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- "Liberia, a nation burdened by its past. America, a nation with no memory at all." In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal. Two armies engage in the final battle of a decade long civil war. Hundreds of innocent civilians die from mortar shells launched from afar and thousands more suffer hunger while the soldiers, mostly teenagers, keep the capital city under siege. The nation prays that America, the world's sole superpower, will put an end to the violence. Conceived in Washington in the early 1800s, its constitution written at Harvard, its founding fathers freed slaves who returned to Africa, Liberia is the one country in the world worthy of the title, Made in America. By the year 2000, Liberia, once considered the gem of Africa, was ranked last in the world for quality of life.
- Diamond Road is a three-part series and 96 minute feature documentary exploring the historical, cultural and socio-political facets of the world's most intriguing gem. Boring deep into the diamond world, the series seeks to understand the multiple meanings of an object that is as old as the earth itself. Diamond Road is an intimate and broad-ranging picture of a complex and historically rich world. Key to the series are the people who represent the different stages on the diamond pipeline. They are our guides, our window into a fascinating industry that spans continents and centuries and the deep shifts of history. We journey to Canada's North with a geologist seeking diamonds in a harsh land. We meet top dealers and jewelers of New York, centre of the trade in high-end goods and gateway to the US market. We travel to India, the massive engine of the cutting and polishing industry and now a burgeoning retail market. We journey to Sierra Leone where diamonds are slowly morphing into a tool for development. In South Africa, we meet black diamond entrepreneurs and others who are intent on rewriting their country's troubled history. We travel to Antwerp, heart of the rough trade where an old Jewish master cutter works his magic, and we learn how so many Jewish people were given a second chance at life through diamonds. We meet the passionate collectors willing to pay a small fortune for a stone born at the stroke of creation. And we meet the influential decision-makers who keep the diamond world turning.
- On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse. This day is now acknowledged as one of most perilous on the whole of the Cold War.
- Members of an Arkansas National Guard unit are transformed from weekend warriors to full-fledged soldiers for the war in Iraq.
- A.Q. Khan -- a rogue Pakistani scientist - has done more than any other person or country to spread nuclear weapons around the world. Name a nuclear hot spot... and Khan's clients are there. This is story of one man's deadly legacy that spread around the world... how he managed to get away with it for so long... and how the nuclear seeds he helped plant could explode anytime, anywhere around the globe. With exclusive interviews from top world players such as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Nobel peace Prize winner Mohammed ELBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
- A profile of seven Afghan children's lives in the aftermath of war and terror.
- In an unprecedented mission, Sorious Samura set out to understand the real stories of people living on the edge of starvation. He moved into a remote village in Ethiopia far away from the range of the UN and most NGO's. Between August and September Sorious lived in a hut and survived on the same meagre diet as the rest of the villagers. As he arrived in the village Sorious got an unpleasant surprise. The villagers made it clear he was not welcome. 'They think you are the Devil' he is told. In the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition the devil indeed is usually depicted as a very black being, blacker than most villagers. It takes Sorious much persuasion to convince the villagers that he will not eat their babies and hasn't come to rape their wives. Very soon Sorious settles into the routine of the village. He is amazed and exhausted by the hard work he must do to keep up with the villagers as they climb steep slopes to plough and till their fields every day. Despite the weather failing them on so many previous occasions the villagers always have hope that their next harvest will bring the food they so desperately need. Kirkos, Ethiopia There is food aid, but never enough. Sorious is living with a family where the meagre supplies supposed to last for two months have run out in two weeks. Now Mum and Dad, five children and Sorious must survive on a local weed called wild cabbage. A grown man would need to eat a room full of wild cabbage to satisfy a day's nutritional requirement, but the plant, even though it makes the villagers sick, fills stomachs and at least gives the sense of food. Sorious has made friends with the deacons. Young boys who receive religious education but must beg for their school fees and for the food that they eat. Together they travel to other remote villages and eventually to the town of Lalibela to beg or to find work if they can. It is an awful journey, which brings us painfully close to the real lives of the poor. Away from the headline making famine, award-winning filmmaker Sorious Samura discovers that the daily reality for more than 40 million Africans is a diet ranging from nothing to a handful of weeds. In his unique style of filmmaking he questions how we can expect Africa to develop when so many Africans are engaged in a daily struggle to survive.
- This documentary features the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). It follows agents of the DSS as they protect the Secretary of State in locations around the world. It also shows behind the scene footage of agents as they train for assignments in high threat locations such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- RE-INVENTING THE TALIBAN brings a uniquely personal perspective to the disturbing rise of radical Islamic fundamentalism within Pakistan. In the documentary, Ms. Obaid, despite warnings of the dangers, visits Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, the center of the MMA alliance, to meet with supporters of the fundamentalist movement, including outspoken leaders and ordinary working people. She also travels to Lahore in the northeastern region of the country where she meets with secular Pakistanis who compose the country's progressive Muslim majority, attends a musical concert sponsored by a political party opposed to the MMA and visits a fashion show where Pakistani women wear chic western clothing. A remarkable portrait of people and places rarely seen.
- A look at Patrick Henry College in Virginia, an evangelical Christian college which was created specifically for students who have been home-schooled, with the intent of developing future leaders with a faith-based background.
- The women's rights movement in Saudi Arabia.
- "Venezuela: Revolution in Progress" gives unique insight into the forces that almost unseated President Hugo Chavez in a recall election during the summer of 2004. In Venezuela truth becomes a relative term as an increasingly polarized population grapples with Chavez and his agenda. Chavez promises a revolution that will redistribute the country's oil wealth to the poor, and uses the history of the United States' complicated relationship with Venezuela and South America to rally support to his side. "Venezuela: Revolution in Progress" is at once the story of democracy - Venezuelan-style, and a snapshot of the unraveling of U.S. foreign policy.
- Jack The Ripper was the first modern serial killer. To this day his reign of terror remains one of history's greatest mysteries: motiveless, unmatched in brutality, and still unsolved. Now Laura Richards of Scotland Yard's Violent Crime Directorate re-opens the case. With the benefits of modern criminology and psychological analysis, and working with a team of experts, Richards uses 21st century techniques to understand a 19th century killer, dispelling the many myths that have grown up around the case. The results completely change our understanding of Jack The Ripper, providing a detailed psychological study of the kind of person he was, where he lived and even what he may have looked like.
- This program explores the history of film's ethnic "bad guy," looking at sociopolitical and economic forces that create, perpetuate and rehabilitate these characters. Special attention is paid to current depictions of Muslims onscreen.
- "Race for the Derby" follows the story of Jockeys training for the Kentucky Derby
- Sorious Samura lives for four weeks with with refuges from Darfur on the border of Sudan and Chad.
- Ted Koppel leads a discussion with Nobel laureates including Elie Wiesel (winner in 1986 for peace), Wole Solinka (winner in 1986 for literature), Eric Kandel (winner in 2000 for medicine), the Dalai Lama (winner in 1989 for peace) and Betty Williams (winner in 1976 for peace).
- A behind-the-scenes look at the development and launch of "Jimmy Kimmel Live".
- A frightening historical and current examination of improvised explosive devices, and what is being done to stop them.
- College freshman Cassandra Hailey and Keith Call left for their first date on April 9, 1988 and were never seen again. Now, police investigators have agreed to bring in psychics Pam Coronado and Laurie Campbell to breathe new life into this cold case.