BBC World Service Documentaries: President Barack Obama
Last updated: 26 january, 2011 - 10:58 GMT
In this two-part series, Simon Schama examines some of the daunting challenges facing Barack Obama - both on the world stage and at home. He begins by considering strategies for the inherited Afghan war.
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Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon, meeting people who think his presidency is nothing but bad news.
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From hospital emergency rooms to congressional committees, Michael Goldfarb follows the progress of President Obama's mission to reform America's healthcare system.
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During his campaign to become Commander in Chief, Barack Obama pledged to adapt "US military capabilities for current, not Cold War needs." Can he reform the Pentagon?
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Jon Manel explores how President Barack Obama went about trying to close the world's most controversial prison camp, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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President Barack Obama has famously written of the influence exerted on him by his father in his memoir Dreams of My Father, but what of his mother, Ann Dunham?
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In a USA fronted by its first black leader, what are the future battlegrounds for African American human rights and its oldest - and largest - black civil rights group?
