CNN Interactive's COLD WAR Web site has won numerous honors, including a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award.

The COLD WAR television series and online companion won a 1998 Peabody for Multi-Part Series, with award administrators noting that the 24-episode documentary "is the first Peabody winner to make extensive use of an Internet site." The judges noted that the series and Web site are "destined to become the definitive record of this era in global history."

The COLD WAR Web site also was named winner of three other awards: a 1998 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Journalism, a 1999 Interactive Entertainment Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and a 1999 Interactive Achievement Award (as News/Information Site of the Year) by the American Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

Sigma Delta Chi awards, administered by the Society of Professional Journalists, recognize excellence in journalism and are among the oldest and most prestigious awards in American journalism.

In its announcement, SPJ judges said the site "expands a television documentary to create the most thorough and multimedia-rich record of Cold War history available online."

Judges for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts declared the Cold War Web site "a major achievement."

The American Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' annual Interactive Achievement Awards recognize outstanding work in the interactive arts. Other nominees in the News/Information category included Washingtonpost/Newsweek Interactive, The New York Times online, Chicago Tribune Interactive and The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.

The COLD WAR television series also has won international honors. The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television in the United Kingdom cited the series with the Archive Award for best use of archive footage in 1998. And the RIAS Berlin Commission named COLD WAR the recipient of the Special Jury Award for "contributing significantly to the mutual understanding between the people of the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America."