Juvenile Orangutans (Pongo sp.) climbing up tree and swinging across rope, Borneo

Norman Lear at the Carnegie Mellon: An Evening for the Purnell Center for the Arts at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 4, 1997. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)

Norman Lear (center), Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lions Gate Entertainment (right) and wife at the 'Crash' Los Angeles Premiere on April 26, 2005. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)

William Lear, founder of the Lear Jet company, tells of his plans for a steam driven car and race series.

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2. (With voice over) VS of race track drawings and actual shots of the...

Norman Lear's shows have touched on topics many other shows wouldn't have in their day, like race, gender, sexuality and abortion.

The first elements of a long-delayed UN regional force for South Sudan will start to be deployed next week eventually adding 4,000 peacekeepers to the current 12,000. The announcement was made by the UN's Under-Secretary General for...