Wide Angle Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Wide Angle: Season 8 (2009)

• Season 8 Episode 8: Time for School 3 - Part 2

  The global crisis in access to basic education.

• Season 8 Episode 7: Time for School 3 - Part 1

  The global crisis in access to basic education.

• Season 8 Episode 6: Once Upon a Coup

  Mercenary Simon Mann serves time in prison for plotting a coup against the Equatorial Guinea government.

• Season 8 Episode 5: Eyes of the Storm

  Thousands of children are orphaned following Cyclone Nargis, which hit Burma's southern coast in May 2008.

• Season 8 Episode 4: Contestant No. 2

  An Arab-Israeli teenager sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant and faces opposition from the Druze minority, a religious community.

• Season 8 Episode 3: The Market Maker

  An Ethiopian economist sets up her country's first commodities exchange, hoping to revolutionize Ethiopia's market system and end its food shortages.

• Season 8 Episode 2: Heart of Jenin

  The parents of a Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers consent to donate their son's organs.

• Season 8 Episode 1: Crossing Heaven's Border

  Refugees cross the Tumen River into northeast China to escape the repressive regime of North Korea.

Wide Angle: Season 7 (2008)

• Season 7 Episode 7: Iraqi Exodus

  Syrian-Iraqi Red Crescent members help displaced Iraqis in Syria cope with their new surroundings and government pressure.

• Season 7 Episode 6: China Prep

  Four Chinese students endure their final year at an elite high school in Sichuan Province, where 1,800 teens compete for 59 spots in China's top two universities.

• Season 7 Episode 5: Lord's Children

  Three former members of the Lord's Resistance Army escaped from Uganda's anti-government rebel group and sought refuge in a rehabilitation center.

• Season 7 Episode 4: Burning Season

  Dorjee Sun believes selling the carbon credits represented by large forests in three Indonesian provinces will help reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Birth of a Surgeon

  Midwives are being trained in advanced life-saving surgery in Mozambique.

• Season 7 Episode 2: Japan's About-Face

  The role of the military in post-war Japanese society.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Heart of Darfur

  The desperation of daily life in Al-Fashir, the capital city of North Darfur, Sudan.

Wide Angle: Season 6 (2007)

• Season 6 Episode 9: A Woman Among Warlords

  Malalai Joya campaigns for Afghanistan's parliament, meeting with clan leaders, opium kings and girls pressured to marry old men.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Gaza E.R.

  Doctors, nurses and staff of Shifa Hospital in Gaza deal with gunfights and medical shortages in the midst of Hamas turf wars, rival faction Fatah and powerful families with competing agendas.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Brazil in Black and White

  Four students compete for a spot at the elite University of Brasilia.

• Season 6 Episode 6: The Dying Fields

  Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices and spiraling debts drive farmers to suicide at the rate of one every eight hours in the Vidarbha region of India.

• Season 6 Episode 5: Gold Futures

  A Canadian company's plan to excavate an open-pit gold mine in a Romanian village raises environmental concerns.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Dishing Democracy

  Arabic TV channel MBC and its all-female talk show 'Kalam Nawaem.'

• Season 6 Episode 3: The Sand Castle

  A Norwegian architectural firm bids to create a city on the sand dunes in Ras al-Khaimah.

• Season 6 Episode 2: Victory Is Your Duty

  The Havana Boxing Academy in Cuba has been a breeding ground for Olympic boxers.

• Season 6 Episode 1: The People's Court

  A look inside the courtrooms and law schools of China reveal a rapidly growing legal system.

Wide Angle: Season 5 (2006)

• Season 5 Episode 8: Democracy in the Dark

  The Democratic Republic of Congo holds its first elections in more than four decades.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Back to School

  Children first profiled in 2003 progress in school in seven countries around the world.

• Season 5 Episode 6: Ransom City

  Sao Paulo's anti-kidnapping squad investigates the abduction of five women whose sons are celebrity soccer players.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Turkey's Tigers

  Muslims ascend in Turkish society through the ballot box and big business.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Flying Down to Kabul

  Danish pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern flies to Kabul to find a 16-year-old Afghan girl who dreams of becoming a fighter pilot.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Class of 2006

  Fifty women graduating from an imam academy in Morocco will be among the first to work as religious leaders in the Muslim world.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Mixed Blessings

  The city of Limerick, Ireland, becomes a place rich with foreign investment, high levels of immigration and an influx of shopping developments.

