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A new international independent documentary series from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), GLOBAL VOICES samples the best of international documentary. In its premiere season, the series features five all-new global docs and 21 notable international documentaries that have previously aired on PBS in other forums.
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Previous Episodes
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Witnesses to a Secret War
Episode #205
This program tells the stories of three generations of Hmong refugees as they struggle with their personal and political legacies. The Xiong family, who fought on America's side of the "secret" war in Laos, tries to claim their own piece of the American dream while Hmong American Ka Ying Yang tries to understand her own similar family history.
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Monday , February, 08, 2010
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Mirror Dance
Episode #204
This program is the story of Cuban twin sisters, Margarita and Ramona de Saa. Once inseparable, the former ballerinas have been separated for 40 years, one living in Cuba and one living in the United States. The program follows the twins as they grow up in the turbulent 1950's Havana, excel as ballerinas, fall in love and marry men with conflicting political beliefs and painfully separate in 1964. After wrestling for many years with painful memories of her departure, Margarita finally returns to her homeland.
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Saturday , February, 06, 2010
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Afghanistan Unveiled
Episode #203
Filmed by the first-ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this film reveals the effects on Afghan women of the Taliban's repressive rule and of the U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign. Leaving Kabul for the first time and traveling to rural regions of the country, the filmmakers present footage of women whose lives have been decimated by recent events.
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Friday , February, 05, 2010
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The Dictator Hunter
Episode #201
This is a character study of American lawyer Reed Brody, the son of a Holocaust survivor, who fights against all odds to bring an African ex-dictator to justice and his friendship with one of the victims, Souleymane, and the tension between their ideals and the sacrifices they make in their personal lives.
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Thursday , February, 04, 2010
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Father Roy: Inside The School of Assassins
Episode #124
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas) in Fort Benning, Georgia, has, according to one U.S. Congressman, "the nefarious distinction of being the place in the United States where the worst human rights abusers in the Western Hemisphere come to learn military tactics and to teach them." "Father Roy" combines explosive and previously unreported information about torture training at Fort Benning with the extraordinary life story and experiences of Father Roy Bourgeois, the daring activist who is leading the campaign to close down the school.
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Wednesday , February, 03, 2010
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Overbooked
Episode #122
Sergio, a middle-aged Italian, and Youssef, from Morocco, work in a tiny office in Turin managing the weekly bus to the Magreb. Originally just a smart business idea, the agency is now much more than that. Documenting an odd pair in the middle of a changing world, "Overbooked" takes viewers into the chaotic, funny and sometimes tragic moments of the agency.
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Tuesday , February, 02, 2010
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The Flute Player/50/Fifty
Episode #121
Arn Chorn-Pond's family was slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, along with 90 percent of Cambodia's musicians and artists. Now living in the U.S., Arn is attempting to transcend the terrors of "Pol Pot time" by rescuing traditional Cambodian music from extinction. "The Flute Player" relates his journey back to a still-uneasy Cambodia to find surviving "master musicians" and to recover his own Cambodian identity. This episode also includes the short film "50/Fifty," a soulful requiem for a family's past. Using old home movies and hand-processed film, Jane Kim pays homage to the memory of her father, who passed away when she was young.
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Monday , February, 01, 2010
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A Lion's Trail
Episode #120
In the 1920s, Zulu singer Solomon Linda composed "Mbube," a hit melody in his native South Africa. Decades later, it skyrocketed to the top of the international pop charts as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." This program follows the beloved song's rocky history, from South Africa to Brooklyn and back, asking why Linda died penniless - while American artists made millions from his music.
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Saturday , January, 30, 2010
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Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and the United States
Episode #119
Since 1866, Cubans have lovingly played baseball, a game that represented independence and modernity. Both Cuba and the U.S. embraced the game, but in distinct ways. Set against the backdrop of the choppy history of U.S.-Cuban relations, this program documents how both countries have used baseball as a political tool and how the sport has operated as both bridge and barrier between the two lands.
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Friday , January, 29, 2010
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Abc Colombia
Episode #117
This portrait of a small rural community in a part of Colombia controlled entirely by paramilitary forces is rendered through the eyes of the children who grow up there and are often forced into very difficult choices. The documentary follows the young protagonists in this problematic setting through an entire school year, exploring some of the realities that nurture and perpetuate the violence in Colombia.
