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Forbidden Iran

This edition of PBS' international newsmagazine includes a harrowing report from Iran, where reporter Jane Kokan risks her life to secretly film shocking evidence of a government-sponsored reign of terror.  In "Forbidden Iran," Kokan escapes the constant surveillance of the Iranian authorities to record exclusive interviews detailing the systematic torture and execution of students opposed to the current regime.

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On a Razor's Edge

PBS's premier international newsmagazine once again turns its lens on the global community with stories reported by a new generation of talented video journalists that take viewers to countries and cultures rarely covered by the mainstream media.

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The Sex Workers

PBS' international newsmagazine reports on the explosive growth of AIDS in India, where it is projected that some 25 million people will be infected by 2010 if drastic actions aren't taken to stem the spread of the disease.  The program offers viewers a tale of two cities: Bombay, where more than 60 percent of the city's sex workers are infected with HIV; and Calcutta, where a community outreach project has kept the infection rate among sex workers to approximately 10 percent.  Also featured: an intimate portrait of one of the hundreds of Mexican migrants to die each year attempting to cross the U.S. border in search of work; and a visit to Shanghai by night, where an underground art and youth scene is testing the limits of government tolerance.

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Troubled Water FRONTLINE/WORLD returns to its story on a device that uses the energy of children to pump drinking water throughout southern Africa and discovers what has happened to the promises of the PlayPump and its boosters in the five years since its inception.
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Saddam's Road to Hell As Saddam Hussein faces trial, FRONTLINE/WORLD searches for a mass grave in the harsh desert of southern Iraq, telling a story about the country's violent past and its uncertain future.
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Israel: The Unexpected Candidate FRONTLINE/World travels to Israel to take the measure of the man widely considered to be Ariel Sharon's successor - acting prime minister Ehud Olmert.
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Inside Hamas FRONTLINE/World travels across the occupied Palestinian territories to get inside the mindset of Hamas.
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Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies A country that was once a model of independence and Africa's fastest growing economy is now in a treacherous decline of hunger, poverty and fear. FRONTLINE/World chronicles a country trapped in shadows and lies.
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Burma: State of Fear As international pressure mounts on one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world, FRONTLINE/World travels to Burma to expose the unprecedented violence and repression being carried out by the government against its own people.
  • Original10/31/2006
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The Cell Next Door FRONTLINE/World goes inside a terror cell accused of planning mayhem and mass murder in Atlanta and Toronto in summer 2006.
  • Original1/30/2007
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News War: Stories From a Small Planet Tuesday, March 27, 9-10 pm ET
The fourth part of "News War"looks at media around the globe , including the new Arab media and its role in the clash between the West and Islam, and the dangers journalists worldwide face - including death, jail and exile -  to tell their stories.
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Afghanistan: The Other War FRONTLINE/WORLD confronts the reality of the West's struggling campaign in Afghanistan, with exclusive access to the NATO command in Afghanistan and provocative reporting from the front lines in the run up to a major offensive the Taliban has promised this spring.
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After the Wave FRONTLINE/World explores stories in Aceh, Indonesia, the Faroe Islands and Mozambique.
  • Original6/26/2007
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Extraordinary Rendition Tuesday, November 6, 9-10 pm ET
FRONTLINE’s international news magazine returns on PBS' Tuesday night with an investigation into the CIA’s controversial practice of kidnapping terror suspects for interrogation, often in countries where torture is common.
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A World of Good This special edition of FRONTLINE/WORLD offers a look at some remarkable individuals finding ways to do good around the world and also tells an uplifting story of the power of music to transform lives.
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State of Emergency In an exclusive joint project with the Christian Science Monitor , FRONTLINE/WORLD correspondent David Montero ventures into the mountainous Swat Valley where the Pakistani army is fighting Taliban insurgents. Also on the program, correspondent Victoria Gamburg looks at the state of democracy in Russia on the eve of the March 2, 2008, presidential elections.
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Crimes at the Border In a joint project with The New York Times , FRONTLINE/WORLD correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the business of human smuggling across the busy ports of entry between Mexico and the United States.
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Jesus in China As the world spotlight hits China this summer, reporter Evan Osnos goes inside one of the country’s most important, but least understood movements — China’s underground churches.
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Taking on the Mafia FRONTLINE/World relates the story of a group of shop owners and activists who stood up to the powerful Sicilian mafia. Also, the odyssey of several dozen men from their homes in rural China to years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the story of a Brazilian politician who took the name “Barack Obama” for his bid to become his town's first black mayor.
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Children of the Taliban FRONTLINE/World investigates the increasing power and influence of a new branch of the Taliban in Pakistan that is helping make the country one of the Obama administration’s top foreign policy concerns.
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Pakistan Under Siege As a nervous world watches a new branch of the Taliban gain ground in Pakistan, FRONTLINE/WORLD reports from the front lines of, perhaps, the most volatile conflict in the world.
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Digital Dumping Ground Tuesday, June 23, 9-10 pm ET
FRONTLINE/World presents a global investigation into the dirty secret of the digital age — the dumping of hundreds of millions of pounds of electronic waste around the world each year.
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The Carbon Hunters FRONTLINE/World journeys to the Amazon and the remote rainforests of Brazil, where several major American companies are on the hunt for ways to capture an increasingly valuable commodity — carbon — as Congress considers new legislation that would force them to pay for their pollution.
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Troubled Waters FRONTLINE/World revisits one of its own stories, “The Play Pump,” which promised to use a merry-go-round and the power of children to help meet the dire need for fresh water in southern Africa.
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