Global Voices
Carmen Meets Borat (#318)
In "Carmen Meets Borat," director Mercedes Stalenhoef follows the life of 17-year-old Carmen. She lives in a gypsy village in Romania, where the men spend their days tying one on and exchanging coarse words in her father's bar. In the evenings, she watches a Spanish soap opera and dreams of a better life in Spain, where the men are romantic and decent. Her plan to emigrate falls to pieces when an American film crew descends on her village to shoot "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." The village is used in the movie to show where the main character comes from and Borat depicts the villagers as primitive caricatures supposedly from Kazakhstan. [56 minutes]
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Why Poverty? | Education, Education | PBS (#527)
Full Program: Watch this film now! 54:03
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Why Poverty? | Welcome to the World | PBS (#528)
Full Program: Watch this film now! 53:33
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Why Poverty? | Poor Us: An Animated History of... (#525)
Full Program: Watch this film now! 53:31
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Why Poverty? | Land Rush | PBS (#526)
Full Program: Watch this film now! 54:08
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Why Poverty? | Give Us the Money | PBS (#523)
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Series Description: A new international independent documentary series from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), GLOBAL VOICES samples the best of international documentary. In its premiere season, the series features five all-new global docs and 21 notable international documentaries that have previously aired on PBS in other forums.
All Upcoming Episodes
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Waiting for the Revolution (#512)
For more than 500 years, the indigenous people of the Andes have had to endure racism and discrimination. Now, with democracy on their side, the time has come for a change. [56 minutes]
- Mon, January 21, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, January 22, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, January 22, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
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74 Square Meters (#513)
Iselsa, Kathy, tribal leader Ivan, and 150 other marginalized families from Valparaiso, Chile, are chosen to participate in a social experiment that moves them into a middle-class neighborhood. But... [56 minutes]
- Sun, January 27, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, January 27, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, January 27, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, January 28, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, January 29, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, January 29, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
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I Was Worth 50 Sheep (#514)
Following a long practiced tradition in Afghanistan, 10-year-old Sabere was sold to a man in his fifties. For the next six years she was both slave and wife, miscarrying four times. Now at... [56 minutes]
- Sun, February 3, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 3, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 3, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, February 4, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, February 5, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, February 5, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
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Milking The Rhino (#515)
Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here's a different story about villagers navigating the dangers and costs of living with wildlife. After a... [56 minutes]
- Sun, February 10, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 10, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 10, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, February 11, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, February 12, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, February 12, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
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The English Surgeon (#516)
In the early 1990s, British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh traveled to Kiev, Ukraine and was horrified by its medieval brain surgical procedures. Since then, Marsh has attempted to improve the system by... [86 minutes]
- Sun, February 17, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 17, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 17, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, February 18, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
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Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos (#517)
A personal look at the brutal events of Argentina's military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. [86 minutes]
- Sun, February 24, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 24, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sun, February 24, 9:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, February 25, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
Past Episodes
These episodes of Global Voices aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Waiting for the Revolution (#512)
- A Son's Sacrifice (#422)
- Acrobat (#509)
- The Collaborator and His Family (#511)
- Carmen Meets Borat (#318)
- Arusi Persian Wedding (#510)
- Circus School (#101)
- Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors (#508)
- Putin's Kiss (#507)
- Town of Runners (#506)
- Last Days of the Arctic (#505)
- Give Us The Money (#523)
- Welcome to the World (#528)
- Education Education (#527)
- Caviar Connection (#305)
- Land Rush (#526)
- Poor Us: The Animated History of Poverty (#525)
- Tales of the Waria (#504)
- Stealing Africa (#524)
- Bridge Over The Wadi (#106)
- Lakshmi and Me (#503)
- Comrade Duch (#502)
- Peace vs. Justice (#501)
- Thunder in Guyana/50/Fifty/Fernando's First Snow (#314)
- Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos (#517)
- Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey (#522)
- Sumo East and West (#104)
- Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story (#521)
- Family Portrait In Black and White (#520)
- The Boy Mir (#519)
- Chahinaz: What Rights for Women? (#518)
- Team Qatar (#313)
- Companeras (#425)
- The English Surgeon (#516)
- Milking The Rhino (#515)
- I Was Worth 50 Sheep (#514)