60 Minutes - Season 44
Run Time: 44 mins
Air Date: Sun, 25 Sept 2011
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.591 (77 votes)
CBS53 Episodes
NYPD's Counterterrorism Unit; Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Season 44 - Episode 1
New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit; the murder of a neo-nazi leader; "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Otsuchi, Japan; Alex Honnold; Andy Rooney
Season 44 - Episode 2
Bob Simon reports on the relationship between Otsuchi, Japan, and its "sister city" Fort Bragg, Cal.; Lara Logan profiles rock climber Alex ...
Jeffery Immelt; the Egyptian military
Season 44 - Episode 3
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt discusses creating jobs in the U.S. Also: a report on the treatment of Egyptian citizens by the country'...
Gen. John Allen; Vincent van Gogh
Season 44 - Episode 4
Scott Pelley interviews Marine Corps Gen. John Allen about the war in Afghanistan; Morley Safer interviews authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory...
Steve Jobs; Apps for Autistic people
Season 44 - Episode 5
Author Walter Isaacson discusses his biography of Steve Jobs and reveals that Jobs refused early and potentially lifesaving surgery after le...
Madoffs/All American
Season 44 - Episode 6
Madoffs - In their first interview about the crimes of Bernard Madoff, the son and the wife of the man who scammed billions of dollars provi...
A Lobbyist's Playbook, Operation Proper Exit, Andy Rooney
Season 44 - Episode 7
A Lobbyist's Playbook - Jack Abramoff, the ex-lobbyist and now ex-convict at the center of the biggest Washington corruption scandal in deca...
Insiders/Taser/Freeman Hrabowski
Season 44 - Episode 8
Insiders - Steve Kroft reports on how America's lawmakers can legally buy stock based on non-public information. Taser - The non-lethal dev...
Christine Lagarde, The Pledge, Taylor Swift
Season 44 - Episode 9
Christine Lagarde - Thrust into the breach during one of the worst economic crises in decades, Christine Lagarde, the new head of the Intern...
Hard Times Generation, The Flavorists, Angelina
Season 44 - Episode 10
Hard Times Generation - Scott Pelley brings "60 Minutes" cameras back to Central Florida to document another level of homelessness - kids an...
Prosecuting Wall Street/Michael Buble
Season 44 - Episode 11
Prosecuting Wall Street - Two whistleblowers tell Steve Kroft that their warnings about fraudulent and substandard mortgages were ignored by...
President Obama, Howard Buffett
Season 44 - Episode 12
President Obama - Steve Kroft questions the president on a wide range of critical topics, including his performance in office, the U.S. econ...
The Majority Leader, The Gardens of the Queen, Meryl Streep
Season 44 - Episode 13
The Majority Leader - Lesley Stahl questions House Majority Leader Eric Cantor about the partisan politics that are holding up legislation a...
The Library, Mount Athos
Season 44 - Episode 14
This special Christmas edition of 60 Minutes features two segments from previous programs. From April 10, 2011, Morley Safer tours the Vati...
The Majority Leader, The Perfect Score, The ascent of Alex Honnold
Season 44 - Episode 15
Lesley Stahl profiles House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Then, Sam Eshaghoff tells how he was able to take the SAT and ACT college admission...
Stem cell treatments, Brothers in the Marines, Truffles
Season 44 - Episode 16
The Internet is full of websites selling unproven stem cell treatments for incurable illnesses, Marines call each other "brother," but in th...
Groupon, Qatar, Jake
Season 44 - Episode 17
Groupon - In his first major interview since taking the multibillion dollar Internet company public late last year, the founder and CEO of o...
Wildebeest Migration, Elephant Dictionary, Jane Goodall
Season 44 - Episode 18
Scott Pelley visits Kenya to observe the great wildebeest migration; Bob Simon reports on the compilation of an elephant dictionary in Centr...
Leon Panetta, Roger Goodell, Big Game Species in US
Season 44 - Episode 19
Scott Pelley interviews Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Steve Kroft profiles NFL commissioner Roger Goodell; Lara Logan reports on breedi...
Dolly Parton, Anna Wintour, Meryl Streep
Season 44 - Episode 20
Morley Safer profiles three famous ladies. From June 7, 2009 - Dolly Parton - An interview with Dolly Parton concerning her life, musical c...
Deception at Duke, India's Gold, The year of Adele
Season 44 - Episode 21
Deception at Duke - Scott Pelley reports on a Duke University oncologist whose supervisor says he manipulated the data in his study of a bre...
Trapped in Unemployment, Treating Depression, The Mozart of Chess
Season 44 - Episode 22
Trapped in Unemployment - As the number of Americans without work for a year or two rises into the millions, Scott Pelley reports on a progr...
Going to Extremes
Season 44 - Episode 23
From October 11, 2009: The Birdmen (Steve Kroft) - Steve Kroft reports on the latest extreme adventurer craze: men donning wing suits and ju...
Stuxnet, The Archbishop of Dublin, Redshirting
Season 44 - Episode 24
Stuxnet - The sophisticated computer worm that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program is now out there, its idea and methods exposed to terrorists...
The Spymaster Speaks, Teacher to the World, Aerosmith
Season 44 - Episode 25
The Spymaster Speaks - While the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran becomes an election year issue, the former head of Israel's intelligenc...
SpaceX, Face Blindness
Season 44 - Episode 26
SpaceX - Elon Musk was the first private citizen to launch a space vehicle into orbit and bring it back to Earth. Now, the founder of SpaceX...