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Thursday , January, 28, 2010
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Discovering Dominga
Episode #115
This program chronicles the journey of a young Iowa housewife who discovers she is a survivor of a massacre of Maya Indian villagers. The film follows her emotional odyssey of self-discovery and political awakening as she travels from the cornfields of her adopted Iowa to the Maya highlands of Guatemala in search of her past.
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Wednesday , January, 27, 2010
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Great Wall Across The Yangtze
Episode #114
This program tells the story of the controversy surrounding the construction of the the world's largest dam and hydroelectric power plant, Three Gorges, across the legendary Yangtze river. The story is told by some of the people most affected: the engineer who believes in his country and its urgent need for new sources of power and flood control; the people who are being forcibly relocated to make way for the immense reservoir; the biologist who works to find ways to save the Baiji River dolphin from extinction; and the archaeologist who attempts to recover ancient artifacts before time runs out.
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Tuesday , January, 26, 2010
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After The Fall
Episode #113
How could the most important artifact of the last half-century completely vanish? Gone is the wall between East and West, communism and capitalism, but not the conflict. "After the Fall" is an exquisitely filmed portrait of a city, recounting the story and disappearance of the most absurd of the world's constructions: the Berlin Wall.
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Monday , January, 25, 2010
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Refugee
Episode #112
Mike Siv is going to meet his dad and brother for the first time since he escaped Cambodia as a kid. Days before his departure, his mother reveals some shocking news from Cambodia: his father is remarried, has another family and his younger brother Nang was raised by an aunt.
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Saturday , January, 23, 2010
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For God, Tsar and Fatherland
Episode #111
Mikhail Morozov is a Russian patriot, good Christian and successful businessman. He owns "Durakovo" -- "village of fools" -- 100 km southwest of Moscow. People come here from all over Russia to forget their troubles and become members of a happy village society. When they join the Village of Fools, the new residents abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Mikhail Morozov's strict rules. "What we have here is a democracy, it is a managed democracy, in which everyone has his place and in which everyone lives transparent lives, " says Morozov. The whole spectrum of state power -- political, spiritual and administrative -- gathers in the village for semi-private meetings with Morozov. All of them are Russian patriots. They discuss the future of Russia, their future and their aims.
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Friday , January, 22, 2010
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T-Shirt Travels
Episode #110
"T-Shirt Travels" is the story of how secondhand clothing, given away as charity in the western world, ends up in Zambia, Africa. Through this journey and by sharing the lives of those that trade and sell these clothes, this documentary explores the underlying reasons why so many Africans remain in poverty.
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Thursday , January, 21, 2010
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The Day My God Died
Episode #108
This documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade. They describe the day they were abducted from their village and sold into sexual servitude as, "The Day My God Died." The film provides footage from the brothels of Bombay, known even to tourists as "The Cages," captured with "spy camera" technology. It weaves the stories of girls, and their stolen hopes and dreams, with an examination of the growing plague of child sex slavery.
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Wednesday , January, 20, 2010
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The Devil Never Sleeps
Episode #107
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo received a phone call informing her of the mysterious death of her wealthy Mexican uncle Oscar. Though officially ruled a suicide, Portillo's relatives claimed murder, offering several possible suspects, including a business partner, a ranch hand and Oscar's young widow, who stood to inherit everything. Traveling to Mexico, Portillo attempts to learn the truth about her powerful uncle. Using interviews, old snapshots and home movies, she finds a complicated web of family secrets, intrigue, rumor and betrayal that makes her enigmatic uncle's murder seem ever more likely, yet ever more obscure. As the Mexican saying goes, "When evil is lurking, the devil never sleeps."
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Tuesday , January, 19, 2010
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Bridge Over The Wadi
Episode #106
For the first time in Israel, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decides to establish a bi-national, bilingual grade school in the Wadi Ara village. This program follows the school's first year and shows how fragile the attempt is to create an environment of co-existence against the backdrop of the complicated reality of its subjects.
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Monday , January, 18, 2010
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Anatomy of a Springroll
Episode #105
This program chronicles one man's journey from the food-filled streets of San Francisco to the back streets of Saigon as he searches for the secret ingredient to blend the traditions of his family's culture with his adopted American life.
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Saturday , January, 16, 2010
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Sumo East and West
Episode #104
Steeped in the sanctity of Japanese tradition stretching back thousands of years, sumo has recently seen an increasing number of foreigners making their mark on the sumo scene. Taking viewers from Hawaii to Japan to Los Angeles, the film profiles some of the most prominent American wrestlers. This fascinating glimpse of the past, present and future of sumo illustrates the intersection of cultures as the hallowed sport grapples with the forces of internationalization.
