The following WIDE ANGLE shows are available for you to watch online.
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A Woman Among Warlords |
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WIDE ANGLE provides a unique insight into the politics and culture of a nation ruined by war, still ruled by fear, but desperate for a change for the better.
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Brazil in Black and White |
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WIDE ANGLE explores a unique moment in Brazilian history as racial quotas launch an entirely new dialogue about race and identity. The film follows the lives of four students from diverse backgrounds competing to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia.
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The Dying Fields |
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THE DYING FIELDS documents the tragedy unfolding in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, central India, where crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, and spiraling debts are driving the farmers to unbearable levels of despair.
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The Sand Castle |
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His Highness SHeikh Saud of Ras al-Khaimah has a grandiose dream -- a capital city in the middle of his desert kingdom. WIDE ANGLE follows a Norwegian architectural firm as it bids to create a city on the sand dunes.
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Dishing Democracy |
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WIDE ANGLE goes behind the scenes at Arab television channel MBC in Cairo for an inside look at the hit all-female talk show, KALAM NAWAEM.
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Victory is Your Duty |
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Boxing has held a special place of honor in Cuban society since the revolution. Now, for the first time ever, the Havana Boxing Academy has opened its doors to a foreign film crew.
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Gold Futures |
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As a Canadian company plans the largest open-pit gold mine in Europein the heart of Transylvania, mineral wealth and badly-needed jobs compete with time-honored rural traditions and concerns about poisoning the environment
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The People's Court |
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Examining China's emerging system of law, WIDE ANGLE profiles itinerant judges, law students, a human rights lawyer, and ordinary citizens -- and reveals the lengths to which Chinese people must go to obtain justice.
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Democracy in the Rough |
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The stakes are high in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation reeling from decades of dictatorship and a civil war that left more than four million dead, as it holds its first elections in 46 years.
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Back to School |
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In 2003 WIDE ANGLE profiled seven children in seven countries as they started their first year of school. Returning in 2006, we find that some of these children are already struggling, hanging onto their education by a thread.
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Turkey's Tigers |
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For years, Turkey has been run by a stridently secular business and political elite struggling to align itself with the Western world, while its pious Muslims have been pushed to the political and economic fringes.
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Mixed Blessings |
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WIDE ANGLE visits the Emerald Isle to explore Ireland's dramatic transformation from a poor nation of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs, and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddily flush society.
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Class of 2006 |
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But the class of 2006 is no ordinary group of students. Side by side with the male graduates are 50 women pioneers, among the first contemporary group of women to be officially trained as religious leaders in the Arab world.
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H5N1 · Killer Flu |
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WIDE ANGLE travels to Vietnam to investigate the threat of a global pandemic, portraying Vietnam's response to outbreaks in its cities, provinces and villages, where doctors, epidemiologists, and veterinarians are battling the virus.
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Future for Lebanon |
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WIDE ANGLE goes behind the scenes during the recent parliamentary elections to examine whether a country of 18 different ethnic groups can overcome a history of religion- and clan-based politics and finally achieve true independence.
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Red Lines and Deadlines |
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Twenty-six years after the Islamic Revolution, Iran is struggling for political reform. WIDE ANGLE films behind the scenes with the young reporters at one of Iran's new pro-reform newspapers as they grapple to report the news.
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Ladies First |
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In spring 2004 -- as Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of the genocide -- WIDE ANGLE traveled to this fractured nation to make a film that looks forward instead of back.
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