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In 2016, Bill Whitaker sat down with Denzel Washington to discuss his role as both director and lead actor in the film adaptation of August Wilson's "Fences," a performance which earned him an Oscar nomination.
The Ritchie Boys were a secret U.S. intelligence unit who fought in World War II. Many were German-born Jews who fled their homeland before being sent back to Europe to fight Nazism. Jon Wertheim shared their little-known story in 2022.
In 2021, Scott Pelley reported on the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising that began the country's civil war, and the efforts to hold then President Bashar al-Assad and his regime accountable for war crimes perpetrated in their country.
In 2014, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon spoke to a small group of Syrian filmmakers who documented how a peaceful struggle for basic freedoms in the city of Homs turned into violent resistance against Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime. Ten years later, the shattered city of Homs was liberated.
In 2002, Ed Bradley spoke with actress Judi Dench, then 67, about her life and career. Despite having worked steadily for over 40 years, at the time Dench told Bradley that she still feared never getting another job.
In 2012, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, on assignment for 60 Minutes, profiled Sal Khan and his website "Khan Academy," which he hoped would transform education. At the time the digital lessons reached more than four million students each month.
In 1979, 60 Minutes' Morley Safer profiled powerful attorney Roy Cohn, former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy and one of the authors of McCarthyism.
In April 2023, 60 Minutes visited Notre Dame to report on the reconstruction effort four years after a devastating fire. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who led the initial effort to reconstruct the cathedral and showed Bill Whitaker the location where the spire collapsed, died in August 2023, while hiking in the French Pyrenees.
In 2015, Lesley Stahl traveled to Kenya, where a "mobile money" revolution was sweeping the country. Kenyans were sending and receiving money on their cell phones through the platform M-Pesa, which improved commerce and brought basic necessities to poorer areas.
Morley Safer met Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in New York City back in 2016, when the 41-year-old was handling over 60 major projects including Lego's new headquarters and a building for Google. At the time he was also involved in designing Two World Trade Center.
