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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.
- 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.
- Members of an Arkansas National Guard unit are transformed from weekend warriors to full-fledged soldiers for the war in Iraq.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sorious Samura lives for four weeks with with refuges from Darfur on the border of Sudan and Chad.
- The women's rights movement in Saudi Arabia.
- "Race for the Derby" follows the story of Jockeys training for the Kentucky Derby
- 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).