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America's only program exclusively devoted to international current affairs documentaries.
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| 1 | VideoCrossing Heaven’s Border: Introduction | North Korean defectors take a life-threatening journey, traveling thousands of miles through China, Laos and Thailand, in the hope of settling as free citizens in South Korea. Intrepid South Korean journalists risk their own lives to capture the action and emotion. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/crossing-heavens-border/introduction/4990/. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoHeart of Jenin: Introduction | When a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, it could have been just one more blip on the news: one more war, one more child, one more human tragedy that ripped the heart out of a family and a community, but rippled no further into the world's consciousness. But something extraordinary happened that turned Ahmed Khatib's tragic 2005 death into a gift of hope for six Israelis whose lives were on the line: while overwhelmed with grief, Ahmed's parents consented to donating their son's organs. Suddenly, amid the violence and entrenched hatred surrounding an intractable conflict, a simple act of humanity rose above the clamor and captured worldwide attention. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/heart-of-jenin/introduction/4991/. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoBirth of a Surgeon: Introduction | Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs Cesarean sections and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique. We follow Cumbane from her home in the Mozambican capital Maputo, into intensive medical classes, through night shifts in the delivery wards, and watch as she fights for recognition of her surgical competence. The 2008 episode was just nominated for an Emmy award. And for the 2009 update, WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown travels to rural Mozambique to meet with Cumbane to see how both she and the program are faring. Cumbane, now the head of the maternal ward, has a two-week-old baby herself, and Brown explores the successes and obstacles she has faced over the last year, as she has tried to juggle her personal and professional commitments, all the while working to help save women's lives. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/birth-of-a-surgeon/introduction/747/. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoThe Market Maker: Introduction | Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-plagued country. But rather than relying on foreign aid or new agricultural technology, she has a truly radical plan. She has designed the nation's first commodities exchange, which she hopes will revolutionize an ancient market system whose inefficiencies have been partly responsible for the country's persistent food shortages. In April 2008 and after more than a decade of planning, the starting bell rang on the trading floor for the first time. Gabre-Madhin has been running frantically ever since. She attempts to maintain the machinery that keeps her country fed while facing powerful special interests, antiquated farming practices, poor infrastructure, and an unpredictable climate. Not to mention a global economic crisis. WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa for The Market Maker, hosted by anchor Aaron Brown, to tell the dramatic, intimate story of a woman on a mission and a world of trouble standing in her way. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoContestant No. 2: Introduction | How far can one young woman push a conservative culture? Duah Fares is an Arab-Israeli teenager and member of the Druze minority, a religious sect living predominantly in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. She longs to be an international superstar like Angelina Jolie. But when she changes her name to Angelina and sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant, her tight-knit religious community balks. Miss Israel requires a bathing suit competition, but to appear that way in public would disgrace her family and even put her in danger from those who would rather see her dead than see the community dishonored. Contestant No. 2 follows Fares and her family as they navigate the boundaries of traditional values while she tries to achieve her dream. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoVictory Is Your Duty: Introduction | WIDE ANGLE gains intimate access to the Havana Boxing Academy on the outskirts of Cuba's capital. There, from the tender age of nine, boys hand-picked as future Olympians are molded into soldiers of the ring. They live and train at the academy with a single purpose: to bring home Olympic gold. Victory Is Your Duty follows the boys' dramatic path over eight months of training, schooling and boarding as they build up to the biggest event of their lives - the annual National Boxing Championships. For the summer 2009 re-broadcast, WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown travels to Miami, Florida, to tell the story of what happens when graduates of Havana's boxing academies grow up - and defect to the United States. The boxers tell of the triumphs and obstacles they faced in Cuba and continue to face as they pursue a professional career in the rough-and-tumble world of American boxing. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoEyes of the Storm: Introduction | On May 2, 2008, a Category 4 cyclone made landfall on Burma's southern coast. Winds of 130 miles per hour raged all night, and storm surge drowned much of the Irrawaddy Delta in over 12 feet of water. Whole villages vanished, at least 130,000 people died, and two million were left homeless, making Cyclone Nargis the worst natural disaster in Burma's history. Among the survivors were thousands of children orphaned or separated from their parents. Eyes of the Storm tells the struggles of several orphaned children left to fend for themselves and rebuild their shattered lives in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoOnce Upon a Coup: Introduction | A failed coup attempt... a British mercenary in a notorious African prison... a dictator suspicious of Western powers... and beneath it all, a spectacular underwater oil reserve that the world's major powers would love to get their hands on. It may sound like the latest John Carré bestseller, but in fact it's the real-life intrigue of Once Upon a Coup, WIDE ANGLE's penetrating look at the mysterious goings-on in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation newly rich with oil and infamous for corruption. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoField Trip to the DMZ: Introduction | WIDE ANGLE'S FOCAL POINT series trains its lens on one of the 15,000 North Korean defectors who have made it to South Korea. Twenty-year-old Haejung (not her real name) was smuggled out of North Korea some years ago in the hope of a better life - leaving her family behind. She now attends Hangyeore High School, a special boarding school an hour outside of Seoul, founded in 2006 to help North Korean teens adjust to life in the South. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/field-trip-to-the-dmz/introduction/4529/. