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- Turkey: A Family Erased
After a lifetime of wondering where we came from, my father, Jim, and his sisters, Elaine, Marion and Georgiana, decided to make a journey back to historic Armenia, a few hundred miles from the Iraqi border in eastern Turkey, to piece together some of our past. - Afghanistan: A Cry for Help
Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair has been documenting the plight of women in Afghanistan since 2003. Social and domestic abuse and the tradition among Afghan men to take child brides has caused increasing numbers of women to take their own lives. Most resort to self-immolation and those who survive suffer horrific injuries. These are some of their stories. - Rwanda: Millennium Village
Janet Tobias reports from Rwanda on the Millennium Villages Project, an ambitious poverty reduction plan for Africa launched in 2004 by The Earth Institute at Columbia University. - Sri Lanka: A Terrorist in the Family
Filmmaker Beate Arnestad moved to Sri Lanka in 2002 and saw that an entire generation was growing up surrounded by violence. Her resulting film "My Daughter the Terrorist," recut and excerpted here, goes inside the special Tamil Tigers' suicide division and is believed to be the first time any suicide bomber has spoken on film about their training and motivations. - Burma: Inside the Saffron Revolution
On the one-year anniversary of Burma's September uprising, when hundreds of thousands of monks protested for change, the country's military junta continues to wage war against its own people and the crisis there has slipped back into obscurity. Our correspondent inside Burma reports on what comes next for the pro-democracy movement there. - China: Kung Fu English
Xinjiang province in remote western China is best known for the Taklamakan desert and the struggle for autonomy among the region's Muslim Uighur people. It's also considered a provincial backwater looked down upon by the Western influenced provinces in the east. Xinjiang native Jake Yong set out to change that perception by teaching himself -- and others -- to speak English. - The Arrest of Radovan Karadzic
Hasan Nuhanovic lost his father and brother at Srebrenica. FRONTLINE/World spoke to him from Sarajevo about the capture this week of the man who ordered the massacre. - Burma: After the Storm
Capturing recent, dramatic footage inside Burma, our correspondent shares his video diary and talks about the mood among dissidents there. - Zimbabwbe: On the Brink
As Zimbabwe teeters on the edge of despair, our correspondent in Harare describes how opposition supporters and journalists are trying to escape Mugabe's wrath. - India: Design Like You Give a Damn
FRONTLINE/World reporter Singeli Agnew travels to Tamil Nadu, India, to see the work of Architects for Humanity, a nonprofit that links local communities in need with a network of architects excited to help. - Asia and Africa: Living on the Edge
For the last year and a half, reporter Martin Smith has been investigating global climate change for Heat, a two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast to air this fall. In "Living on the Edge," Smith travels to the foothills of the Himalayas, to parched areas of Eastern Africa and to the Namibian coast to share some devastating field notes from this looming environmental catastrophe. - Jesus in China
In this joint project of FRONTLINE/World and the Chicago Tribune, reporter Evan Osnos investigates how Christianity is sweeping China and could potentially transform the country at an explosive moment in its development. - China: Out of the Rubble
Washington Post video journalist Travis Fox talks about covering China's earthquake and the difficulties of filming under the government's watchful eye. - South Africa: Go Away and Fight Mugabe!
When riots erupted in a South African township directed mainly at Zimbabwean refugees, a young American filmmaker captured the tensions and violence. - Mozambique: Guitar Hero
Most rock stars don't sing about hygiene and sanitation. Then again, not many live and work in Niassa, a remote province in one of the poorest countries in the world. FRONTLINE/World reporter Marjorie McAfee travels to Mozambique to meet Feliciano dos Santos, Afro-pop bandleader by night, nonprofit health and environmental activist by day. - Guatemala: The Secret Files
FRONTLINE/World and PRI's "The World" radio correspondent Clark Boyd travels to Guatemala to see how an unlikely partnership between human rights investigators and a Silicon Valley nonprofit called Benetech is saving a lost chapter of the country's history. - Mexico: Crimes at the Border
In a joint project with The New York Times, FRONTLINE/World correspondents Andrew Becker and Lowell Bergman investigate the rapidly expanding business of smuggling humans across the U.S.-Mexican border. They follow the dramatic story of an American border guard tempted by money and sexual favors to join a smuggling operation, and explore what the U.S. government is doing about the problem. - India: The Cost of Yellowcake
The Indian government has been mining low-grade uranium on tribal lands for decades, but it plans to expand production so that nuclear power will eventually meet a quarter of India's energy needs. The risks of pursuing that policy made international headlines in 2006 when a uranium waste pipeline burst in the east of the country, creating a devastating spill. FRONTLINE/World Fellow Sonia Narang reports on how the mines are affecting the health and traditions of villagers, and forcing thousands off their lands. - Tortillanomics: Food or Fuel?
Mexico is among many countries worldwide dealing with unrest caused by rising food prices. FRONTLINE/World reporter Malia Wollan discovers that increasing demand for corn-based biofuel in the United States is driving up the cost of Mexico's staple food, the tortilla. - Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
Jason Margolis, who first reported this story for PRI's radio program The World, travels with producer Loren Mendell to the heart of rural Mexico to discover how a former schoolteacher is using the commodity of carbon to revitalize and entire region. - Chile: The New Nazis
Chile once harbored Nazi fugitives and has a history of racial discrimination, but its predominantly mixed-race population makes in an unexpected home for a new-Nazi movement. Lygia Navarro examines why some brown-skinned working class kids have bought into Hitler's ideology. - Pakistan: State of Emergency
In a joint project between FRONTLINE/World and the Christian Science Monitor, David Montero investigates a mysterious Taliban cleric who has been waging war against the Pakistani government in the mountainous former tourist haven of Swat Valley. Montero also reports from the capital, where President Pervez Musharraf is battling moderates who demand that he restore democracy and step down. - Russia: Putin's Plan