FRONTLINE/World | PBS
Summary: Each episode of FRONTLINE/World on PBS features two or three short stories told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists. These first-person stories will take viewers on adventurous journeys to foreign lands from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Taking advantage of easily portable digital cameras, our correspondents roam widely, observe closely, and when necessary, film surreptitiously. By presenting viewers with compelling stories from around the planet, the series aims to not only help fill the void in current international news coverage but also to engage the American public in global stories that resonate in their own lives.
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Reporter Nadene Ghouri travels to Kabul, Afghanistan, to see how General Ali Shah Paktiawal and his Criminal Investigations Department are policing this dangerous city.
Correspondent Lowell Bergman sits down with investigative journalist Fredrik Laurin to discuss Laurin's documentary "Gripen: The Secret Deals," which exposed massive corruption in the sale of Swedish fighter jets to the Czech Republic.
FRONTLINE/World's Joe Rubin gets reaction from reporter Jason Motlagh, who has just returned from spending two months with U.S. troops in troubled Afghan provinces along the Pakistan border.
Carola Mamberto reports on the invisible hand of the Mafia in Palermo, Italy, and tells the story of a movement of young people fighting back.
Reporter David Montero tries to understand why a group of Bangladeshi soldiers went on a killing spree earlier this week, leaving at least 56 senior officers dead.
The strange odyssey of five Muslim men from China, captured in Pakistan after 9/11, imprisoned in Guantanamo for seven years, then forcibly resettled in Albania, illustrates the problems facing the Obama administration as it tries to shut down the controversial prison.
FRONTLINE/World travels to Uganda to explore how one San Francisco-based nonprofit is using the Web to forge a more direct connection between lenders in the U.S. and borrowers in developing countries.
Reporter Ben Pauker investigates China's growing influence in the resource-rich Congo, as they continue to supply weapons as an entree to other enterprises such as mining.
Reporter Edwin O'Kongo returns to his native country to find great expectations awaiting both him and Barack Obama, another man with Kenyan roots.
Obama-mania has reached Brazil, where political candidates like Claudio Henrique are trying to catch the wave by taking the U.S. presidential candidate's name.
Reporter Nguyen Qui Duc returns to Vietnam to find a country re-examining its complicated relationship with the U.S. -- and an American war hero running for president.
Filmmaker Gwynne Roberts and a team of human rights investigators set off on a dangerous journey across Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000 Kurdish men and boys who went missing in the early years of Saddam's rule.
Norwegian filmmaker Beate Arnestad goes deep inside the hidden world of Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers to try to understand the mind of a suicide bomber.
One year after the Burmese military regime's violent confrontation with hundreds of thousands of dissident monks protesting for democracy, the junta has only intensified its crackdown on democracy activists.
FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff follows Naif al-Mutawa, creator of the Muslim superhero comic The 99, as he markets his comics across the Middle East, hoping to spread a moderate, modern image of Islam.
