All-Female Enterprise

This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.

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Arduous March

In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the Arduous March, a dark period of hardship and famine in recent North Korean history.

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Barshefsky Interview

In this video from Wide Angle, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative in the Clinton Administration, discusses her views on economic change in China.

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Beijing Riviera

This video from Wide Angle takes viewers to the Beijing Riviera, an exclusive gated community for elites who have access to luxury goods and services on an unprecedented scale.

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Changes in Turkey

In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.

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The Cost of Human Rights

This video segment from Women, War & Peace follows Clemencia Carabali, a community activist from Cauca,Columbia as she travels to Washington, D.C. to share with congressional staffers the perspective of Cauca’s residents who are facing displacement.

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Cycle of Violence

In this video segment from Women, War & Peace, the eviction date for residents of La Toma, Columbia has been set by the mayor.

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Declining Profits

In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the farmers of Vidarbha in central India who have seen a loss in profits due to the high cost of borrowing money and the low prices for their crops in a globalized market.

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Economic Boom

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation.

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Empowerment

This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that presence of women at peace talks is essential.

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Farm and City

This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.

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Farmer's Dilemma

In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country’s economic boom.

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Farmers in Peril

In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.

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The Female Workforce

Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.

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Foot and Mouth

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Botswana.

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Haiti: The Aid Dilemma

From FRONTLINE Haiti: The Aid Dilemma, students will examine post-quake disruptions to supply and demand in Haiti’s rice industry.

The High Cost of Progress

Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India in this video from Wide Angle.

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Industry and Islam

This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.

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Legal Struggles

This video segment from Women, War & Peace explains how the legal struggles of Cauca and La Toma began 10 years ago in Columbia, when Héctor Sarria was granted a license to mine gold in the mountain.

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Life & Debt

The daily struggle of an Indian woman left widowed by her husband’s suicide is the focus of this Wide Angle video.

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New Confidence

This Wide Angle video looks at the reservations that a traditional Indian family had about their daughter taking a job in India’s outsourcing industry.

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A New Start for Urkada

An Indian cotton farmer, widowed by the suicide of her husband, starts a new season on her farm in this video segment from Wide Angle.

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New Worker Class

In this Wide Angle video, Dwanzhi She, a "gold-collar" worker in Beijing, gives viewers a tour of his new apartment.

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Night Transport

This video from Wide Angle looks at transportation needs and services provided for the workers of India’s outsourcing industry.

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Pickle Business

Widows from the village of Tamra in the Galilee manage all of the aspects of their small business in this video segment from Wide Angle.

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Private Money Lenders

The practices of illegal private money lenders in the rural region of Vidarbha, India are highlighted in this video from Wide Angle.

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Return to the Land?

This video segment from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the determination of residents of La Tomato resist the pending evictions from their land.

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Self-Reliance

This Wide Angle video segment takes a look at the North Korean ideology of self-reliance that both farmers and other workers uphold.

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Shopping Culture

This video from Wide Angle provides a look at the new opportunities and consumerism created by the success of India’s outsourcing sector.

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Sick Around the World

From FRONTLINE Sick Around the World, this video explores what the U.S. can learn from other countries' health systems.

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Small Business

This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda’s new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.

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Southern Africa: Troubled Water

From FRONTLINE/World Southern Africa: Troubled Water, students will explore the problems during the PlayPump rollout and analyze the lessons learned from implementing this foreign aid project.

Transformed Workplaces

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.

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The Value of a Girl

In this video from Wide Angle, meet Santosh Kohli, a worker in India's BPO industry who hails from a family of modest means.

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Widows in Israel

In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.

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