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70% Female This Wide Angle video features the women of Rwanda who have emerged as outspoken leaders and the great strides they have made toward rights and equality. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
All-Female Enterprise This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
All for One In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the influence of the communist values of organization, discipline and collectivism on North Korean society. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
At the University of Brasilia Consider the opposing views on the policy implemented at the University of Brasilia in this Wide Angle video. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
The Beginning of the Cold War American Experience: This Cold War video examines the steps that Harry Truman took to provide American support for governments threatened by the spread of Communism, a policy that came to be known as the Truman Doctrine. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	9-12	Video
Breaking New Ground This video from Wide Angle provides a look at some of the women who are leading Rwanda in government, business and promoting peace. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Cauca's Most Valuable Resources This video segment from Women, War & Peace introduces Cauca, a resource-rich region in Colombia whose residents are threatened with internal displacement due to the interests of potential investors. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Censorship In this Wide Angle video, the people behind Kalam Nawaem, or “Sweet Talk,” a popular Arab television, discuss how they must carefully choose their topics and tone to not only increase audience interest, but to keep their program on the air. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Church for Sale This Wide Angle video reports on the sale of The Sacred Heart Church in central Limerick, Ireland which has been holding services for almost 150 years. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Complications of Identity This video from Wide Angle tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Detainees In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Economic Boom In this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Empowerment This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that presence of women at peace talks is essential. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Fashion Show In this video from Wide Angle, visit Istanbul, Turkey for the fashion show of Tekbir, a clothing line of conservative fashions for Muslim women. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
The Fence In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about the fence that is part of the border security system between Botswana and Zimbabwe. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Foot and Mouth In this Wide Angle video, learn about the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Botswana. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Grozny University Dr. Dadashev, a professor of physics on the shattered campus of Grozny University, conducts a tour of the war-torn campus in this video segment from Wide Angle. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Guerilla War In this video from Wide Angle, learn about Chechen rebels who have turned to guerilla warfare in order to combat Russian military forces. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
The High Cost of Progress Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India in this video from Wide Angle. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Human Security This video from Women, War & Peace, introduces the idea of “human security” as is an individual’s and or a community’s feeling of security Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Learn about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in this video from Worldfocus. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Illegal in Beijing In this Wide Angle video, view a city area where illegal migrants from rural China live and work. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Increased Immigration Meet two sisters who have migrated from Poland to Ireland, one of three countries in the EU that welcomes immigrant workers from Eastern Europe, in this Wide Angle video. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Industry and Islam This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
In Pursuit of Democracy In this video from Women, War & Peace, learn about the efforts of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia to further democracy and peace after the end of Liberian civil war in 2003. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Israel and Palestine This Wide Angle video features Majdi Amer, a 25-year-old Palestinian, who describes the daily state of violence and conflict in Israel and the occupied territories. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Jefferson: Safe Haven In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about the safe haven that school provides for the children of Brazil’s shantytowns. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Jefferson: The Bolsa Familia The challenges of growing up in one of Brazil’s largest favelas (shantytowns) are the focus of this Wide Angle video. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Joab: The Class Prefect This video from Wide Angle profiles Joab, a boy from Kibera, Kenya, who has returned to school after dropping out following his mother’s death. Joab is chosen class prefect by the other students. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Ken & Joab: A Comparison This Wide Angle video segment provides a comparison of two classrooms in the state-supported free primary schools of Japan and Kenya. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Labor Disputes In this Wide Angle video, view a case study of the mediation of a disagreement between an employee and his former employer in China’s courts. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Legal System Expansion This Wide Angle video provides an overview of the expansion of the legal system in China as market forces lead to new circumstances requiring legal solutions. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Life & Debt The daily struggle of an Indian woman left widowed by her husband’s suicide is the focus of this Wide Angle video. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Martyrdom In this video from Wide Angle, 18-year-old Mohanned Abu Tayyoun discusses the reasons behind his decision to conduct a martyr operation. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Migrant Workers Migrant construction workers from rural China describe their living conditions in Beijing in this Wide Angle video segment. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Migrant Workers and Social Justice Chinese migrant workers give insight into their status, lack of power and vulnerability in the new economic order in this video from Wide Angle. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Modern Boom Family This Wide Angle video explores the effects of economic prosperity and secularization on family structure and beliefs in Ireland. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Nanavi In this video segment from Wide Angle, meet Nanavi, a young girl in Benin who has a rare opportunity to go to school. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Neeraj Neeraj, a young girl in rural India who performs her household chores during the day and goes to school at night, is profiled in this video segment from Wide Angle. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video