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Frontline/World - PBS Video Podcast
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FRONTLINE/World is a national PBS series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television. This international news magazine travels the earth in a series of videos podcasts -- a unique mix of "stories from a small planet" by a diverse group of reporters who take viewers on journeys of discovery and offer different perspectives on world events. Many of these stories can be seen only on the web and are produced as part of the FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut series, a platform to showcase the work of young, independent producers.
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Jamaica: Girls on Track
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Producers Molly Snyder-Fink and Kiran Goldman travel to Jamaica to find out how a country with a smaller population than Chicago can be so dominant in track and field.
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iWitness Honduras: Standoff at the Embassy
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Reporter Monica Villamizar discusses the tense standoff between deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and interim president Roberto Micheletti.
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China: Wall Scholar
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Oct 06, 2009
FRONTLINE/World's Joe Rubin talks to historian David Spindler about his obsession with the Great Wall of China, the results of which go on exhibit this month in San Francisco and New York.
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Brazil: Hired Guns
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
FRONTLINE/World reporter Siri Schubert examines a violent clash between a landless farmers movement and an agribusiness giant.
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Bangladesh: The Blowback of Corruption
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Correspondent David Montero reports on the Canadian energy company Niko Resources Limited, which has left a scarred environmental legacy in Bangladesh.
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California: The Immigration Dilemma
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
FRONTLINE/World reporter Jason Margolis investigates how a three-year drought and tough economic times are stirring the immigration debate in California's Central Valley.
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iWitness Afghanistan: A Stolen Election?
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
As evidence of rampant vote rigging, perpetrated mostly by President Hamid Karzai's supporters, continues to stack up, Jason Motlagh reports from Afghanistan.
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iWitness: Jailed in Iran, A Reporter's Story
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 03, 2009
Photojournalist Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden discusses covering the recent protests in Iran and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment on suspicion of espionage.
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Pakistan: Karachi's Invisible Enemy
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 27, 2009
Correspondent Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports from Karachi on the Taliban fighters arriving among the masses of people displaced from the Swat Valley.
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iWitness Bangladesh: Where Corruption Flows
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Aug 18, 2009
FRONTLINE/World's David Montero asks one of Bangladesh's leading reporters what happens when a fugitive minister bribed by Siemens and tied to extremists finally turns himself in?
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West Papua: The Clever One
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 13, 2009
Filmmaker Josiah Hooper travels to West Papua, Indonesia, with painter Mary Jo McConnell to track down a peculiar artistic inspiration: the Vogelkop Bowerbird.
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Guatemala: A Tale of Two Villages
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 06, 2009
Filmmakers Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek take a look at the lasting effects a U.S. immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, had on two small villages in Guatemala.
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Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 30, 2009
Correspondent Marjorie McAfee explores a unique partnership between an American wheelchair designer and a Vietnamese factory owner that is helping thousands of Vietnamese.
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Egypt: Middle East, Inc.
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 23, 2009
Correspondent Amanda Pike examines the youth unemployment epidemic in Egypt and discovers an organization trying to cure it by teaching entrepreneurship.
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Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
FRONTLINE/World presents a global investigation into the dumping and dangerous recycling of hundreds of millions of pounds of electronic waste across the developing world.
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Afghanistan: Law and Order
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, May 28, 2009
Reporter Nadene Ghouri travels to Kabul, Afghanistan, to see how General Ali Shah Paktiawal and his Criminal Investigations Department are policing this dangerous city.
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Sweden: Uncovering the Secret Deals
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, May 14, 2009
Correspondent Lowell Bergman sits down with investigative journalist Fredrik Laurin to discuss Laurin's documentary "Gripen: The Secret Deals," which exposed massive corruption in the sale of Swedish fighter jets to the Czech Republic.
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iWitness Afghanistan: A Hard Fight
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
FRONTLINE/World's Joe Rubin gets reaction from reporter Jason Motlagh, who has just returned from spending two months with U.S. troops in troubled Afghan provinces along the Pakistan border.
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Italy: Taking on the Mafia
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Mar 12, 2009
Carola Mamberto reports on the invisible hand of the Mafia in Palermo, Italy, and tells the story of a movement of young people fighting back.
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iWitness Bangladesh: The Mystery of a Mutiny
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Mar 10, 2009
Reporter David Montero tries to understand why a group of Bangladeshi soldiers went on a killing spree earlier this week, leaving at least 56 senior officers dead.
