Frontline/World
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Troubled Water
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S 2010 : Ep 06.29.10 - 6/29/10
Southern Africa: Troubled Water: What happened to the promise of the PlayPump? Haiti: The Rice Dilemma: The third in a series of FRONTLINE reports on Haiti with correspondent Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money. West Papua: The Clever One In the remote highlands of Indonesia, an American artist finds a peculiar bird with a special talent.moreless -
Pakistan Under Siege
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S 2009 : Ep 05.26.09 - 5/26/09
In this special edition, three stories from a country battling for its own survival. -
Children of the Taliban
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S 2009 : Ep 04.14.09 - 4/14/09
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes a dangerous journey through Pakistan to investigate the recruitment methods of a militant branch of the Taliban; Correspondent Douglas Rushkoff travels to South Korea to see how the country's digital revolution is changing the place and its people.moreless -
Taking on the Mafia
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S 2009 : Ep 01.26.09 - 1/26/09
The inside story of a group of shop owners and young activists who stood up to the powerful Sicilian mafia. Carola Mamberto explores the story of a restaurant owner - backed by an upstart anti-mafia movement of young people and an elite law enforcement team - who refused to pay the mafia's monthly "tax," taking a stand against mob bosses who've kept Italy in their grip for decades.moreless -
The Choice 2008
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S 2009 : Ep 01.12.09 - 1/12/09
This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their very different candidacies say about America.moreless -
The War Briefing
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S 2009 : Ep 01.12.09 - 1/12/09
Can the war in Afghanistan be won? A hard, inside look at the real policy choices facing the next president. The War Briefing won the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography, Timothy Grucza, cameraman.moreless -
Jesus in China
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S 2008 : Ep 06.23.08 - 6/23/08
As the world spotlight hits China this summer, reporter Evan Osnos goes inside one of the country's most important, but least understood movements - China's underground churches. -
Crimes at the Border
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S 2008 : Ep 05.26.08 - 5/26/08
In a joint project with The New York Times, correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the business of human smuggling across the busy ports of entry between Mexico and the United States. -
State of Emergency
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S 2008 : Ep 02.25.08 - 2/25/08
FRONTLINE/WORLD correspondent David Montero ventures into the mountainous Swat Valley where the Pakistani army is fighting Taliban insurgents. It is a place off-limits to most Western journalists, but Montero manages to uncover the story of a mysterious and ruthless Pakistani Taliban leader and meets the moderate local politician who tried to stop him. This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine.moreless -
Russia: Island on the Edge
Segment
5/17/07
Sakhalin Island is what international oilmen might call a "hardship post." It is on the very edge of the Russian Far East, the historic equivalent of America's Wild West. The narrow, 600-mile-long island is populated by only half a million people, and its seasons are severe even by Russian standards. But underneath the surface of the island and the surrounding seas is enough oil and gas to power the United States for as much as a decade. Ten years ago, energy giants Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and other multinationals negotiated contracts with a Russian government hard up for cash and eager for foreign investment. Deals were made to extract Sakhalin's oil and gas for export to markets from Shanghai to San Diego. Moscow was promised a cut of the profits once the projects got out of the red. Sakhalin Island Then the protests started ... over environmental damage, public health and the rights of indigenous peoples. For the most part, Moscow stayed out of the fray. But then, in 2006, with construction nearing completion on Shell's Sakhalin 2, the world's largest oil and gas project, the Kremlin intervened. The project was shut down, and the Russian national gas company, Gazprom, maneuvered to take it over. Some energy experts viewed it as a nationalist takeover under the guise of environmental protection.moreless
