This "Wide Angle" documentary, with Bill Moyers as anchor, includes firsthand reports and video shot inside the school.
"EYES OF THE STORM," a "Wide Angle" documentary (10 p.m. Wednesday on most PBS stations), observes Burmese children who were orphaned or cut off from their parents in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which killed more than 100,000 people in the Irrawaddy delta in May 2008.
This episode of "Wide Angle," the global documentary series, is shot with grace, poignancy and humor, and never sacrifices elegance for sanctimony.
First DALJIT DHALIWAL, below, and JAMES P. RUBIN, a former assistant secretary of state who was the State Department's chief spokesman from 1997 to 2000, explained the public-television documentary series "Wide Angle".
Before Qatar, Ahmed worked in New York as an interactive producer at PBS's award-winning documentary series Wide Angle, a producer for The New York Times and as a videographer for PBS's FRONTLINE/World as well as the Rockefeller Foundation.
This "Wide Angle" is adapted from a 2005 documentary, "Lost Children," by Ali Samadi Ahadi and Oliver Stoltz, made while the war was still going on.
"Mixed Blessings," which appears tonight on PBS, is a presentation of "Wide Angle, which often puts its name on more polemical documentaries; the argument of this one is something like "times change".
Besides that movie and the series for Wide Angle, Fork Films also produced Family Affair, a first-person documentary about a family wracked with abuse, which was bought by Oprah Winfrey's OWN [Oprah Winfrey Network].
Like a lot of documentaries, "Gaza E.R.," tonight on PBS's "Wide Angle" series, makes a grim subject a little more palatable by occasionally tossing in some humanism via a likable character who provides perspective and comic relief.
This article is based on reporting carried out in part for a documentary being produced by The New York Times for the new PBS program "Wide Angle," scheduled for broadcast this summer.
But this documentary, which is being broadcast tonight on PBS stations as part of the "Wide Angle" series of international news reports, sees portents of greater repression.
