Every year this nation’s economy struggles to absorb 20 million new unemployed, while the newly-rich move to gated communities with private schools and tennis courts. If this sounds like Daddy Warbucks’ America, it isn’t. It’s the new China. Watch. (Originally aired: 7/18/2002).
In interviews with scientists and eyewitnesses, NATURE probes the evidence that some animals may have senses that allow them to predict impending natural disasters long before we can. The show reexamines ancient ideas about how animals can predict disaster, which are now gaining credence in scientific circles. Watch. (Originally aired: 11/13/2005)
Can Lebanon, a country of 18 different ethnic groups that fought a 15-year civil war, achieve independence from foreign interference and overcome renewed division within? The film “Future for Lebanon” takes viewers to the oldest democracy in the Middle East as voters go to the polls in a new era. Watch. (Originally aired: 7/19/2005).
Unique to North America, they are one of nature’s largest raptors, with wings that can span 8 feet, and nests that can weigh up to a ton. American Eagle provides the ultimate bird’s eye view into the private life of an American icon. Watch now. (Originally aired: Nov. 16, 2008)
Wide Angle visits the city of Limerick– once a slum in Ireland known as “stab city” and the impoverished setting of the best-selling memoir Angela’s Ashes. The Limerick of today has all the main ingredients of change, including foreign investment, a miniature property boom and a burgeoning services industry. Watch. (Originally aired: 7/18/2006).
The republic of Chechnya has been embroiled for years in a war for self-determination against Russia. Film crews accompany Russian troops on “cleansing missions” in Grozny, and spend 24 tense hours at a Russian checkpoint. They also go undercover in the border regions where a radical Islam increasingly motivates Chechen fighters. Watch. (Originally aired: 8/25/2007).
At a moment when India is enjoying record economic growth, Wide Angle turns to Vidarbha’s four million cotton farmers who have been left behind, struggling to survive on less than two dollars a day. Watch. (Originally aired: 8/28/2007).
At the Havana Boxing Academy on the outskirts of Cuba’s capital, boys hand-picked as future Olympians live and train at the academy with a single purpose: to bring home the gold. This report follows the boys’ dramatic path over 8 months of training for the annual National Boxing Championships. Watch. (Originally aired 7/2/2007).
