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Time for School 3 The third installment of the series that spotlights the global crisis in access to basic education.
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18 With a Bullet (update) A chilling portrait of six months in the life of a notorious Central-American gang.
  • Original7/11/2006
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Mixed Blessings Ireland's dramatic transformation from a land of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddily flush society.
  • Original7/18/2006
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Class of 2006 WIDE ANGLE's cameras are on location in Morocco as history is made - the graduation class at an imam school includes 50 women.
  • Original7/25/2006
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Flying Down to Kabul Danish artist and pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern vows to help a 16-year-old Afghan girl realize her dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
  • Original8/1/2006
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Turkey's Tigers This program captures a modern, unexpected face of Islam unseen in American media.
  • Original8/22/2006
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Ransom City Kidnapping is big business in Brazil.
  • Original8/29/2006
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Back to School The second installment in the multi-year documentary project that follows children in seven countries to update their progress in school.
  • Original9/5/2006
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Democracy in the Rough WIDE ANGLE is on the ground as the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation reeling from decades of dictatorship and a civil war that left more than four million dead, holds its first elections in 45 years. 
  • Original9/12/2006
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The People's Court Tuesday, July 3, 9-10 pm ET
In its season premiere, WIDE ANGLE takes viewers inside the courtrooms and law schools of China to provide a character-driven look at China's epic experiment to embrace the "rule of law."  

  • Original7/3/2007
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Victory Is Your Duty The legendary Havana Boxing Academy opened its doors to a foreign film crew for the first time ever. 
  • Original7/10/2007
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The Sand Castle The United Arab Emirates is reinventing itself, and Ras al-Khaimah, the northern emirate, wants a piece of the future.
  • Original7/24/2007
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Dishing Democracy This program goes behind the scenes at Arabic television channel MBC in Cairo and its hit all-female talk show, "Kalam Nawaem."
  • Original7/31/2007
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Gaza E.R.

In July 2006, seven months after the militant movement Hamas'landslide election victories, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip became a battlefield.

  • Original8/14/2007
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Gold Futures In the heart of Transylvania, mineral wealth and badly needed jobs compete with time-honored rural traditions and concerns about poisoning the environment.
  • Original8/21/2007
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The Dying Fields A tragedy is unfolding in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha in central India.
  • Original8/28/2007
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Brazil in Black and White New affirmative action quotas in Brazil, one of the world's most racially diverse nations, launch a controversial dialogue about race and identity.
  • Original9/4/2007
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A Woman Among Warlords

This episode follows the parliamentary campaign of 28-year-old Malalai Joya, who became one of Afghanistan's most famous - and infamous - women in 2003.

  • Original9/11/2007
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Heart of Darfur Tuesday, July 1, 9-10 pm ET
WIDE ANGLE's season premiere presents an account of what the U.N. Secretary-General has called “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”
  • Original7/1/2008
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Japan's About Face A remarkable view of the Japanese military's shifting role in post-war Japanese society.
  • Original7/8/2008
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Birth of a Surgeon

Updated episode: In Mozambique, where doctors are in short supply, a bold grassroots initiative is training midwives in advanced life-saving surgery.

News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination





  • Original7/15/2008
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Burning Season The devastation of Indonesia’s forests has helped to make it the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide; a 29-year-old Australian green entrepreneur thinks he has a solution.
  • Original7/22/2008
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Episode #704 Episode TBA.
  • Original7/22/2008
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Lord's Children Three children kidnapped by Uganda’s anti-government rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and forced to commit atrocities, escape and take refuge in a rehabilitation center.
  • Original7/29/2008
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China Prep Follows five Chinese students through their final high-pressure year at an elite high school in Sichuan Province, where a class of 1,800 teenagers is competing for 59 spots in China’s top two universities.
  • Original8/12/2008
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Iraqi Exodus WIDE ANGLE reports from the frontlines of the staggering refugee crisis that is unfolding in the Middle East as Iraqis flee their war-torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 people per month.
  • Original8/19/2008
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Crossing Heaven’s Border

Eighth season premiere, Wednesday, July 1, 10-11 pm ET
North Korean defectors risk their lives to settle in South Korea; South Korean journalists use hidden cameras to capture their journeys.

  • Original7/1/2009
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Heart of Jenin The death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, killed by Israeli soldiers, turns into a gift of hope for Israeli children: Ahmed Khatib’s parents consent to donating their son’s organs.
  • Original7/8/2009
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The Market Maker An Ethiopian economist seeks a market-based solution to end hunger in her famine-plagued country, but a world financial crisis is getting in the way.
  • Original7/22/2009
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Contestant No. 2 An Arab-Israeli teenager, a member of the Druze minority, pursues her dream of superstardom despite the resistance of her tight-knit religious community.
  • Original7/29/2009
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Eyes of the Storm The struggles of several orphaned children left to fend for themselves and rebuild their shattered lives in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma.
  • Original8/19/2009
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Once Upon a Coup A penetrating look at the mysterious goings-on in the tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea and an international plot to control that country’s vast oil resources.

  • Original8/26/2009
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