Resurrecting Chrysler, Evidence of Innocence, Novak Djokovic
Season 44 - Episode 27
Resurrecting Chrysler - Just a few years ago, Chrysler was in chapter 11, its future bleak. Now, with a new leader in Sergio Marchionne and ...
Hard Landing, Sugar, Art Market
Season 44 - Episode 28
Hard Landing - Seven thousand employees of the Kennedy Space Center lost their jobs when the final Space Shuttle was launched last July, a l...
An Imperfect Union, The Sport of Kings, Joy in the Congo
Season 44 - Episode 29
An Imperfect Union - Steve Kroft reports on the debt crisis in Europe, where weaker members of the European Union struggle to pay debt and t...
Mike Wallace
Season 44 - Episode 30
Mike Wallace: "60 Minutes" will devote its entire hour to its beloved colleague and founding correspondent, Mike Wallace, who died on April ...
The Case Against Lehman, Christians of the Holy Land, The Trouble with Treasure
Season 44 - Episode 31
The Case Against Lehman - Steve Kroft talks to the bank examiner whose investigation reveals the how and why of the spectacular financial co...
Hard Measures, Hooked
Season 44 - Episode 32
Hard Measures - The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, talks to Lesley Stahl about the "enhanced interrogation te...
The Raptor, Cleaning Up Whitley County, Michael Phelps
Season 44 - Episode 33
The Raptor - Two pilots who refuse to fly the nation's top fighter jet because of safety and health concerns risk their wings to become mili...
Hank, The Gulen Movement, The Role of a Lifetime
Season 44 - Episode 34
Hank - Legendary retired covert CIA Officer Henry "Hank" Crumpton tells his spy stories to Lara Logan, including his role in the early war i...
Dropping Out, Hard Cases, Roger Waters
Season 44 - Episode 35
Dropping Out - A billionaire's program to pay students with promising ideas to drop out of college is attracting students and critics. Inter...
Final Resting Place, Tel Aviv, The Many Meryls
Season 44 - Episode 36
An interview with former marine Dakota Meyer upon receiving the Medal of Honor; profiles of five sets of brothers who fought to do battle to...
Elon Musk, Jeff Hall and the NSM, Angelina Jolie
Season 44 - Episode 37
Scott Pelley interviews SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who discusses private space travel; Lesley Stahl investigates the murder of a neo-Nazi and a g...
Leon Panetta, Texas Safaris, Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Season 44 - Episode 38
Scott Pelley interviews Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Lara Logan reports on breeding and hunting big-game species in the U.S.; Steve Kr...
Insiders, Freeman Hrabowski, Taylor Swift
Season 44 - Episode 39
Steve Kroft reports on how U.S. lawmakers legally buy stock based on nonpublic information; Byron Pitts profiles Freeman Hrabowski, presiden...
Greg Mortenson, Howard Buffett, Novak Djokovic
Season 44 - Episode 40
An investigation into the validity of humanitarian Greg Mortenson's best-selling stories. Also: Howard Buffett, who will succeed his father,...
Stuxnet, Qatar, The Most Expensive Food in the World
Season 44 - Episode 41
Steve Kroft examines the computer worm Stuxnet; Bob Simon visits Qatar; Lesley Stahl reports on the black-market trade of pricey white truff...
A Lobbyist's Playbook, Redshirting, The Mozart of Chess
Season 44 - Episode 42
Lesley Stahl interviews former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Morley Safer reports on the rising incidence of "redshirting," in which ch...
Steve Jobs, Apps for Autism
Season 44 - Episode 43
Author Walter Isaacson discusses his biography of Steve Jobs. Also: a report on apps designed to help people with autism communicate.
Evidence of Innocence, India's Gold, Michael Phelps
Season 44 - Episode 44
Lara Logan interviews Michael Morton, who spent nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit; Byron Pitts reports on the demand f...
Hard Times Generation, The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
Season 44 - Episode 45
A report on homelessness in central Florida. Also: the life and death of Vincent van Gogh is discussed with biographers, who say that the wi...
Sugar, Face Blindness
Season 44 - Episode 46
Sanjay Gupta investigates whether or not sugar is toxic; Lesley Stahl reports on face blindness, a condition that prevents people from recog...
Romney Ryan, Trapped in Unemployment, Joy in the Congo
Season 44 - Episode 47
Scott Pelley examines a program designed to help long-term unemployed workers get back into the job force; Morley Safer reports on artificia...
The Case Against Lehman Brothers, The Archbishop of Dublin, Aerosmith
Season 44 - Episode 48
The financial collapse of Lehman Brothers is studied via a conversation with a bank examiner who investigated the financial-service firm. Al...
The Pledge, Stem Cell Fraud, The Sport of Kings
Season 44 - Episode 49
"The Pledge" rebroadcasts a profile of conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist. "Stem Cell Fraud" rebroadcasts an investigation into ...
Resurrecting Chrysler, The Flavorists, Teacher to the World
Season 44 - Episode 50
"Resurrecting Chrysler" rebroadcasts a segment on the revitalization of the automaker. "The Flavorists" rebroadcasts a segment on the people...
Killing Bin Laden
Season 44 - Episode 51
Scott Pelley interviews a former SEAL who was part of the team that assassinated Osama bin Laden.
The Spymaster Speaks, The Player, The Year of Adele
Season 44 - Episode 52
"The Spymaster Speaks" rebroadcasts an interview with the former head of Israel's intelligence service. "The Player" rebroadcasts a profile ...
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Season 44 - Episode 53
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are interviewed.