About this season
The Final Report is a 2006 National Geographic Channel documentary television series about various historical events that occurred between the early 1970s and the 2000s.
Episodes (7)
1. Blackhawk Down
Aired 22 January 2007 • 60 min
Somali people armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades ambush the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force, leaving 18 Americans dead and 84 wounded.
2. Standoff at Ruby Ridge
Aired 13 March 2007 • 60 min
On a remote ridge in northern Idaho, a surveillance operation leads to a military-like siege on the home of Randy Weaver. After an 11-day standoff, three people are dead: a federal agent, Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son.
3. OJ Simpson Trial
Aired 13 March 2007 • 60 min
The criminal justice system, legal strategies, racial politics and LA police methods behind the infamous court case.
4. Bombing Over Lockerbie
Aired 27 March 2007 • 60 min
Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone on board. Follow the miniscule pieces of evidence that lead detectives to the African nation of Libya.
5. Columbine
Aired 3 April 2007 • 60 min
In 1999 two teenage boys go on a shooting rampage at their high school, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 24 others before committing suicide.
6. Watergate
Aired 10 April 2007 • 60 min
A political scandal ultimately leads to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
7. The Clinton Impeachment
Aired 1 May 2007 • 60 min
The Final Report explores the scandal that threatened to bring down President William Jefferson Clinton. In 1998, Clinton was accused of lying in federal court about a sexual relationship with a 22-year-old White House intern. An investigation by the Office of the Independent Counsel and a bitter partisan fight followed. Clinton was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, becaming the second president in American history to be impeached. The Final Report investigates this historic impeachment, revealing how Clinton remained in office and assessing the aftermath of the protracted political battle.