We are particularly proud of the company’s long history in developing programming that focuses on critical social, political and environmental challenges. Below are a few examples of what we produced across the company in 2005.

HBO’s Born Into Brothels, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, tells the story of the overcrowded tenements that mark the squalid world of Calcutta’s red-light district through the eyes of children. HBO also created I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me, an insightful family documentary that takes a candid look at the lives of several American children growing up with Tourette’s syndrome. Children of Beslan is an HBO documentary special that tells the story of a harrowing attack by rebel extremists at a school in Russia.

Warner Independent Pictures’ Good Night, and Good Luck chronicles the early days of broadcast journalism in the 1950s, when CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow defied pressures to examine the misdeeds of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy during the communist “witch-hunts.”

Warner Bros. Pictures’ North Country tells the inspiring story of a single mother who fights sexual harassment in the iron mines of Minnesota.

Warner Bros. Animation delivers socially responsible messages in its children’s programming, teaching children about, for example, responsible citizenship and the dangers of smoking.

Turner Broadcasting System created Elfy Food, an original animated series that uses elves to promote good nutrition. Launched in November 2005 in the United Kingdom, the series is supported by an in-school education program.

Time magazine organized a Global Health Summit in November 2005, focusing on such major health problems as AIDS, malaria and TB. Speakers included former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and musician-activist Bono.

CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami went beyond news reporting to help locate victims and reunite families.