Mo Rocca

Ratings are down for Dale Sweeney (David Alan Basche), host of the conspiracy-themed radio show 'Hey, I'll Believe You,' but his luck turns when he gets a strange on-air call in a possibly alien language. FBI agents and UFO sightings soon follow. A hilarious supporting cast including Patrick Warburton, Chris Elliott, Ed Helms, Mo Rocca and Fred Willard elicits big laughs in this sci-fi comedy by director and co-writer Paul Francis Sullivan.

Considered one of the best actors working today, Philip Seymour Hoffman has played a diverse set of characters, including the effete author Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar. Mo Rocca talks with the actor, now on Broadway and nominated for a Tony for Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."

Mo Rocca spoke to some of the residents of Okracoke Island to hear their distinctive accent - the Okracoke brogue.

Regional accents seem to be merging, creating a more standard "American" accent, instead of a New York accent, Midwest accent, etc. Mo Rocca reports on what's happening to accents in the U.S.

The French emperor Napoleon was exiled to a tiny island off the coast of Italy, and during his time there he helped modernize it. Mo Rocca reports on how Napoleon wound up on Elba - and how he plotted his escape.

Garden Key in Florida's Dry Tortugas would be pretty unremarkable if it weren't for Fort Jefferson. Mo Rocca visits the 19th century military installation complete with 45-foot walls and a moat.

The covers of The New Yorker magazine during its first half-century tended to be humorous or sentimental scenes. But for the nearly 20 years since Francoise Mouly became art editor, the covers have become political, edgy and controversial. Correspondent Mo Rocca uncovers the covers.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Season 1: Episode 6 -- The central character in the programme is a female Tyrannosaur that is trying to raise a new brood of chicks. Soon after they hatch, a large meteor strikes the Earth, destroying the ecosystem and the species.

No fooling - it's April 1st, which means we should be extra skeptical about everything today. But correspondent Mo Rocca says with technology letting mis-information and myths spread so quickly, being skeptical is good advice every day.

You may know them as gloves, scarves and sweaters, but you may not know them as a job - an entire business has grown up around alpacas, some lovable creatures from South America. Correspondent Mo Rocca pays these cute animals a visit.

Harvard University is known for its high academic standards, but correspondent Mo Rocca examines one of the Ivy League school's most hallowed traditions: The Annual Hasty Pudding Show, where men are men, and women are . . . also men.

The Oreo is the most most-loved, most-consumed cookie in the world. Mo Rocca tells the history of the chocolate sandwich treat, its aesthetic, and some of its other modern-day uses.