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FRONTLINE/World

Each episode of FRONTLINE/World features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists. These first-person stories will take viewers on adventurous journeys to foreign lands from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Taking advantage of easily portable digital cameras, our correspondents roam widely, observe closely, and when necessary, film surreptitiously.

30,000 Feet: Frequent Flyer

12m 39s

Filmmaker Gabriel Leigh takes us into the complicated world of the frequent-flyer-mileage obsessed.

Episodes

  • Nepal: A Girl's Life: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nepal: A Girl's Life

    14m 49s

    While trekking in Nepal in 1998, American John Wood saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and that schools in the poorest rural areas had a chronic shortage of books. It was a transformational experience for Wood that spurred him to start a literacy program called Room to Read.

  • India: A Pound of Flesh: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    India: A Pound of Flesh

    14m 21s

    Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit kidney trade. Traveling between India's high-tech center of Bangalore and the slums to the south, Grant spoke to government officials, doctors, kidney brokers and donors to try to find out why so many people are still getting paid to give up their kidneys even though a law was passed 12 years ago to regulate the practice.

  • Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling

    16m 19s

    Who hasn't dreamed of one day living on a far-off island in the South Pacific? But there is trouble in paradise, especially if you live on an island nation as narrow and flat as Tuvalu, where the average elevation is a mere six feet above sea level. When you live that close to the water's edge you pay very close attention to the ocean, especially if it begins to rise.

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    Return to Kirkuk

    16m 26s

    Karzan Sherabayani is a Kurdish exile living in Britain. Twenty-five years ago, Sherabayani escaped from Iraq, where he had been imprisoned and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police. In January 2005, he returned to Kirkuk, to vote in the first national elections since the overthrow of Saddam's regime. Swiss producer Claudio von Planta went with him to film the story for the BBC.

Extras + Features

  • The Stanleys' Struggle for Survival: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Stanleys' Struggle for Survival

    Two decades after Bill Moyers and FRONTLINE first began chronicling their story, have the Stanleys found an economic foothold? Find out in this sneak preview from “Two American Families,” airing July 9.

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