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Friday , January, 15, 2010
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Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks In America
Episode #103
The famous fighting monks of the Shaolin Monastery have seen a resurgence throughout the world, aided in part by the popularity of kung-fu movies among the hip-hop set and films like The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This film follows a handful of Shaolin monks who have brought the style to America, chronicling their adventures in New York City, Houston and Las Vegas.
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Thursday , January, 14, 2010
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Circus School
Episode #101
The Flying Trapeze Group and Handstand Group are training hard for the national contest but end up differently. Children of the trapeze group win the championship heroically after conquering a number of difficulties. The handstand group gives up the contest because of the training fatigue. This is a story about competition, survival and the hard experiences of a group of children before they become acrobats.
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Wednesday , January, 13, 2010
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Revolucion
Episode #226
This program tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades and whose perspectives on photography are as varied as their opinions about the Cuban Revolution. From photographers whose lenses portrayed the heroic masses to more contemporary photographers who seek to portray individual truths, their stories discover the power of art to liberate.
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Tuesday , January, 12, 2010
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Archeology of Memory
Episode #225
This musical journey follows exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz, from the Bay Area to Chile and back, as he creates his masterwork --a multimedia installation to heal his wounds inflicted by state-sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime.
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Monday , January, 11, 2010
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Hell of a Nation/Omelette
Episode #224
HELL OF A NATION: In Afghanistan in 2003, the road to becoming a delegate was almost as difficult as the terrain itself; only a fraction of Afghans would be elected to attend the country's constitutional convention, the Loya Jirga. This program offers an intimate look at two candidates struggling to participate in this landmark event.OMELETTE: While a woman in Sofia tries makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet.
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Saturday , January, 09, 2010
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End of Waiting Time
Episode #223
In 1936, General Francisco Franco led a coup d'etat against the Spanish Republic that gave rise to a brutal civil war. During his long dictatorship, hundreds of people were arrested or executed or disappeared. Today, family members of those who vanished have begun to look for their relatives' remains; they reflect on that dark period and its ongoing effect on their lives.
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Friday , January, 08, 2010
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Pickles
Episode #222
In the Israeli Arab village of Tamra, in Galilee, eight widows challenge social conventions and establish the Azka Pickle Cooperative, seeking financial independence for themselves and their children. With little formal education and no work experience outside of the home, the women face endless hurdles in expanding their business start-up -- while their personal lives reflect the joys and sadness of family weddings, bereavement and loneliness.
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Thursday , January, 07, 2010
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Seoul Train/The Chestnut Tree
Episode #221
SEOUL TRAIN: A growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis is threatening East Asian peace: the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China. This program exposes the complex geopolitics and bureaucracy entangling the lives of thousands of North Korean refugees as well as the story of activists who put themselves in harm's way to save them via a clandestine underground railroad.THE CHESTNUT TREE: This short animated film is a tribute to the filmmaker's lost mother.
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Wednesday , January, 06, 2010
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En Route to Baghdad
Episode #219
Prior to his death in a Baghdad bombing attack in 2003, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello devoted his life to global humanitarian efforts in countries such as Mozambique, Cambodia and East Timor. "En Route to Baghdad" is a portrait of Vieira de Mello and his extraordinary career and a tragic metaphor for the effort to bring stability to Iraq.
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Tuesday , January, 05, 2010
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The New Americans - Part 7
Episode #217
In the final episode, most characters become more settled in the U.S. - buying homes, raising children, pursuing American educations and mates - but the Indian couple goes home with no plans to return. While the Palestinian woman questions her place in the U.S. after 9/11, a daughter in the impoverished Mexican family states that U.S. citizenship is the only dream she feels she might ever attain.
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Monday , January, 04, 2010
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The New Americans - Part 6
Episode #216
In the sixth episode, one Nigerian family falls behind, while the other finds success. The Mexican family also struggles. The Palestinian and Indian couples are strained by time apart. One of the Dominicans makes his Major League debut.
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Saturday , January, 02, 2010
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The New Americans - Part 5
Episode #215
The fifth episode introduces an Indian computer programmer planning to work in Silicon Valley. Things progress well for the Dominican baseball players, the Palestinian couple becomes more involved in their community and the Mexican family arrives in Kansas.
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Friday , January, 01, 2010
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