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Wide Angle — Storyline

Wide Angle was an American documentary television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for broadcast on PBS and for worldwide distribution. The weekly one-hour series covered international current affairs and was last hosted by veteran journalist Aaron Brown. Wide Angle began broadcasting on PBS in 2002, and aimed to expand the awareness and understanding of Americans about the changing world in which they live. It was the only documentary series on American television devoted exclusively to reporting in-depth on international issues.Following its final season it was nominated for a 2010 International Documentary Association Continuing Series award.

Cast & Crew

Wide Angle — Series Details

Wide Angle — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Saddam's Ultimate Solution (2002-07-11) — One of the world's least-known societies, Iraqi Kurdistan, is under ongoing genocidal attack by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. British filmmaker Gwynne Roberts shot inside Iraqi Ku
• E2: To Have and Have Not (2002-07-18) — Once the home of the "iron ricebowl" and social equality for all, today China has joined the ranks of the World Trade Organization. This extraordinarily candid film introduces view
• E3: Greetings from Grozny (2002-07-25) — The ruined cityscape of Grozny, Chechnya and the scarred roads and fields of the countryside bear witness to a conflict that has been marked both by brutal occupation and terrorist
• E4: Land of the Wandering Souls (2002-08-01) — "Land of Wandering Souls" follows a group of workers who are laying a high-tech fiber optic cable that will link Cambodia to the rest of Asia and Europe. This film provides a haunt
• E5: The Empty ATM (2002-08-08) — In December 2001, the Argentinian government defaulted on $155 billion in public debt. Since then, this once-wealthy country has gone through five presidents and watched its curren
• E6: Bitter Harvest (2002-08-22) — With the departure of the Taliban, the current opium crop in Afghanistan is among the largest ever. How will the world's drug control authorities deal with this fact of Central Asi
• E7: Growing Up Global (2002-08-29) — Ten years ago, filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino began recording the lives of eight newborn babies from around the world. In 1992, world leaders met in Brazil for the Earth Summit on sust
• E8: Cause for Murder (2002-09-05) — The election of President Vicente Fox in 2000 ended more than 70 years of single-party rule. This film examines the hopes that a new dawn has come in Mexico's history, and the fear
• E9: Media by Milosevic (2002-09-12) — This investigative report will take the viewer inside the realm, and inside the mind, of one of the most effective and brutal tyrants of the past 50 years.
• E10: Soul of India (2002-09-19) — The bloody conflict between Hindus and Muslims in northwestern India is at the forefront of a struggle for India's identity. The film focuses in part on the efforts of India's supe

Season 2

• E1: Exclusive to al-Jazeera (2003-07-10) — WIDE ANGLE goes behind the scenes of Al-Jazeera's broadcast headquarters in the Arabian Gulf state of Qatar during its nonstop coverage of the war in Iraq. Watched by millions of p
• E2: Junoon: The Rock Star and the Mullahs (2003-07-17) — WIDE ANGLE follows Salman Ahmed as he journeys to the tolerant, ancient city of Lahore and the fundamentalist stronghold of Peshawar to reveal the internal religious and political
• E3: AIDS Warriors (2003-07-24) — WIDE ANGLE explores the role of the Angolan military, the only functioning arm of the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS pandemic. The challenges it faces offer an arres
• E4: To Have and Have Not (Update) (2003-07-31) — WIDE ANGLE travels with Evo Morales to the stunning highlands of Bolivia as he fights to expand the amount of coca that can be legally grown by farmers. The pitfalls of a drug-base
• E5: Coca and the Congressman (2003-08-07) — The Prime Minister and the Press examines Silvio Berlusconi's rise to prominence, and explores what happens to public debate when extreme wealth and political power converge with m
• E6: The Prime Minister and the Press (2003-08-21) — The film reveals the stark contrasts among the lives of South Africans almost ten years after the demise of apartheid. The clock is still clearly ticking to do even more to improve
• E7: Road to Riches (2003-08-28) — “Time for School” follows first graders in places around the world where free and compulsary education is not available to all children. Countries visited include Kenya, Benin, Bra
• E8: Time for School (2003-09-04) — This documentary tells the story of two teenage girls and their families as the girls prepare to participate in North Korea's Mass Games, an intricately choreographed display celeb
• E9: A State of Mind (2003-09-11) — "The Dammed" raises important questions about the costs and consequences of modernization and development, as the global community re-evaluates the social and environmental impacts
• E10: The Dammed (2003-09-18) — This two-hour WIDE ANGLE special explores the current worldwide boom in illicit migration. Focusing on five major stories whose journeys traverse 16 countries, this documentary wil
• E11: Dying to Leave (2003-09-25)

