The company's catalog contains hundreds of titles including the Peabody Award-winning children's program Classical Baby, provocative programs from HBO Documentary Films including When the Levees Broke, innovative movies from HBO Films including Temple Grandin, and comedy specials featuring stand-up performers like Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais.

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Holliman played a critical role in the CNN coverage of the Persian Gulf crisis, which won numerous awards, including a Nationa Headliner Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and a Golden Microphone.

CNN: The View from Space

The only writer to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award and George Polk Award, she is currently at work on a book examining the global impact of infectious diseases.

FORBES: Laurie Garrett

Hilary Andersson's report won a Royal Television Society award and George Peabody award as part of the BBC's overall coverage of the crisis.

BBC: Panorama's recent awards

From Academy Award nominations ( 5 Broken Cameras and The Gatekeepers) to top prizes at Sundance ( The Law in These Parts) to a Peabody Award ( My Neighbourhood, which I co-directed with Rebekah Wingert-Jabi), films on this issue are clearly in the midst of an exciting period of recognition and success.

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CNN.com's companion site for the CNN documentary series Cold War was the first Web site recognized as part of a Peabody Award.

CNN: The future is now

O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami.

CNN: Anchors & Reporters

Social housing developments are even winning awards in competition with private sector developments the Peabody Trust's Bedzed development in Surrey won the Evening Standard Lifestyle Home of the Year award though it is worth remembering that some of the most notorious 1960s and 1970s council housing estates also won design awards.

ECONOMIST: Social housing