Dishonorable killings: punishing the innocent
The horrific practice of honor killing still prevails in many Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries - and, as this film demonstrates, it is wielded not only against rape victims but also to punish women for simple romantic attachments. Going de...
Tarteso, el reino legendario de Argantonio
The history of Tartessos, the first great mining economy of Iberia, is also a story of prosperity - and ruin. This program makes extensive use of dramatizations, images of artifacts, footage of ruins, maps, and 3-D re-creations of ships and building...
Management in Chinese cultures
As Western companies become more interested in networking and partnering, doing business the Chinese way may become the next big thing in corporate methodologies. This program describes key elements of modern Chinese entrepreneurship, such as teamwo...
The thousand and one nights: a historical perspective
Encompassing fairy tales, romances, legends, fables, parables, and anecdotes, "The Thousand and One Nights" is a composite of popular oral stories that developed over several centuries, mainly during the Empire of the Caliphate. This program scrutin...
Africa: war is business
The world is slowly awakening to a disturbing reality - that the diamond trade is a major source of financing for warfare and brutality in Africa. But diamonds are only one natural resource among many that feed bloody conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Le...
The Andalusian epic: Islamic Spain
This program addresses the expansion of the Arab empire into Spain, where Muslims ruled with tolerance for more than seven centuries. The introduction and consolidation of Islamic power in Spain, the creation of the Umayyad emirate by the sole survi...
America's immigration debate
Diversity from immigration keeps cities alive, former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and other leaders assert in this program; opposing views are also presented, thus summarizing America's immigration debate with mixed evaluations of its capacity for c...
The poisoned dream: the love canal nightmare
In 1980, three frustrated mothers made American history by taking federal officials hostage in the community built on the site of New York's toxic Love Canal. In this riveting expose, the three activists - Lois Gibbs, Barbara Quimby, and Patti Grenz...
Russia
It is no irony that Victor Zorkaltsev, a Communist, is also the head of the religious committee of the Russian parliament, the Duma. It is also not an accident that the Russian government paid for an extraordinary replica of the Cathedral of Christ ...
Brazil
This controversial program highlights the political initiatives taken by Brazil's top two religious entities: Catholics and evangelical Protestants. It argues that the Roman Catholic Church has always been fused with the nation's identity, from stat...