Season 3

• E1: Suicide Bombers (2004-07-01) — In a series of unique, powerful, and revealing interviews from inside Israeli prisons, this film examines the minds of Palestinian suicide bombers. Three failed suicide bombers, on
• E2: The Russian Newspaper Murders (2004-07-08) — “The Russian Newspaper Murders” explores the tenuous state of freedom of speech in Russia as it investigates the murders of two editors of the same newspaper in 18 months in 2002 a
• E3: Ladies First (2004-07-22) — “Ladies First” explores the role of Rwandan women in building bridges between Hutus and Tutsis 10 years after the genocide that killed 800,000 people in 100 days. Director Gini Ret
• E4: Sahara Marathon (2004-08-19) — WIDE ANGLE presents the story of a unique marathon that is staged annually in the hope of drawing attention to the plight of the Sahrawi people.
• E5: Young, Muslim and French (2004-08-26) — WIDE ANGLE explores the ban on Muslim headscarves in French schools in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys, a racially diverse, working-class community on the outskirts of Paris, where yo
• E6: Time for School (Update) (2004-09-02) — As Afghanistan struggled to adopt a new constitution, WIDE ANGLE filmed behind the scenes at the December 2003 loya jirga. The documentary profiles two aspiring Afghan delegates wh
• E7: Hell of a Nation (2004-09-09) — What could be more dangerous than trying to bring law and order to Colombia? "An Honest Citizen" follows Maria Cristina Chirolla, head of the attorney general's anti-money launderi
• E8: An Honest Citizen (2004-09-16) — Twenty-five years after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the struggle for political reform is the big story. With rare access, WIDE ANGLE films behind the scenes with the young repo
• E9: Red Lines and Deadlines (2004-09-23) — Will the kingdom will find a path to democratic reform or succumb to a rising tide of Islamic extremism.
• E10: The Saudi Question (2004-10-07)

Season 4

• E1: White Smoke (2005-04-26) — This episode of WIDE ANGLE chronicles the life of the Vatican in the days between the announcement of Pope John Paul II's death and the election of the new pope by a conclave, the
• E2: Future for Lebanon (2005-07-19) — Some call it "Russia's 9-11." The siege of School No. 1 in the Russian town of Beslan on September 1, 2004 was the bloodiest act of terrorism in Russia since Chechnya declared inde
• E3: Border Jumpers (2005-07-26) — "Future for Lebanon" takes viewers to the oldest democracy in the Middle East as voters go to the polls in a new era. From the beaches of Beirut to the radical rallies of Hezbollah
• E4: Red Lines and Deadlines (Update) (2005-08-02) — "Border Jumpers" takes us inside the human drama at the Botswana-Zimbabwe border, profiling illegal immigrants threatened with arrest and deportation, and a journalist who reports
• E5: Gutted (2005-08-23) — “Gutted” charts the final voyages of a family-owned Scottish fishing boat that has been decommissioned to accommodate European Union cod quotas, despite being only seven years old.
• E6: Pickles, Inc. (2005-08-30) — In February 2003, eight widows of Tamra decided to challenge convention by starting up a business venture — the Azka Pickle Cooperative — seeking financial independence for thems
• E7: Unfinished Country (2005-09-06) — Through unfettered access to political strongmen, gangsters turned presidential hopefuls, and ordinary Haitian citizens, WIDE ANGLE reveals Haiti's struggle to fashion a true repre
• E8: 1-800-INDIA (2005-09-13) — In India, outsourcing has sparked an economic boom, and those working in the industry are making new lives that balance traditional Indian family values with Western-style social a
• E9: H5N1—Killer Flu (2005-09-20) — 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, epide

