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The Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine stands at the foot of Mount Horeb where, the Old Testament records, Moses received the Tablets of the Law. The mountain is known and revered by Muslims as Jebel Musa. The entire area is sacred to three world religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The Monastery, founded in the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery still in use for its initial function. Its walls and buildings are of great significance...
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Social media is changing how the world works. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Africa's most populous city, Lagos. In this bustling metropolis of an estimated 23 million people, around 10 million are under the age of 25 and their numbers are rising rapidly. Tech savvy and increasingly well connected, they have embraced social media and, in the process, a new generation of high profile and highly paid personalities have emerged. In this episode...
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Two years after CNN exposed "Chocolate's Child Slaves," correspondent Richard Quest takes The CNN Freedom Project back to the cocoa plantations of the Ivory Coast. It is a journey that will take him in search of progress in the fight against child labor, which ultimately has its roots embedded in poverty. Following the supply chain, from bean to bar, Quest will examine the collective efforts to reform the cocoa industry—the fundamental socioeconomic...
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[2017]
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English
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Djibouti, a tiny country in Northeast Africa, is situated at the gateway to the Suez Canal, one of the world's busiest shipping routes. While its location is an economic commodity for a country that’s half unemployed, it also puts it at the center of a multinational fight against pirates in Somalia and terrorist groups. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Martin Seemungal reports on foreign nations’ interests in Djibouti.
8) The Square
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[2013]
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Arabic
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The people demand the downfall of the regime! The Square is one of the most awarded documentaries of the past decade, nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for "Best Documentary Feature" and winning 3 Emmy Awards, as well as multiple film festival awards including the Audience Awards at the 2013 Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. The film is an in-depth firsthand look at the Egyptian Revolution, chronicling the fall of two presidents in a row.
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[2013]
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English
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The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is referred to as "the longest kiss in history." As the Arab Spring was in full bloom, Sudan, straddling the Middle East and Africa, was about to split in two. The film follows six young Sudanese searching for a place to call home as their journeys take us up and down the Nile, between North and South Sudan, ahead of the South’s secession. Facing conflicting identities, youth...
10) Silent Monologue
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[2008]
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Français
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We hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a housemaid for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her, and talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for rich families to support theri families instead of going to school.
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[2016]
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English
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Gaddafi's demise did not result in the hoped-for democratic revolution. Four years on, instead of forming a democratic and functioning state, the revolutionaries are fighting each other. Libya’s recently elected House of Representatives has fled to the eastern city of Tobruk as an alternative government has established itself in Tripoli. Thousands of people detained in 2011 are still in prison and without a fully functioning justice system look...
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[2015]
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English
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In the territory of Western Sahara, the end of European rule gave way to occupation by Morocco. The world continues to look the other way as the Sahrawi people face arrests, torture, and disappearances for demanding their independence four decades later. Life Is Waiting, by director Iara Lee, chronicles this struggle. What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does...
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[2017]
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Gold was in high demand in North Africa, and its source was the gold mines in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting long routes being forged across the desert. Alice Morrison hitches a ride in a crowded taxi of locals, Alice passes through the Islamic city of Fes, where she stays in a caravanserai; catches the Marrakech Express to the market town of Marrakech, where she learns to treat leather; treks in snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains dotted...
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[2007]
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English
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Paula digs deep into Egyptian culture at the world's oldest market. Then, she gets behind the wheel and learns the ancient art of pottery. She also figures out how the Egyptians turned papyrus into paper, and finds a friend to show her the art of hieroglyphics.
16) World of Wonders
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Cari's aboard the Galapagos Explorer en route to Santa Cruz Island. It's home to the Charles Darwin Research Station, where giant sea tortoises are being bred in captivity. There are giant tortoises in the wild too, and Cari wants to see them too. At the end of a long day, she snorkels among Galapagos' friendly creatures.
17) Building Bridges
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Countries from Vietnam to Kenya hope to pave the way for successful industrialization by building bridges with Japan.
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[2012], c2010
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English
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The national unrest in Liberia has been called "a civil war on steroids." With child soldiers smoking heroin and rebels boasting of cannibalism, the country may be teetering on the brink of anarchy. In this program, reporters from Vice magazine travel to Liberia to meet with former warlords in Monrovia's red light district. An ex-guerilla-turned-Christian-minister introduces the journalists to young people who grew up amidst violence and systematic...
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[2016]
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English
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For forty years now the Sahrawi people have lived in exile. Their home: five refugee camps in one of the hottest parts of the desert where summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees centigrade. Having fled the Moroccan invasion of their homeland, Western Sahara, over 100,000 people now live in what is in effect an open prison where they are completely dependent on the World Food Programme for their survival. Yet they continue to dream of the prospect...
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[2014]
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English
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Shocking, sometimes funny and completely compelling, Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi takes viewers inside a horrifying and unbelievable secret world. This is the story of raw, absolute and unrestrained power exercised by a brilliant madman who terrorized and compromised Libyans and Western countries alike: a dictator whose oil billions gave him the means to do anything a human being can possibly imagine. Recreating life inside...
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