• Season 5 Episode 1: 18 With a Bullet

  Six months in the life of the Central American gang called '18.'

Wide Angle: Season 4 (2005)

• Season 4 Episode 8: H5N1: Killer Flu

  The Vietnam government tries to halt the spread of bird flu and educate its people to reduce the risk of infection.

• Season 4 Episode 7: 1-800-INDIA

  Indian men and women are recruited into white-collar outsourcing jobs requiring 80-hour work weeks.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Unfinished Country

  Haiti attempts to organize itself for the November presidential elections.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Pickles, Inc.

  The lives of eight widows in the Arab-Israeli village of Tamra in Galilee.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Gutted

  A fisherman in the Scottish Fleet has to decommission his family boat after the European Union tightens restrictions on cod catches.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Border Jumpers

  The border dispute surrounding the 10-foot-high electric fence being erected between Zimbabwe and Botswana.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Future for Lebanon

  In Lebanon a million unite against Syrian troops after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Beslan: Siege of School No. 1

  In September 2004, Chechen, Ingush and other nationalities take hostages at a school in Beslan, Russia, then the fight between the gunmen and security forces kills more than 330 children and adults, and wounds hundreds more.

Wide Angle: Season 3 (2004)

• Season 3 Episode 9: Red Lines and Deadlines

  Young journalists work for a reformist newspaper in Iran.

• Season 3 Episode 8: An Honest Citizen

  Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Vice President Francisco Santos Calderón fight government corruption and the drug trade.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Hell of a Nation

  Two aspiring Afghan delegates face political opposition.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Young, Muslim and French

  France bans Muslim women from wearing head scarves in public schools.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Sahara Marathon

  Annual marathon in the Saharan desert.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Ladies First

  Women in Rwanda emerge as prominent figures in business and politics.

• Season 3 Episode 3: The Saudi Question

  The future of Saudi Arabia rests on possible democratic reform.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Russian Newspaper Murders

  Journalists risk their lives to expose organized crime and corruption in Russia.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Suicide Bombers

  Imprisoned in Israel, three failed Palestinian suicide bombers discuss their beliefs and motivations.

Wide Angle: Season 2 (2003)

• Season 2 Episode 10: Dying to Leave

  An investigation targets international human trafficking.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Dammed

  Issues surrounding the building of a dam on India's Narmada River.

• Season 2 Episode 8: A State of Mind

  Two teenage girls prepare to participate in North Korea's Mass Games.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Time for School

  Inaccessibility to education is a global problem.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Road to Riches

  Blacks endure economic disadvantages in South Africa.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Prime Minister and the Press

  Silvio Berlusconi and the Italian media.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Coca and the Congressman

  Former farmer Evo Morales leads the coca growers' union in a power struggle against the Bolivian government.

• Season 2 Episode 3: AIDS Warriors

  Angola's military plays a role in fighting the country's AIDS epidemic.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Junoon: The Rock Star and the Mullahs

  Pakistani guitarist Salman Ahman travels to the cities of Lahore and Peshawar to reveal the internal religious and political conflicts of the Muslim world.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Exclusive to al-Jazeera

  Western media versus Arabic al-Jazeera network.

Wide Angle: Season 1 (2002)

• Season 1 Episode 10: Soul of India

  Hindu extremists in Gujarat Province kill some 2,000 Muslims, force more than 100,000 to flee to refugee camps, and teach militant propaganda to schoolchildren.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Media by Milosevic

  An investigation reviews Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power in Yugoslavia.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Cause for Murder

  The recent murders of two young women lawyers, who promoted human rights and legitimate protest, worry Mexicans that long-standing corruption may be immovable.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Growing Up Global

  Eight 10-year-olds deal with racism, poverty, child labor and political violence.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Bitter Harvest

  Afghanistan's opium production and trade.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Empty ATM

  Barter clubs in Argentina help citizens deal with the country's economic and social breakdown.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Land of Wandering Souls

  Cambodia becomes integrated with the world community and modern technology.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Greetings From Grozny

  Chechnya and Russia clash.

• Season 1 Episode 2: To Have and Have Not

  China's entry into the World Trade Organization affects its citizens.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Saddam's Ultimate Solution

  Saddam Hussein wages biological and chemical attacks on the part of his country that is known as Kurdistan.