Season 5

• E1: 18 with a Bullet (2006-07-11) — With unprecedented access to the lives of these self-proclaimed “homeboys,” "18 with a Bullet" uncovers the inner workings of a gang whose transnational membership numbers in the t
• E2: Mixed Blessings (2006-07-18) — "Mixed Blessings" looks at Ireland's dramatic transformation from a poor nation of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs, and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddil
• E3: Class of 2006 (2006-07-25) — WIDE ANGLE cameras are on location in Morocco as history is made. In May 2006, an imam academy in the city of Rabat holds a graduation ceremony. But the class of 2006 includes 50 w
• E4: Flying Down to Kabul (2006-08-01) — One day, Danish artist and pilot Simone Aaberg Kærn reads in her morning paper the story of a 16-year-old Afghan girl who dreams of becoming a fighter pilot. Flying 3,000 miles fro
• E5: Pledge Special (2006-08-22) — 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 t
• E6: Ransom City (2006-08-29) — Characterizing the racial breakdown of Brazil is even more complex than characterizing that of America.
• E7: Back to School (2006-09-05) — In Sao Paulo, where someone is kidnapped every three days on average, "Ransom City" explores a twist in Brazil's dangerous crime fad as the mothers of five celebrity soccer players
• E8: Democracy in the Rough (2006-09-12) — A follow-up to the 2003 episode “Time for School,” which followed first-graders in places around the world where free and compulsory education is not available to all children. Inc
• E9: Democracy in the Rough (2006-09-12) — WIDE ANGLE is on the ground as the Democratic Republic of Congo holds its first elections in 45 years — an election supported by more than $450 million from the United Nations. "D

Season 6

• E1: The People’s Court (2007-07-03) — "The People's Court" takes viewers inside the courtrooms and law schools of China to provide an unprecedented and unexpected portrait of its rapidly growing legal system. The docum
• E2: Victory Is Your Duty (2007-07-10) — A report on boxing in Cuba, including a visit to the Havana Boxing Academy to observe fighters as they work out and train for future fights.
• E3: The Sand Castle (2007-07-24) — WIDE ANGLE travels to the royal headquarters of the United Arab Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah as HH Sheikh Saud solicits top European architects to carry out his grandiose dream of a n
• E4: Dishing Democracy (2007-07-31) — 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. The film provides a nuanced portrait of
• E5: Gaza E.R. (2007-08-14) — In the summer of 2006, as internal battles fracture the Palestinian Territories, WIDE ANGLE provides a glimpse inside the conflict as it spirals out of control. Gaza E.R. follows d
• E6: Gold Futures (2007-08-21) — Gold Futures is a David-and-Goliath story set in a scenic Romanian village in the heart of Transylvania. At stake: a massive deposit of gold ore – and a 2000-year-old village commu
• E7: The Dying Fields (2007-08-28) — At a moment when India is enjoying record economic growth, THE DYING FIELDS turns to Vidarbha's four million cotton farmers who have been left behind, struggling to survive on less
• E8: Brazil in Black and White (2007-09-04) — BRAZIL IN BLACK AND WHITE follows the lives of five young college hopefuls from diverse backgrounds as they compete to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia, where
• E9: A Woman Among Warlords (2007-09-11) — Since Afghanistan emerged from under Taliban rule in late 2001, women's rights have made great strides on paper. But the reality on the ground is a mixed picture.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Wide Angle have? 8 season(s) with 73 episodes.

Where can I watch Wide Angle? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.