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Albania: Getting Out of Gitmo
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
The strange odyssey of five Muslim men from China, captured in Pakistan after 9/11, imprisoned in Guantanamo for seven years, then forcibly resettled in Albania, illustrates the problems facing the Obama administration as it tries to shut down the controversial prison.
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Uganda: A Little Goes a Long Way
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Dec 11, 2008
FRONTLINE/World travels to Uganda to explore how one San Francisco-based nonprofit is using the Web to forge a more direct connection between lenders in the U.S. and borrowers in developing countries.
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Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Nov 13, 2008
Reporter Ben Pauker investigates China's growing influence in the resource-rich Congo, as they continue to supply weapons as an entree to other enterprises such as mining.
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Kenya: Sweet Home Obama
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Nov 04, 2008
Reporter Edwin O'Kongo returns to his native country to find great expectations awaiting both him and Barack Obama, another man with Kenyan roots.
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Brazil: The Obama Samba
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 30, 2008
Obama-mania has reached Brazil, where political candidates like Claudio Henrique are trying to catch the wave by taking the U.S. presidential candidate's name.
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Vietnam: Forgive and Forget?
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
Reporter Nguyen Qui Duc returns to Vietnam to find a country re-examining its complicated relationship with the U.S. -- and an American war hero running for president.
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Iraq: Saddam's Road To Hell
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
Filmmaker Gwynne Roberts and a team of human rights investigators set off on a dangerous journey across Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000 Kurdish men and boys who went missing in the early years of Saddam's rule.
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Sri Lanka: A Terrorist in the Family
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Oct 02, 2008
Norwegian filmmaker Beate Arnestad goes deep inside the hidden world of Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers to try to understand the mind of a suicide bomber.
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Burma: Inside the Saffron Revolution
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 25, 2008
One year after the Burmese military regime's violent confrontation with hundreds of thousands of dissident monks protesting for democracy, the junta has only intensified its crackdown on democracy activists.
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Kuwait: The Ninety-Nine
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Sep 11, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff follows Naif al-Mutawa, creator of the Muslim superhero comic The 99, as he markets his comics across the Middle East, hoping to spread a moderate, modern image of Islam.
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Jesus in China
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Sep 02, 2008
Reporter Evan Osnos investigates the rapid growth of Christianity in China and how China's ruling party, officially atheist, is struggling to deal with it.
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India: Design Like You Give a Damn
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Reporter Singeli Agnew travels to Tamil Nadu, India, to see the work of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that links communities in need with a network of architects ready to help.
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Russia: Putin's Plan
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 14, 2008
Victoria Gamburg follows the Russian presidential race, as democratic opposition leaders struggle against the hand-picked choice of outgoing president and new prime minister Vladmimir Putin.
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Guatemala: The Secret Files
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Aug 12, 2008
Clark Boyd examines how a Silicon Valley nonprofit named Benetech is helping human rights investigators save a lost chapter in Guatemala's history.
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Mexico: Crimes at the Border
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Jul 29, 2008
Correspondents Lowell Bergman and Andrew Becker investigate the rapidly expanding business of smuggling humans across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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iWitness Bosnia: The Arrest of Radovan Karadzic
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
FRONTLINE/World's Joe Rubin gets reaction from Bosnia on Karadzic's arrest, and hears from a journalist in Belgrade, Serbia, who thinks another wanted war criminal's arrest is soon to follow.
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Tanzania: Hero Rats
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Jul 22, 2008
Reporter Alexis Bloom investigates the unlikely animals who save lives by sniffing for land mines.
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Egypt: Extraordinary Rendition
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
FRONTLINE/World correspondent Stephen Gray investigates one of the darkest sides of the Bush administration's war on terror -- it's secret rendition program.
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Mozambique: Guitar Hero
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Marjorie McAfee travels to Niassa, Mozambique, to meet Feliciano dos Santos, an Afro-pop bandleader by night and a non-profit hygiene and sanitation advocate by day.
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Pakistan: State of Emergency
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
FRONTLINE/World correspondent David Montero investigates a mysterious Taliban cleric who has been waging a war in Pakistan's beautiful Swat Valley, all while President Pervez Musharraf has been preoccupied with retaining power.
