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Wide Angle : Season 3
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Air date: 01 Jul '04 - 10 episodesWide 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.
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List of Episodes (10)
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Wide Angle (2002)
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1. Suicide Bombers
01 Jul '04In 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, one recruiter, and one bomb builder captured by Israeli security forces speak openly of their training, motivation, operational methodology, and profound belief in the idea of entering paradise by becoming a martyr killed in the cause of Islam.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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2. The Russian Newspaper Murders
08 Jul '04“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 and '03. The paper, the Togliatti Observer, was known for investigating links between organized crime and public officials. “We have to balance on the edge all the time,” says deputy editor Rimma Mikharova, “otherwise we might not be around to write the next article.” In Moscow, the pressures facing the
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Wide Angle (2002)
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3. Ladies First
22 Jul '04“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 Reticker and producer Deborah Shaffer were co-producers of the Oscar-nominated 2003 documentary “Asylum,” about a woman who flees Ghana to avoid genital mutilation and runs into trouble with U.S. immigration.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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4. Sahara Marathon
19 Aug '04WIDE 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.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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5. Young, Muslim and French
26 Aug '04WIDE 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 young Muslim women face a choice to obey the ban - or flout it.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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6. Time for School (Update)
02 Sep '04As 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 who face political opposition and physical intimidation as they literally risk their lives to participate in the future of their country.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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7. Hell of a Nation
09 Sep '04What 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 laundering office, as she struggles to fight the extraordinary reach of drug money in Colombia.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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8. An Honest Citizen
16 Sep '04Twenty-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 reporters of one of Iran's leading reformist newspapers.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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9. Red Lines and Deadlines
23 Sep '04Will the kingdom will find a path to democratic reform or succumb to a rising tide of Islamic extremism.
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Wide Angle (2002)
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10. The Saudi Question
07 Oct '04
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