60 MINUTES

Spanning 1997 – 2025, the 60 MINUTES content includes hundreds of segments not available anywhere else. True to 60 MINUTES’ style, each news segment serves as a standalone short documentary on a specific news topic and provides students, faculty, and researchers with access to news coverage, investigative reporting, and feature segments of the most important global issues of our time. You’ll also find content from the popular CBS News program Sunday Morning, providing timely news pieces, cultural features, and newsmaker profiles and segments from 60 MINUTES II spanning 1999-2005, for even more comprehensive historical coverage.

60 MINUTES delivers reporting from acclaimed journalists including Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper, Lesley Stahl, Morley Safer, Lara Logan, Steve Kroft, Bob Simon, and others. Reports cover a broad swath of contemporary topics and issues, with segments including:

• "The Islamic State"
• “Sheryl Sandberg”
• “Killing Bin Laden”
• “Treating Depression”
• “Brazil”
• “130 Million Tons of Waste”
• “Watching the Border”
• “Screening the TSA”
• “401K Recession”
• “War Against Women”
• “Deepwater”
• “Justice at Guantanamo”
• “American Identities For Sale”

CBS News Archive

This unique content provides nearly six decades of flagship news programming granting unprecedented access to CBS News archives from 1950s-2010s, including programs never before available for distribution since their original broadcast dates. This content provides an unparalleled look at American and World History events, as they were originally reported and delivers coverage from 7 flagship programs (Face the Nation, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Brooklyn DA, Eye on America, The FBI Declassified, The Vietnam War, and Whistleblower).

These original programs include panelists and guest speakers from the world’s most historic events, as they unfolded in real-time. Highlights include:

• Joseph McCarthy
• JFK
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Fidel Castro
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Che Guevara
• President Sukarno
• Richard Nixon
• Arthur Ashe
• Ronald Reagan
• Yasser Arafat
• Henry Kissinger
• Margaret Thatcher
• Gore Vidal
• Lech Walesa
• Anwar Sadat

Global events discussed include: 

• Cuban Revolution
• Vietnam War
• Change of leadership in Indonesia
• Assassination of JFK
• U.S. presidential elections
• Apollo 11
• Watergate Scandal
• Conflicts in the Middle East
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Iranian Hostage Crisis
• And much more

Product details

• Includes 5,700+ videos
• Accessed on the Alexander Street video platform
• Worldwide rights available
• For Academic, public, government and school libraries
• Rarity of source material means that there will be some gaps in the collection.