Global Voices
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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)
Full Program: Watch this film now! 54:08
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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)