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoChina Prep: Introduction | Twenty years ago the Chinese government massacred a student democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. And chances are that if someone mentions "students in China," that's still the first image that comes to mind. But many of today's students have no time to protest. In this excerpt from our episode, China Prep, meet aspiring lawyers and hedge fund managers who spend almost every minute of the day studying for a college entrance exam that can determine the course of the rest of their lives. Anchor Aaron Brown follows with a discussion about Chinese youth and identity with Vanessa Fong, a Harvard education professor. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/china-prep/introduction/810/. | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoRaise the Last Glass: Introduction | In January 2009, Waterford Crystal went bankrupt. The company's main factory, in Waterford, Ireland, was closed, and 480 people were fired. Many of them had worked there for more than forty years. But the Waterford workers refused to give up their jobs without a fight. They staged a sit-in that lasted for almost two months, demanding that they get their jobs back or, at the very least, that some manufacturing of this iconic brand remain in Ireland. FOCAL POINT's Raise the Last Glass follows two Waterford workers as they fight to save both their jobs and a bit of Irish heritage. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/raise-the-last-glass/introduction/4905/. | 1/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoTime for School Series: Podcast Part 2 | WIDE ANGLE's unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. Clip followed by Aaron Brown's interview with West African singer Angelique Kidjo. | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoTime for School Series: Introduction | WIDE ANGLE's unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoPakistan at the Polls: Video: Vote for Benazir’s Blood | Abida Hussain is a notoriously sharp-tongued politician with gray hair and a smoker's raspy voice who is running for parliament in Punjab, Pakistan - against her own cousin. The two rivals come from a powerful landowning family that has controlled the region for generations, and both have held the office before. This time, her cousin is favored to win, but Hussain has hope - she's signed on to the party of another famous dynastic politician, Benazir Bhutto. It's just a few weeks after Bhutto was assassinated, and candidates associated with her party are expected to benefit from the sympathy vote. | 3/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burning Season: Audio: Carbon Entrepreneurs | In this WIDE ANGLE web exclusive, we’ll hear from three different carbon entrepreneurs from around the world, each with his own plan for using market forces to protect the environment | 7/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Birth of a Surgeon: Audio: Public Health Experts on Maternal Death | WIDE ANGLE sat down with Lynn Freedman and Helen de Pinho from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. They work with developing countries and international agencies to improve availability and quality of emergency obstetric care for women in childbirth. Click below to listen to a discussion about the causes of maternal death, the importance of maternal health and the progress that is being made in Mozambique and around the world now that this issue is on the international development agenda. [MEDIA=250] Lynn Freedman is a human rights attorney and the Director of AMDD, Averting Maternal Death and Disability. Helen de Pinho is a physician from South Africa who works with AMDD. She recently traveled to Mozambique to meet with mid-level medical providers there. EXPERT INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: LYNN FREEDMAN AND HELEN de PINHO LYNN FREEDMAN: Women everywhere in the world who die in childbirth die from basically the same set of causes. Mostly direct obstetric causes—things like bleeding, or hemorrhaging, infection, obstructed labor. We know the medical interventions that will save a woman’s life if she has one of those complications. The big, big issue is getting those medical interventions to the women who need them, and so that’s where the big challenge comes in—ensuring that women in remote rural areas, women who perhaps don’t have the money to get to a facility much less get into the facility, pay for the services. To make sure women in that position get access to life-saving care. There’s no question that the current number of surgeons and surgical technicians in Mozambique cannot meet the enormous need for emergency obstetric care. HELEN DE PINHO: There are 26 obstetricians in Mozambique. Fourteen of them are in the central hospital in Maputo, and I think only about three or four or five are actually out in the rural area, so that gives you an idea of distribution and numbers. And a similar kind of distribution pattern for surgeons in Mozambique. The role of the non-physician clinician has always been there in many of these countries; that’s not new. The surgical midwife, yes, that is new. And that will change, but what that would do is strengthen what’s already happening. It doesn’t shift…it doesn’t displace doctors in any way, because they’re just simply not there. WIDE ANGLE: Lynn, you mentioned that there’s this new energy about addressing maternal mortality. Can you speak about this new energy, where it’s come from, and why now? LYNN FREEDMAN: Well, I think maternal mortality has…has certainly risen to the top of the development agenda, helped enormously by the fact that it is one of the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals are a set of eight goals that the U.N. general assembly passed at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000 to guide poverty reduction efforts in the world in the coming millennium, or at least the coming 15 years. But they also include three health goals. One is HIV, TB and Malaria. Another is to reduce child mortality. And MDG 5 is to improve maternal health with two goals: one is to reduce maternal mortality by 75% and the second target under improved maternal health is to have universal access to reproductive health services. So that has put maternal mortality itself on the health and development agenda. HELEN DE PINHO: …if I can just talk to what’s happening in Mozambique at that. What we see is first of all very high-level commitment to reducing maternal mortality. And then also to—recognizing the sort of continuum of care, from when the woman first becomes pregnant or even before she comes pregnant, to make sure that –that young girls are adequately fed, that—that they are nutritionally well—well-nourished. That there is family planning accessible. The policies are good, they’re there. And now it’s a matter of actually getting them implemented in all the areas. | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Japan’s About-Face: Audio: The U.S.-Japan Alliance | WIDE ANGLE recently spoke with Richard J. Samuels, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Japan Program and author of Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Samuels traces the formation of the strategic U.S.-Japanese alliance, and discusses the potential of a more militarily-independent Japan. | 7/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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