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Afghanistan: The Other War
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Jul 08, 2008
FRONTLINE/World correspondent Sam Kiley reports from the frontlines of Afghanistan, where dual battles are being fought to win the trust of the Afghan people and combat the extremists living among them.
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Poland: Chopin's Heart
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, May 22, 2008
Filmmaker Marian Marzynski visits his native Poland to witness the 15th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Eight hundred contestants, from 19 countries, sign up for the nail-biting musical marathon, which provides exquisite music and plenty of surprises.
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Burma: State of Fear
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, May 08, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Evan Williams travels undercover to Burma to expose the violence and repression carried out by Burma's government against its own people.
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Iceland: The Future of Sound
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, May 01, 2008
PRI World reporter Marco Werman flies into Iceland for FRONTLINE/World on a hunt to find some of the most innovative pop music on the planet. Around-the-clock pub crawls follow, naturally.
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Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Apr 24, 2008
FRONTLINE/World goes undercover in Zimbabwe to reveal how a country once regarded as a beacon of democracy and prosperity in Africa has become a brutal dictatorship with a population living in fear.
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China: Shanghai Nights
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Nguyen Qui Duc visits Shanghai, a changing boomtown on the edge of China's cultural frontier, with literary "bad girl" Mian Mian, whose writing about sex, drugs and music rocked a generation.
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Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Apr 08, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Emily Taguchi profiles Japanese businessman Kikuo Morimoto, a social entrepreneur who made it his life's work to revive the lost art of Cambodian silk making.
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Philippines: The Black Stain of Oil
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Apr 03, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Jason Margolis travels to an area of the Philippines rich with marine wildlife to investigate the efforts to clean-up a devastating oil spill.
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India: A Pound of Flesh
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Apr 01, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit organ market and find out why so many people there are willing to sell their kidneys illegally.
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Tibet: Eye Camp
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Mar 27, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff travels to Tibet with American doctor Marc Leiberman, who teaches locals to perform cataract surgery.
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India: A New Life
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Mar 20, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Gita Pullapilly profiles Father Thomas Koshy, a priest in southern India providing education, shelter, and better opportunities to the country's growing number of street children.
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Haiti: Belo's Song of Peace
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Tue, Mar 18, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Natasha Del Toro takes a musical adventure to Haiti to cover a chaotic first-time music festival in a country where nothing works.
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China: Undermined
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Mar 13, 2008
In China' s industrial countryside, FRONTLINE/World reporter Duane Moles finds that digging for coal is literally undermining whole villages.
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Ghana: Baseball Dreams
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Mar 06, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Zach Stauffer travels to Ghana for a story about a fledgling baseball community in a land where soccer has been the overwhelming sports passion.
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Iraq: The Alcohol Smugglers
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jan 17, 2008
FRONTLINE/World reporter Karzan Sherabayani travels to the mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Kurdish smugglers engage in the fruitful, albeit illicit, practice of bringing alcohol across the border into Iran.
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Dubai: Night Secrets
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Nov 15, 2007
A FRONTLINE/World investigation into the thriving global sex trade in Dubai, the Utopian oasis of the Middle East, reported by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Photography Professor Mimi Chakarova.
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Pakistan: Disappeared
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Nov 08, 2007
FRONTLINE/World correspondent David Montero reports on how Pakistani housewife Amina Masood Janjua's campaign to find her missing husband sparked national protests challenging Pakistan's feared intelligence agency, the ISI, and led to events that would severely test Musharraf's power.
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Ecuador: Country Doctors
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 23, 2007
Frustrated by his country's lack of healthcare for the poor, especially those in rural areas, Dr. Edgar Rodas started an organization of volunteer Ecuadorian doctors who trek high into the Andes and deep into the Amazon, performing surgeries on a hospital truck and boat. Watch these dedicated doctors in action in the latest FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut video about individuals trying to make a difference in the world.
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Nepal: A Girl's Life
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 16, 2007
While trekking in Nepal in 1998, American John Wood saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and that schools in the poorest rural areas had a chronic shortage of books. It was a transformational experience for Wood that spurred him to start a literacy program called Room to Read. This week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut tells the story of Wood's nonprofit that now helps to educate millions of children in the developing world and visits some of the Nepalese communities his program has helped.
