
And the winners are:
- Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was
Radio Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., for Public Radio International
- Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
Sound Portrait Productions, New York, for National Public Radio
- This American Life
WBEZ-FM, Chicago
- Kinetic City Super Crew
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
- Peter Gzowski
CBC Radio, Toronto--a personal Peabody Award
- Who's Guarding the Guardians?
WCVB-TV, Boston
- Newsnight--Afghanistan
BBC News, London
- Passport to Kill
WNBC-TV, New York
- Vote for Me: Politics in America
Center for New American Media, Midnight Films and WETA-TV, Washington, D.C.
- The Celluloid Closet
Telling Pictures, HBO, Channel 4, London, and ZDFArté (Germany/France)
- Frontline: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Long Bow Group Inc. and Independent Television Service for Frontline/WGBH-TV, Boston
- People's Century
BBC, London, and WGBH-TV, Boston
- Frontline: The Choice '96
Frontline/WGBH-TV, Boston, and Helen Whitney Productions
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
HBO, Creative Thinking International Ltd., New York
- Local television programming ("War on Children" and "Earth Agenda: Power of Bears, The Return of the Eagle, and Lolita: Spirit in the Water")
KOMO-TV, Seattle
- NOVA: Odyssey of Life
NOVA/WGBH-TV, Boston; Agaton Film and Television; Swedish Television, SVT1; ZDF-Arté (Germany/France); and Channel 4, London
- The American Experience: The Battle over Citizen Kane
The American Experience and Lennon Documentary Group/WGBH-TV, Boston
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
KCET-TV, Los Angeles, and BBC, London
- Survivors of the Holocaust
Turner Entertainment Group, Atlanta, and Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- The X-Files
Fox, Ten Thirteen Productions in association with Twentieth Television
- Journey of the African-
American Athlete
Home Box Office Sports, New York
- Law & Order
NBC, Wolf Films in association with Universal Television
- Pride and Prejudice
A&E Television Networks and BBC, London
- The Simpsons
Fox, Gracie Films, Los Angeles, in association with Twentieth Television
- NYPD Blue
ABC, Steven Bochco Productions
- Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's "House of Cards," "To Play the King" and "The Final Cut"
BBC, London, and WGBH-TV, Boston
- How Do You Spell God?
Home Box Office, New York
- Wise Up!
Carlton Television for Channel 4, London
- Edith Ann's Christmas
ABC, Tomlin and Wagner Theatricalz, Kurtz & Friends, Los Angeles
- One to One: Mentoring
WCCO-TV, Minneapolis
- Bud Greenspan
A personal Peabody Award