Wide Angle (TV program)

Wide Angle
Genre	Documentary television series
Presented by	Aaron Brown
Narrated by	Jay O. Sanders
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	56+ (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Pamela Hogan
Producers	Erin Chapman Charlotte Mangin Tamara Rosenberg
Running time	55 minutes
Original release
Network	Thirteen/WNET and PBS
Release	July 11 2002 – present

Wide Angle is an international current affairs documentary series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for national broadcast on PBS and for worldwide distribution. Pamela Hogan is the Executive Producer, Nina Chaudry is the Senior Producer, and the series is currently hosted by veteran journalist Aaron Brown. Wide Angle began broadcasting on PBS in 2002 with the aim of extending Americans’ awareness and understanding of the changing world in which we live, and it is the only series on American television devoted exclusively to reporting in-depth on international issues. The program currently airs on Tuesday nights from July through September at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations.

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 seventh season in 2008, and in that time it has produced more than 60 films in over 50 countries. Previous interview guests include Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, Mexico’s former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, former Ugandan government minister Betty Bigombe, Nobel Prize Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, Women for Women International CEO Zainab Salbi, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff, writer Arundhati Roy and former U.S. Secretaries of State George Mitchell and James A. Baker III. Previous anchors for the series include Bill Moyers, former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, Mishal Husain, and Daljit Dhaliwal.

Wide Angle also produces a companion website 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 earned the Goldman Sachs Foundation Excellence in International Education Award.

Wide Angle programs have won numerous awards, including an Emmy, the Sigma Delta Chi, the Chicago International Television Hugo award, the Gabriel award, several top awards from the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), citations from the Overseas Press Club, and numerous Cine Golden Eagles.

Episodes

Main article: List of Wide Angle episodes

See also

• Frontline
• Independent Lens
• P.O.V. (PBS series)