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![Dead Mums Don't Cry](../photos/dmdcimage.jpg) | | Dead Mums Don't Cry ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals. | |
![Life 4](../photos/l4image.jpg) | | Life 4 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. | |
![Life 5](../photos/l5image.jpg) | | Life 5 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals. | |
![Life 6](../photos/lsimage.jpg) | | Life 6 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An 11-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face as their countries struggle to meet the UN's MDGs. | |
![The Millennium Goals](../photos/l4milimage.jpg) | | The Millennium Goals ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement. | |
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Aiming High ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.
Back In Business? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) After 11 years of civil war, can Sierra Leone expect tourism to improve the economy?
Between War and Peace ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia encourages combatants to turn in their weapons and wage peace.
Biker Boys of the Dirt Island ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Nairobi's Korogocho slum, a group of former thieves trying to go straight now provide an informal motorcycle taxi service.
Blue Danube? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Connecting more than 18 countries in Western Europe, the Danube River is at the heart of a dilemma over shared resources in the growing European Union.
Brazil's Land Revolution ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In the state of Bahia, a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land -- with low-interest government loans.
Cash Flow Fever ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) One in ten people on the planet either send or receive money from abroad.
Castro Or Quit? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Two young doctors in Venezuela have to decide whether to leave the country or stay with their patients.
The Coffee-Go-Round ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Many coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia are facing economic disaster even as the demand for coffee increases worldwide.
Collision Course ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.
Crisis Control ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Ukraine's emerging HIV epidemic is contrasted with Africa's longstanding HIV/AIDS catastrophe.
Dead Mums Don't Cry ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
The Dilemma Of The White Ant ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Dominic Ongwen is both a victim and alleged perpetrator of LRA war crimes. Should he face an international court?
The Donor Circus ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Zambia tries to change the conditions for international aid.
Edge Of Islam ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Three Muslim students face a choice between their faith and their future.
Educating Yaprak ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Turkey's ambitious campaign to reduce poverty includes convincing reluctant parents to send their daughters to school.
Extreme By Design ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In a Stanford multidisciplinary, project-based course, student design teams are building a better world...one product at a time.
For Richer, For Poorer ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Brazil the gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world.
Geraldo's Brazil ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Five years later, Life rejoins a Brazilian factory worker affected by the globalized economy.
The Great Health Service Swindle ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Reversing the brain drain in doctors and nurses from developing countries.
Hassan and The Graduates ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) As Egyptian industry is undermined by Chinese imports, Hassan, a university graduate, takes up the government's offer of free land to farm.
Helping Ourselves! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.
The Hospice ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Workers at the Mother of Mercy hospice in Zambia provide palliative care for those afflicted with AIDS.
How Green Is My Valley? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.
In The Wake of War ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A burgeoning grassroots peace movement in Burundi is aimed at ending civil war between Tutsis and Hutus.
Kill Or Cure? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) India's $4.5 billion dollar pharmaceutical industry that serves the world's poor is at a crossroads.
Killing Poverty ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Has the corruption in Kenya lessened under its new president?
Kosovo - A House Still Divided? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Resentment and property ownership issues remain as the UN Housing Property Directorate Mission ends.
Life 4 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Life 5 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Life 6 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An 11-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face as their countries struggle to meet the UN's MDGs.
Life 8 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A new 16-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face.
Listen to the Kids! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A UNICEF initiative involves children in decisions that affect their own futures, their families and communities.
Looking For My Gypsy Roots ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Hungarian film director Arpád faces a dilemma - should he track down his Roma father?
Looting the Seas ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Investigates the looming collapse of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna stocks and the role EU policies have played in the crisis.
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The Millennium Goals ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement.
Moments of Truth ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Charles Stewart, whose 1984 film alerted the world to the Ethiopian famine, returns to check whether the people he filmed then are now free from danger.
No Country For Young Girls? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A young Indian woman has to choose - stay with a husband who doesn't want female children, or make it on her own.
Nottingham Lace ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) With unemployment figures rising across Europe, is there still a place for the niche craft skills of Cluny Lace in the U.K.'s East Midlands?
The Pied Piper of Eyasi ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The Hadza are among Africa's last hunter-gatherers. Should they follow charismatic Baallow into the modern world?
The Prince ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A young Pakistani landowner chooses between trying to implement the MDGs in the village that his family owns, and a quiet life.
Reaching Out to the Grassroots ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
The Real Leap Forward ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Reports on China's successful efforts to reduce poverty through sustainable development and targeted programs.
Reclaim the Condom ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Trained advice columnist Sheila launches a campaign in Mozambique to promote condoms as sexy contraceptives - not weapons in the fight against HIV and disease.
Reel to Real: Balancing Acts ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Explores the international movement for women's rights.
Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict with cultural realities in the Philippines, Latvia, Japan, and India.
Return to Srebrenica ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica struggle to heal their community and build a new future.
Returning Dreams ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In the aftermath of Liberia's civil war children are fighting to reclaim their futures and return home.
Roma Rights ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Breaking the cycle of Roma poverty and persecution.
Running On Empty ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Highlights the plight of two young mothers - one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.
Scent of the Streets ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Nigeria has had some success in getting more women into government and business. But what about in the crowded and often violent slums of Lagos?
School's Out! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The private school option in a Lagos shantytown.
The Silent Crisis ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The Central African Republic struggles to avoid economic and social chaos.
Silk Ceiling, Part 1 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Ritu Bhardawaj is an Indian TV reporter who has broken through the silk ceiling which narrows the prospects for so many women in the Asia Pacific region.
Silk Ceiling, Part 2 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Indian TV journalist Ritu Bhardawaj goes to Bihar to investigate the invisible barrier that confronts so many Asian women.
Slum Futures ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The slums of Mumbai are an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world.
Sorie K and the MDGs ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Blind musician, Sorie Kondi, from Sierra Leone looks at what's happening with girls' education in his country 10 years after civil war.
Srebrenica - Looking For Justice ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Examines the massacre at Srebrenica on its 10th anniversary.
Staying Alive! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Poverty combined with lack of education and health services affect maternal mortality rates in Bangladesh.
This Hard Ground ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Civil war leads to the internal displacement of millions in Sri Lanka.
Three Sisters ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Eritrea's women fought in the war. Should they now liberate themselves from harmful traditional practices?
Trawler Girl ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A female trawler captain in Namibia exemplifies goals set forth for women in the Millennium Development Goals.
Trouble In Paradise ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Local inhabitants of the Maldives wait for promised tsunami aid.
The Unforgiven ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Should General Butt Naked (née Joshua Blahyi) - now a Christian pastor - be forgiven for his role in Liberia's horrific civil war?
Warming Up in Mongolia ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Unless sustainable alternatives are introduced, Mongolia's dependence on fossil fuels and rapid urbanization threatens the environment.
Water First ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
When the Cows Come Home ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Despite the success of the "Jamaica Hope" milk cow, Jamaica's dairy industry is facing a crisis, as EU trade undercuts island production.
Whose Agenda Is It Anyway? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) To fulfill the Millennium Development Goals, many poor countries are now implementing "Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs".
Yemeni Futures ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) More than a decade after its unification, Yemen is still struggling to improve the standard of living.
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