Wide Angle RSS feed for PBS programming.http://video.pbs.orgen-ushttp://video.pbs.orgWed, 19 Jun 2013 01:22:20 -0400Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:22:20 -0400http://video.pbs.org/video/1248818700/WIDE ANGLE's award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, follows seven children from seven countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.http://video.pbs.org/video/1248818700/09/14/2010Follow 7 children from 7 countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsEducationEducationGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentHuman RightsHuman RightsRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1239934544/WIDE ANGLE's award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, follows seven children - from Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya and Romania - who are struggling to achieve what is not yet a global birthright - a basic education. In part three of the series the students struggle to complete middle school and continue to the next level.http://video.pbs.org/video/1239934544/09/14/2010Seven kids In 7 countries. A 12-year project on kids struggling to get a basic education.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsEducationEducationGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesHuman RightsHuman RightsRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1220928755/"Eyes of the Storm" tells the struggles of several orphaned children left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. A Burmese team shot undercover for over 10 months in defiance of the ruling junta's media blackout to provide a rare window into one of the world's most secretive countries.http://video.pbs.org/video/1220928755/05/17/2012Orphaned children fend for themselves in Burma after Cyclone Nargis.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsHuman RightsHuman RightsEpisodeend=2014-08-18http://video.pbs.org/video/1215415379/At the Havana Boxing Academy, boys live and train with a single purpose: to bring home Olympic gold. Victory Is Your Duty follows the young boxers as they build up to the biggest event of their lives: the annual National Boxing Championships. After the film, WIDE ANGLE's Aaron Brown reports from Miami to tell what happens when Academy boxers grow up: and defect to the United States.http://video.pbs.org/video/1215415379/05/17/2012Meet young boxers at the Havana Boxing Academy as they train for Olympic gold.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsBiography & ProfilesBiography & ProfilesGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSportsSportsHuman RightsHuman RightsEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1203517070/An Arab-Israeli teen sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant.http://video.pbs.org/video/1203517070/09/14/2010An Arab-Israeli teen sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsConflict ResolutionConflict ResolutionEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1197888947/Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a charismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-plagued country. But rather than relying on foreign aid, she has a truly radical plan. She has designed the nation's first commodities exchange, which she hopes will revolutionize an ancient market system whose inefficiencies have been partly responsible for the country's persistent food shortages.http://video.pbs.org/video/1197888947/05/17/2012An attempt to end famine in Ethiopia by starting a commodities exchange.nrModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1185253188/WIDE ANGLE travels to Mozambique where, for the first time, midwives are being trained in advanced life-saving surgery. Suffering from an acute shortage of doctors, Mozambique's bold grassroots initiatives have cut its maternal death rate. Birth of a Surgeon received an Emmy nomination for Oustanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in 2009.http://video.pbs.org/video/1185253188/09/14/20102009 Emmy Nominee: Midwives in Mozambique trained in life-saving surgery reduce...nrHealthHealthHealth Care & IllnessesHealth Care & IllnessesHealthHealthHuman RightsHuman RightsRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenHealthHealthEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1171612608/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.http://video.pbs.org/video/1171612608/05/17/2012North Korean defectors on the dangerous journey to South KoreanrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsMediaMediaPoliticsPoliticsHuman RightsHuman RightsImmigrationImmigrationEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1155718068/In January 2009, Waterford Crystal went bankrupt. The company's main factory, in Waterford, Ireland, was closed, and 480 people were fired. Many of them had worked there for decades. But the Waterford workers refused to give up their jobs without a fight. FOCAL POINT's "Raise the Last Glass" follows two Waterford Crystal workers as they try to save their jobs and a bit of Irish heritage.http://video.pbs.org/video/1155718068/09/14/2010Two Waterford Crystal workers try to save their jobs and a bit of Irish heritage.nrArts & EntertainmentArts & EntertainmentFolk Art & CraftsFolk Art & CraftsNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsBusiness & EconomyBusiness & EconomyModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentFocal PointFocal PointEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1240116814/WIDE ANGLE's web-exclusive series of documentary shorts, FOCAL POINT, visits the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. FOCAL POINT trains its lens on one of the 15,000 North Korean defectors who have made it to South Korea.http://video.pbs.org/video/1240116814/09/14/2010Visit the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsGovernmentGovernmentConflict ResolutionConflict ResolutionHuman RightsHuman RightsFocal PointFocal PointNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1242366121/In this episode of Focal Point, meet Abida Hussain, a sharp-tongued politician with gray hair and a smoker's raspy voice who is running for parliament in Punjab, Pakistan -- against her own cousin.http://video.pbs.org/video/1242366121/09/14/2010A sharp-tongued politician runs against her cousin for parliament in PakistannrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsPoliticsPoliticsFocal PointFocal PointNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1242300115/In this episode of Focal Point, meet the Michael Bloomberg of Pakistan, a man of humble origins who hits the jackpot and decides to run for mayor of his hometown.http://video.pbs.org/video/1242300115/09/14/2010Meet a Pakistani man who hits the jackpot and decides to run for mayor of his hometown.