Wide Angle (TV series)
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| Genre | Documentary television series |
| Created by | Stephen Segaller |
| Presented by | Aaron Brown |
| Narrated by | Jay O. Sanders |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 63 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Tom Casciato, Pamela Hogan (Specials) |
| Producer(s) | Thirteen/WNET |
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| Original network | Thirteen/WNET and PBS |
| Original release | July 11, 2002 – September 2, 2009 |
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Wide Angle is an American documentary television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for broadcast on PBS and for worldwide distribution. The weekly one-hour series covered international current affairs and was last hosted by veteran journalist Aaron Brown. Wide Angle began broadcasting on PBS in 2002, and aimed to expand the awareness and understanding of Americans about the changing world in which they live. It was the only documentary series on American television devoted exclusively to reporting in-depth on international issues. Following its final season it was nominated for a 2010 International Documentary Association Continuing Series award.
Wide Angle programs consist of long-form, character-driven documentaries exploring pressing international issues through human stories, often followed by an interview with a foreign policy expert to connect the films’ themes to American concerns. The series completed its eighth season in 2009, and in that time it had produced more than 60 films in over 50 countries.
Wide Angle also produced a companion website, still extant, and additional educational materials for each film. The series website includes background information on the issues from the films, interactive features, exclusive video and audio, and full streaming versions of many programs. Additional educational materials are distributed to high schools and colleges. In 2006, Wide Angle's online Window into Global History project earned the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education.
Previous anchors for the series include Bill Moyers, former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, Mishal Husain, and Daljit Dhaliwal. Previous interview guests include Senator Hillary Clinton, UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, Mexico’s former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, former Ugandan government minister Betty Oyella Bigombe, Nobel Prize Laureates Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, Women for Women International CEO Zainab Salbi, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, writer Arundhati Roy and former U.S. Secretaries of State George Mitchell and James A. Baker III.
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