Raise the Last Glass: Filmmaker Notes
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View ArticleRaise the Last Glass: Filmmaker Notes
Lucy Kennedy I’m Irish, but I’ve lived away from the country for almost ten years. This has helped me recognize what is special about the people there. The thing that struck me most about the workers...
View ArticleTime for School Series: Introduction
“It’s the human stories of overcoming adversity that jump out at one in Time for School…. Wide Angle’s documentaries are about the real world — the world beyond reality TV and Hollywood excess.”...
View ArticleRaise the Last Glass: Introduction
In January 2009, Waterford Crystal went bankrupt. The company’s main factory, in Waterford, Ireland, was closed, and 480 people were fired. Many of them had worked there for more than forty years. But...
View ArticleTurkey’s Tigers: Introduction
Turkey sits at a cultural and geographic crossroads where the Eastern and Western worlds meet. Historically a devoutly Muslim country, Turkey — from the volatile eastern Kurdish region near the Iraqi...
View Article1-800-INDIA: Introduction
Offshore outsourcing — firms subcontracting important parts of their businesses to firms in other countries — are changing the nature of global business. In India, outsourcing has sparked an economic...
View ArticlePilgrimage to Karbala: Introduction
Photos: Adam Toy In the summer of 2006, as the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought off Israelis in Lebanon and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced down President George Bush at the United Nations, a bus...
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