CNBC Originals

Inside America's Most Powerful Company.

In an unprecedented event, CNBC cameras go behind-the-scenes at McDonald's-- the world's largest and most successful food service business. During the program, CNBC takes viewers to McDonald's headquarters, test kitchens and labs, providing a close look at the immense testing and research behind every product. CNBC travels to China where McDonald's currently has 780 restaurants and is moving aggressively to expand and eclipse rival Yum Brands, which owns KFC and Pizza Hut. CNBC explores the highly-debated criticism McDonald's has received regarding its contribution to obesity in Americans. CNBC profiles one McDonald's store introducing its owner/franchisee, managers, employees and customers. Each of the 30,000 stores contributes to McDonald's bottom line. As you will see, running a McDonald's store is more than just flipping burgers.

Examination of a city trying to rebuild and the heroic efforts of big and small business working together. But on question remains, will the levees hold Against the Tide?

Alan Greenspan,former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, talks about making some of the difficult decisions that shaped our economy.

Travel to China and South Korea with the world's third richest man, one of the great investor's rare trips from his home in Omaha. On CNBC's "Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door Going Global," hosted by CNBC's Becky Quick, hear how his Berkshire Hathaway is expanding internationally and what he's learned from being in the Far East. See what its like to travel with the Oracle first-hand.

Levi Strauss & Co. is an American icon that has swept the globe. In this CNBC one-hour special, "American Originals: Levi's," CNBC goes behind the scenes at Levi Strauss & Co. to talk to its CEO, designers and historian about the qualities that made Levi's into the king of denim, the designer jean wars that put the company into a financial slump and the new partnerships and lines the company is trying out to get back on the comeback trail. In the special, CNBC also talks to a vintage jeans expert about the value of vintage Levis to see if you have a fortune in your closet.

The documentary examines the biggest stock market crash in the nation's history told by the people who were there: the traders, the reporters who covered the crash, and the power brokers including Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1987, John Phelan, former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and Leo Melamed, legendary trader and former head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

From Warren Buffett’s bodyguard to a high-tech panic room in a Hollywood mansion and on board a mega yacht in Miami, CNBC goes behind the scenes with the men and women who protect the super-rich. These are nervous times for billionaires around the globe and an entire industry is on call ready to sell the ultra-rich super security. CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports.