This is a list of episodes for the PBS documentary television series Wide Angle .
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Saddam's Ultimate Solution" | Gwynne Roberts | 1 | July 11, 2002 |
2 | "To Have and Have Not" | Jon Alpert | 1 | July 18, 2002 [lower-alpha 1] |
3 | "Greetings from Grozny" | Paul Mitchell and Tania Rakhmanova | 5 | July 25, 2002 |
4 | "Land of Wandering Souls" | Rithy Panh | — | August 1, 2002 |
5 | "The Empty ATM" | Angus MacQueen | 2 | August 8, 2002 |
6 | "Bitter Harvest" | TBA | — | August 22, 2002 |
7 | "Growing Up Global" | Bruno Sorrentino | 1 | August 29, 2002 |
8 | "Cause for Murder" | Pamela Yates | — | September 5, 2002 |
9 | "Media by Milosevic" | Leslie Woodhead | — | September 12, 2002 |
10 | "Soul of India" | Steven Silver | 1 | September 19, 2002 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Exclusive to al-Jazeera" | TBA | 1 | July 10, 2003 |
2 | "The Rock Star and the Mullahs" | Ruhi Hamid and Angus MacQueen | 1 | July 17, 2003 |
3 | "AIDS Warriors" | TBA | 1 | July 24, 2003 |
4 | "Coca and the Congressman" | Jon Alpert | 1 | August 7, 2003 |
5 | "Citizen Berlusconi – The Prime Minister and the Press" | Susan Gray | 1 | August 21, 2003 |
6 | "Road to Riches" | Mandy Jacobson | — | August 28, 2003 |
7 | "Time for School" | TBA | 2 | September 4, 2003 [lower-alpha 2] |
8 | "A State of Mind" | Dan Gordon | 2 | September 11, 2003 |
9 | "The Dammed" | Franny Armstrong | — | September 18, 2003 |
10 | "Dying to Leave" | Chris Hilton and Aaron Woolf | 6 | September 25, 2003 [lower-alpha 3] |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Suicide Bombers" | Tom Roberts | 2 | July 1, 2004 |
2 | "The Russian Newspaper Murders" | Paul Jenkins | 1 | July 8, 2004 |
3 | "Ladies First" | Gini Reticker | 4 | July 22, 2004 |
4 | "Sahara Marathon" | Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño | — | August 19, 2004 |
5 | "Young, Muslim, and French" | TBA | 1 | August 26, 2004 |
6 | "Hell of a Nation" | Tamara Gould | 3 | September 9, 2004 |
7 | "An Honest Citizen" | Angus MacQueen | 2 | September 16, 2004 |
8 | "Red Lines and Deadlines" | Taghi Amirani | 2 | September 23, 2004 [lower-alpha 4] |
9 | "The Saudi Question" | TBA | 1 | October 7, 2004 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate | |
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— | "White Smoke" | TBA | — | April 26, 2005 | |
A look at the process of selecting a new pope in the days following the death of Pope John Paul II. |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Beslan: Siege of School No. 1" | Kevin Sim | 1 | July 12, 2005 |
2 | "Future for Lebanon" | Paul Mitchell | — | July 19, 2005 |
3 | "Border Jumpers" | Peter Hutchens and Ryan Hill | 1 | July 26, 2005 |
4 | "Gutted" | David Peat | 1 | August 23, 2005 |
5 | "Pickles, Inc." | Dalit Kimor | 2 | August 30, 2005 |
6 | "Unfinished Country" | Whitney Dow | — | September 6, 2005 |
7 | "1-800-INDIA" | Safina Uberoi | 4 | September 13, 2005 |
8 | "HSN1 · Killer Flu" | Steven Silver | 2 | September 20, 2005 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "18 with a Bullet" | Ricardo Pollack | 1 | July 11, 2006 [lower-alpha 5] |
2 | "Mixed Blessings" | Darragh Byrne | — | July 18, 2006 |
3 | "Class of 2006" | Gini Reticker | — | July 25, 2006 |
4 | "Flying Down to Kabul" | Simone Aaberg Kaern and Magnus Bejmar | — | August 1, 2006 |
5 | "Turkey's Tigers" | Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill | 1 | August 22, 2006 |
6 | "Ransom City" | Benito Montorio | — | August 29, 2006 |
7 | "Back to School" | Judy Katz | 3 | September 5, 2006 [lower-alpha 6] |
8 | "Democracy in the Rough" | Fred de Sam Lazaro | — | September 12, 2006 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate | |
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— | "Pilgrimage To Karbala" | Kevin Sim | — | March 26, 2007 | |
This is a 90-minute episode. |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "The People's Court" | Bruno Sorrentino | — | July 3, 2007 |
2 | "Victory Is Your Duty" | Andrew Lang | — | July 10, 2007 |
3 | "The Sand Castle" | Eirin Gjørv | — | July 24, 2007 |
4 | "Dishing Democracy" | Bregtje van der Haak | — | July 31, 2007 |
5 | "Gaza E.R." | Olly Lambert | — | August 14, 2007 |
6 | "Gold Futures" | Tibor Kocsis | — | August 21, 2007 |
7 | "The Dying Fields" | Fred de Sam Lazaro | — | August 28, 2007 |
8 | "Brazil in Black and White" | Adam Stepan | — | September 4, 2007 |
9 | "A Woman Among Warlords" | Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem | — | September 11, 2007 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Heart of Darfur" | TBA | — | July 1, 2008 |
2 | "Japan's About-Face" | Micah Fink | — | July 8, 2008 |
3 | "Birth of a Surgeon" | Karin Falck | — | July 15, 2008 |
4 | "Burning Season" | Cathy Henkel | — | July 22, 2008 |
5 | "Lord’s Children" | Oliver Stoltz and Ali Samadi Ahadi | — | July 29, 2008 |
6 | "China Prep" | Marije Meerman | — | August 12, 2008 |
7 | "Iraqi Exodus" | Tania Rakhmanova | — | August 19, 2008 |
# | Title | Directed by | Awards | Original airdate |
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1 | "Crossing Heaven's Border" | TBA | Emmy Nomination | July 1, 2009 |
2 | "Heart of Jenin" | Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter | Overseas Press Club Award, Emmy Nomination | July 8, 2009 |
3 | "Birth of a Surgeon" | Karin Falck | — | July 15, 2009 |
4 | "The Market Maker" | Hugo Berkeley and Eli Kane | — | July 22, 2009 |
5 | "Contestant No. 2" | Timna Goldstein Hattav and Barak Heymann | — | July 29, 2009 |
6 | "Victory Is Your Duty (Update)" | Andrew Lang | — | August 12, 2009 |
7 | "Eyes of the Storm" | Evan Williams and Jeremy Williams | — | August 19, 2009 |
8 | "Once Upon a Coup" | Christopher Olgiati | — | August 26, 2009 |
9 | "Time for School 3" | Pamela Hogan | — | September 2, 2009 |
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