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsBiography & ProfilesBiography & ProfilesGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsGovernmentGovernmentPoliticsPoliticsModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentFocal PointFocal PointNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1242429529/Explore the black markets and underground protest movements of Zimbabwe in this web-exclusive video from WIDE ANGLE.http://video.pbs.org/video/1242429529/09/14/2010Explore the black markets and underground protest movements of Zimbabwe.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesPoliticsPoliticsModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentHuman RightsHuman RightsFocal PointFocal PointEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1246030058/Go inside a rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia, where art therapy and religious re-education are being used to reform militant jihadists, like Ahmed al-Shaya, who went to Iraq on a suicide mission in 2004. Meet Juma Al-Dossary who has returned to Saudi Arabia after spending six years in Guantanamo, and hear from Dr. Awad Alymai, the detainees' art therapist, about his patients' transformation.http://video.pbs.org/video/1246030058/09/14/2010Go inside a rehabilitation center for former militant jihadists in Saudi Arabia.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsNational SecurityNational SecurityScience & NatureScience & NaturePsychology & The MindPsychology & The MindConflict ResolutionConflict ResolutionFocal PointFocal PointNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1163078349/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.http://video.pbs.org/video/1163078349/09/14/2010A frontline report on the staggering Iraqi refugee crisis in the Middle East.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsNational SecurityNational SecurityReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1161506568/"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. Who among them will be most likely to succeed? the daughter of the Party official or the farmer's son? Who will be the boss?http://video.pbs.org/video/1161506568/09/14/2010The next generation of Chinese leaders are molded under pressure at an elite high school.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyCommunityCommunityNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsEducationEducationGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentEpisodeend=2015-08-11http://video.pbs.org/video/1168586547/Follow three former child soldiers in Uganda who escaped from the bush and have since taken refuge in a rehabilitation center. Lord's Children received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in 2009.http://video.pbs.org/video/1168586547/09/14/20102009 Emmy Nominee: Follow three former child soldiers in Uganda who try to put their...nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsNational SecurityNational SecuritySocial IssuesSocial IssuesConflict ResolutionConflict ResolutionHuman RightsHuman RightsDrug TradeDrug TradeEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1167537304/Japan's About-Face is a remarkable window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society. WIDE ANGLE acquired unprecedented access to the National Defense Academy, Japan's "West Point." We follow cadets preparing for a future that may involve overseas deployment, and meet with a group of peace activists on a grueling two month, 750-mile protest march from Hiroshima to Tokyo.http://video.pbs.org/video/1167537304/09/14/2010Japan's About-Face is a window into the changing role of the military in Japanese society.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsNational SecurityNational SecurityPoliticsPoliticsModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1162425897/The film Heart of Darfur captures the desperation of daily life in remote villages, crowded refugee camps and in El Fasher, the once sleepy capital of North Darfur that is now home to 100,000 refugees and 10,000 U.N. personnel.http://video.pbs.org/video/1162425897/09/14/2010Meet the people affected by what is called "the world's largest humanitarian crisis."nrFilm & TelevisionFilm & TelevisionNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsNational SecurityNational SecuritySocial IssuesSocial IssuesConflict ResolutionConflict ResolutionHuman RightsHuman RightsRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/1162004650/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 four Arab women harnessing the power of transnational satellite TV to boldly and effectively push social reform.http://video.pbs.org/video/1162004650/09/14/2010A hit all-female talk show in Cairo features four Arab women who push social reform.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyPeople & ProfilesPeople & ProfilesNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsSocial IssuesSocial IssuesPoliticsPoliticsHuman RightsHuman RightsMedia & JournalismMedia & JournalismRights & Roles of WomenRights & Roles of WomenEpisodeend=2014-07-30http://video.pbs.org/video/1167487486/Travel to the United Arab Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah as His Highness Sheikh Saud solicits top European architects to carry out his grandiose dream of a new capital city in the middle of his desert kingdom. See inside an unfolding drama in which agents of East and West struggle to arrive at an architectural vision both worlds can embrace.http://video.pbs.org/video/1167487486/09/14/2010East and West struggle to arrive at a vision for a new capital city in a desert kingdom.nrNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsTechnologyTechnologyTransportation & InfrastructureTransportation & InfrastructureModernizationModernizationEconomic DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentNational BuildingNational BuildingPolitical ReformPolitical ReformEpisodeend=2014-07-23http://video.pbs.org/video/1167820181/In the summer of 2006, Iranian pilgrims left Tehran by bus for the holy city of Karbala, deep inside a shattered Iraq. "Pilgrimage To Karbala" follows this journey into the heart of Shia Islam, revealing how two ancient crimes, the murder of Muhammad's grandson and the disappearance of a six-year-old imam, became the founding legends of Shiism and dominate events in the Middle East today.http://video.pbs.org/video/1167820181/09/14/2010"Pilgrimage To Karbala" follows Iranian pilgrims to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsHistoryHistoryWorldWorldNews & Public AffairsNews & Public AffairsGlobal AffairsGlobal AffairsReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsPoliticsPoliticsReligionReligionEpisode