Wide Angle
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Episodes
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Time for School Series: Full Episode: Time for School 3
aired: Thu, Sep 10, 2009
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Time for School Series: Time for School Series: Full Episode: Time for School 3 (Part 2)
aired: Thu, Sep 10, 2009
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Once Upon a Coup: Full Episode
aired: Thu, Aug 27, 2009
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Eyes of the Storm: Full Episode
aired: Thu, Aug 20, 2009
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Contestant No. 2: Full Episode
aired: Thu, Jul 30, 2009
When an Arab-Israeli teenager and member of the Druze religion sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant, her tight-knit community balks.
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The Market Maker: Full Episode
aired: Tue, Jul 28, 2009
WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa to tell the dramatic story of an Ethiopian economist on a mission. Seeking a market-based solution to ending hunger in her famine-plagued country, she creates Ethiopia's first commodities exchange. What she didn't count on was a world financial crisis getting in the way. [cove w="514" h="307" src="http://player.theplatform.com/ps/player/pds/LY5D57YOC1?pid= vvXIqS_7JGMwb2J9GozftOm8bwXOZtYO"]
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Live Discussion of “The Market Maker” Thursday July 23rd, 11:00 a.m.
aired: Wed, Jul 22, 2009
After the premiere of The Market Maker, WIDE ANGLE is pleased to invite you to join a live conversation about the film! The Market Maker follows Eleni Gabre-Madhin, a charismatic Ethiopian economist who, in an effort to end hunger in her famine-plagued country, designs the country's first commodities exchange. WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown travels to [...]
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WIDE ANGLE Invites Viewers to a Live Discussion of “The Market Maker”
aired: Tue, Jul 21, 2009
After the premiere of The Market Maker, WIDE ANGLE is pleased to invite you to join a live conversation about the film! The Market Maker follows Eleni Gabre-Madhin, a charismatic Ethiopian economist who, in an effort to end hunger in her famine-plagued country, designs the country's first commodities exchange. WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown travels to [...]
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Birth of a Surgeon: Full Episode
aired: Thu, Jul 16, 2009
WIDE ANGLE travels to Mozambique, where a bold grassroots initiative to train midwives in advanced life-saving surgery has significantly reduced the country's maternal death rate. 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 [...]
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Heart of Jenin
aired: Thu, Jul 9, 2009
When 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmed Khatib was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, his death could have been just one more blip on the news. Instead, Ahmed's parents' decision to donate his organs turned tragedy into hope for six Israelis and created [...]
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Crossing Heaven’s Border
aired: Thu, Jul 2, 2009
In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world’s last closed Communist state. In Crossing Heaven’s Border, WIDE ANGLE tells the moving and dramatic stories of a few of them. [cove w="514" h="307" src="http://player.theplatform.com/ps/player/pds/LY5D57YOC1?pid=Zy8K24F_veb_3Srf2WRoeIZs2JPhR3R5"]
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AIDS Warriors
aired: Fri, May 22, 2009
In sub-Saharan Africa today, AIDS is not only a vast humanitarian tragedy, but also a dire threat to regional stability. As death rates from AIDS exceed the rate at which teachers, doctors, and security forces can be trained and maintained, whole nations may begin to collapse. Perhaps the only benefit from Angola’s long civil war [...]
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Dishing Democracy: Full Episode
aired: Tue, Feb 17, 2009
Dishing Democracy: Full Episode
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Iraqi Exodus
aired: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
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. Our story takes us to the heart of the crisis – to Syria and Jordan, which harbor the vast majority of [...]
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China Prep
aired: Thu, Aug 14, 2008
China Prep follows five Chinese students through their final high-pressure year at an elite high school in Sichuan Province. Eighteen hundred students vie for spots in Beijing’s top two universities. Last year only 59 made it. Studying seven days a week, the students’ lives are regimented almost every minute of the day as they prepare for [...]
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Lord’s Children
aired: Thu, Jul 31, 2008
The region of Northern Uganda was ravaged by one of Africa’s longest civil wars until 2006. For over 20 years, more than 65,000 children, some as young as five years old, have been kidnapped by Uganda’s anti-government rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and forced to serve as child soldiers and sex slaves. Under the [...]
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Burning Season
aired: Wed, Jul 23, 2008
Every hour in Indonesian rainforests, an area the size of 300 soccer fields is mowed down and burned. Often this clearing is done to make way for oil palm plantations. The resulting palm oil is used for cooking, cleaning and even as a biofuel. But the fires farmers set to clear their land have helped [...]
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Birth of a Surgeon
aired: Thu, Jul 17, 2008
With more than half a million women dying in pregnancy or childbirth worldwide, Mozambique’s surgical training programs are being hailed as a model solution in confronting the maternal health crisis facing developing countries. The film captures one woman’s story on the frontlines of improving maternal mortality but it also demonstrates how low-cost, community-based health initiatives [...]
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Japan’s About-Face
aired: Fri, Jul 11, 2008
Japan’s About-Face is a remarkable window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society. WIDE ANGLE has acquired unprecedented access to the National Defense Academy, Japan’s “West Point.” We follow Defense Academy cadets preparing for a future that may involve overseas deployment, and meet with a group of peace activists — some [...]
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A Woman Among Warlords
aired: Tue, Sep 11, 2007
A Woman Among Warlords
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Brazil in Black and White
aired: Tue, Sep 4, 2007
WIDE ANGLE reports on the controversial racial debate roiling Brazil through profiles of civil right activists, opponents of affirmative action, and one of the country's few black senators.
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The Dying Fields
aired: Tue, Aug 28, 2007
Click for Film Transcript (PDF) interview with Jagdish Bhagwati (PDF)
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Full Episode
aired: Tue, Aug 21, 2007
Full Episode
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Gold Futures: Full Episode
aired: Tue, Aug 21, 2007
Gold Futures: Full Episode
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Full Episode
aired: Tue, Jul 31, 2007
Full Episode
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Back to School
aired: Tue, Jul 17, 2007
Back to School
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The Sand Castle: Interview with Afshin Molavi
aired: Mon, Jul 16, 2007
Afshin Molavi, former Dubai-based correspondent for Reuters and fellow at the New America Foundation discusses the United Arab Emirates' global significance with anchor Daljit Dhaliwal. DALJIT DHALIWAL: Afshin Molavi, welcome to Wide Angle. AFSHIN MOLAVI: Thank you, Daljit. It's a pleasure to be with you. DALJIT DHALIWAL: So, what did you make of the film? AFSHIN MOLAVI: I [...]
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Full Episode
aired: Tue, Jul 10, 2007
Full Episode
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Victory is Your Duty: Full Episode
aired: Mon, Jul 2, 2007
Victory is Your Duty: Full Episode
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Democracy in the Rough
aired: Tue, Sep 12, 2006
Democracy in the Rough
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Class of 2006
aired: Tue, Jul 25, 2006
Class of 2006
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Mixed Blessings
aired: Tue, Jul 18, 2006
Mixed Blessings
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H5N1 - Killer Flu
aired: Tue, Sep 20, 2005
H5N1 - Killer Flu
