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Wide Angle: Window into Global History

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
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.	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.	9-12	Video
A Tale of Two Heavens: Escaping North Korea In this lesson, students will learn about the conditions in authoritarian North Korea that have compelled many North Koreans to attempt a dangerous escape to what they see as the “Heaven” of capitalist South Korea.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Brainwashed In this video, excerpted from Wide Angle, a North Korean defector attempts to convince her younger sister to stay with her in Seoul rather than return to North Korea.	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.	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.	9-12	Video
Flight to Freedom In this video from Wide Angle, a North Korean defector must leave her son behind as she attempts an escape from China to South Korea using a forged passport.	9-12	Video
Heaven on Earth This Wide Angle video offers a look inside North Korea since the 1994 ascension to power of “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il.	9-12	Video
Illegal in Beijing In this Wide Angle video, view a city area where illegal migrants from rural China live and work.	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.	9-12	Video
Migrant Workers Migrant construction workers from rural China describe their living conditions in Beijing in this Wide Angle video segment.	9-12	Video
One Nation: Two Futures? Showcasing the differing viewpoints of "haves" and "have-nots," this lesson covers economic and political shifts in China. (China)	9-12	Lesson Plan
One Party This video segment from Wide Angle describes the communist Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea.	9-12	Video
Political Debate in Turkey A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
Rwanda - You Go, Girls! How is the empowerment of women linked to their legal and human rights? Postwar Rwanda yields some answers. (Rwanda)	9-12	Lesson Plan
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.	9-12	Video
Women in Parliament In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about the representation of women in Rwanda’s parliament.	9-12	Video
Worth the Risk? A glimpse of the human drama—and tragedy—which unfolds regularly on the Tumen River dividing North Korea and China: North Korean defectors risking everything to escape the oppressive regime of Kim Jong Il. Excerpted from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video