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The national unrest in Liberia has been called "a civil war on steroids." With child soldiers smoking heroin and rebels boasting of cannibalism, the country may be teetering on the brink of anarchy. In this program, reporters from Vice magazine travel to Liberia to meet with former warlords in Monrovia's red light district. An ex-guerilla-turned-Christian-minister introduces the journalists to young people who grew up amidst violence and systematic...
82) Maostalgia
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In this program, Niall Ferguson asks how China manages to live under a Communist government but with a thriving capitalist economy. He travels to the new supercity of Chongqing and to the rural backwaters of Anhui to talk with survivors of Mao's regime, new billionaires, and Maoist nationalists, and finds the way China is governed now is eerily similar to the way it was under the First Emperor.
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With their financial resources dwindling and no hope of finding employment, life is increasingly difficult for Syria's Iraqi refugees. Many families have little choice now but to go back home and contend with the chaos that awaits them there. Afrah must confront the militia occupying her house, and Faiz will try to reestablish his TV repair business without funds or a place to live. For Ahlam, the return to Iraq is too painful to consider, so she...
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In this program from Iran's PressTV, a news crew travels throughout Afghanistan to learn first-hand how people there feel about the foreign presence in their country. The journalists find anger and frustration in Kandahar, much of it directed against the Americans, who they blame for dividing the loyalties of Afghan tribes. In Kabul the immediate concern is not foreign policy, but trying to feed families as aid shipments are diverted by corrupt middlemen....
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This program goes behind the scenes at Al Jazeera, "the CNN of Arabia. Dedicated to freedom of speech, Al Jazeera has earned the admiration of the West and the ire of the Arab nations-with the exception of Qatar, where the independent news agency is based. Interviews, clips of the highly controversial and extremely popular debate show The Opposite Direction, and reportage covering the first democratic election in Qatar, the role of women in Iranian...
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In Tokyo's Shinjuku Park, a community of laid-off day laborers lives in tents equipped with television, food, and kitchens. Although assisted by charities, the men here miss their families who cast them out because they lost their jobs. Another group of the homeless occupies brightly colored cardboard boxes inside the subway, painted by artist Junichiro Take. Like many other artists, Take has shunned the values of the past generation to embrace homelessness...
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China's first industrial revolution occurred more than two millennia before Europe's. Today, there is a new wave of industrialization in China as the awakened dragon prepares to test its wings. This program draws on historical evidence and expert commentary to vividly illustrate China's early mastery of crucial industrial processes and to explain how they contributed to the wealth and progress of Chinese civilization. Pivotal events that hampered...
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China's Great Wall suggests a land that shut itself off from the world, yet travelers, ideas, inventions, and goods have flowed in and out of China since ancient times. Buddhism and Islam entered via its fabled silk roads, and innovations in the arts and industrial sciences were exported from its cosmopolitan seaports to the centers of the known world. Why, then, did the most powerful economy on Earth isolate itself from outside trade? In this program,...
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In a world of deepening violence and misunderstanding, we need to explore the forces that hold things together. By expanding our definition of love, we learn to honor equally the many forms of affection and connection that create a healthy life and society. This film examines the many faces of love through in-depth stories of marriage, family, friendship, divine love, altruistic love, brotherly love, the love between parents and children, and love...
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This intimate documentary takes viewers into the lives of troops based at Fort Mackenzie, an isolated town in the middle of the Sunni Triangle, where the men are dependent on the army for any news of what's going on around them. The soldiers conduct raids and go on patrol, but communications are strictly controlled back at the base, with a 48-hour blackout imposed whenever someone is injured. What is it like to be at the mercy of the base's news blackout...
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Should Japan abandon its interlocking alliance between business and government and reengineer its economy on the American model? In this program, syndicated columnist and author Ben Wattenberg moderates a debate with Eamonn Fingleton, author of the controversial Blindside; Yoichi Funabashi, of the Asahi Shimbun; and experts from The Brookings Institution, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Tokyo) They discuss...
92) SuperPower
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In this program, Niall Ferguson asks what China's growing global presence and aggressive nationalism mean for the rest of the world. The West is increasingly dependent on China's money to bail out its own fragile economies - but at what price? What would it be like to work in a Chinese-dominated world? Should China's abuse of human rights criticized, or ignored?
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The Karen people are an ethnic minority living amidst ruby mines and valuable teak forests in Burma - and a people whom the military junta there has targeted for eradication. Since the Burmese capital was moved from Rangoon to rural Pynmana, close to the Karen homeland, troops have engaged in rape and systematic starvation as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign again them. This program follows a small contingent of the Karen National Liberation Army...
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The E.U. is intent on developing a Europe without economic borders. Module one of this program outlines the potential of Europe's open labor markets while addressing the barriers imposed by language and culture. Module two examines the basic principles of the European Central Bank and the objectives of European monetary policy. Module three assesses both the economic gains to be had from European integration and the challenges of equitable political...
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After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that one of its key rationales for overthrowing Saddam Hussein was that an Iraq with a freely chosen, representative government could serve as a model for spreading democracy in the Middle East. Iraq did succeed in holding elections, but the result was a government fractured along sectarian and ethnic lines that has been unable to govern effectively. Nearby, a democratic election...
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Rüschlikon is a sleepy Swiss village where unemployment is low and social problems rare. The town's good fortune was recently cemented by the arrival of Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of a multinational corporation with extensive holdings in Zambian copper mines. Glasenberg made nearly ten billion dollars when his company went public in 2011; receipt of his taxes so overwhelmed public coffers that the mayor gave all of Rüschlikon tax breaks. Less fortunate...
97) Risky Business
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The emerging science of behavioral economics is now showing that hormones like testosterone and cortisol may be causing supposedly rational stock traders to make irrational decisions. This video clip takes cameras onto the trading floor and talks to experts try to find out how large a role human biology plays in the business market.