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Uganda: Condom Controversy
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Aug 09, 2007
"You must learn how to say no," booms Ugandan evangelical minister Martin Ssempa. "Say 'I do not want to have sex. I have chosen not to have sex.'" So begins this week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut, which looks at the controversy over U.S. funding for AIDS relief in Africa.
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Chicago: Little Mexico
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Thu, Aug 02, 2007
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Elvira Arellano is an illegal Mexican immigrant living in Chicago with a deportation order -- and a 7-year-old American-born son. As a first-generation Polish immigrant who lived in Chicago for nearly 25 years, FRONTLINE/World reporter Marian Marzynski brings a unique perspective to the story of migration to the United States, interweaving Arelleno's story with Chicago's history as an immigrant city.
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Libya: Out of the Shadow
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 26, 2007
Libya is not the first place that springs to mind as a hot-ticket destination. But much has changed in the country in recent years as Libya and its leader Colonel Gaddafi have returned to the diplomatic fold. Who better to explore the mysteries of present-day Libya than our roving world-music reporter Marco Werman? And what better way to get inside the country than to tag along with the 10,000 astronomy enthusiasts who descended on Libya earlier this year to watch the solar eclipse?
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France: Soundtrack to a Riot
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 19, 2007
In this week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut, producer Camille Servan-Schreiber and reporter Marco Werman go to Paris to talk to a multitude of rappers -- some successful, some rapping in their living rooms -- to find out what lay at the heart of last year's riots and how this anger has been expressed in today's rap rebellion.
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Iraq: Law and Disorder
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 12, 2007
This will be the third "Rough Cut" Karzan Sherabayani has produced for FRONTLINE/World from his native city of Kirkuk. To show what residents and the police must face in an increasingly violent city, Sherabayani goes on patrol with the city's police chief, a man he introduces as the most-wanted policeman in Kirkuk, because of the many insurgents who would like to kill him.
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Cuba: The Art Revolution
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jul 05, 2007
Cuba has a long and rich heritage in the arts, but during the last two decades, the visual arts have become a cultural phenomenon. In this week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut, filmmaker Natasha Del Toro travels to Cuba to meet two of its most acclaimed artists and find out why art is at the center of Cuban society.
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India: Calcutta Calling
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 28, 2007
What happens when three teenage girls living in Minnesota decide to visit the land of their birth? All three were adopted as infants from an orphanage in Calcutta, India. In this week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut video, Sasha Khokha follows the girls back to South Asia, as they explore their roots, with curiosity and trepidation.
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Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 21, 2007
There's trouble in paradise. A small island nation in the South Pacific, Tuvalu, is threatened by rising ocean levels believed to be caused by global warming. FRONTLINE/World reporter Elizabeth Pollock travels into the heart of Polynesia, just south of the Equator, to see if the people of Tuvalu will have to abandon the islands they have inhabited for 2,000 years.
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Japan: The Slow Life
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 14, 2007
Tokyo's "bright lights, big city" energy is a beacon to Japanese and foreign tourists alike, but some young Japanese are choosing to slow down, drop out and grow rice. FRONTLINE/World reporter Jason Cohn follows these urban refugees back to the land that others have abandoned.
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South Africa: The Play Pump
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 14, 2007
In rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. In this week's Rough Cut, Africa correspondent Amy Costello brings us a surprisingly upbeat tale about Trevor Field, a canny entrepreneur who decided to tackle South Africa's water woes in his own novel and enterprising way.
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Puerto Rico: Samurai Surfers
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 07, 2007
Angel Rodriguez, aka "El Doctor," is a former accountant turned full-time surfer and coach of Puerto Rico's surf team. He's also a tenacious defender of his marine environment. Just ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that made the mistake of dumping harbor dredge on El Doctor's favorite surf spot. FRONTLINE/World reporter Sachi Cunningham, herself a surfer, ventures to the Caribbean island to tell the tale of El Doctor and his cadre of surfer activists.
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China: The Women's Kingdom
Author: FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Thu, Jun 07, 2007
Meet Lamu and several extraordinary Mosuo women as we travel to "The Women's Kingdom" in southwest China, not far from the Tibetan Buddhist city the Chinese have renamed Shangri-La. Reporter Xiaoli Zhou, who comes from Shanghai, told us she had always wanted to visit the Mosuo region to see for herself how much freedom a woman might enjoy in China.
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