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This is a list of episodes for the PBS documentary television series Wide Angle.

Season 1: 2002

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"Saddam's Ultimate Solution"Gwynne Roberts1July 11 2002
2"To Have and Have Not"Jon Alpert1July 18 2002
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on July 31 2003.
3"Greetings from Grozny"Paul Mitchell and Tania Rakhmanova5July 25 2002
4"Land of Wandering Souls"Rithy PanhTBAAugust 1 2002
5"The Empty ATM"Angus MacQueen2August 8 2002
6"Bitter Harvest"Ashley SmithTBAAugust 22 2002
7"Growing Up Global"Bruno Sorrentino1August 29 2002
8"Cause for Murder"Pamela YatesTBASeptember 5 2002
9"Media by Milosevic"Leslie WoodheadTBASeptember 12 2002
10"Soul of India"Steven Silver1September 19 2002

Season 2: 2003

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"Exclusive to al-Jazeera"Ben Anthony1July 10 2003
2"The Rock Star and the Mullahs"Ruhi Hamid and Angus MacQueen1July 17 2003
3"AIDS Warriors"Micah Fink and Andrew Young1July 24 2003
4"Coca and the Congressman"Jon Alpert1August 7 2003
5"The Prime Minister and the Press"Susan Gray1August 21 2003
6"Road to Riches"Mandy JacobsonTBAAugust 28 2003
7"Time for School"Judy Katz2September 4 2003
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on September 2 2004
8"A State of Mind"Dan Gordon2September 11 2003
9"The Dammed"Franny ArmstrongTBASeptember 18 2003
10"Dying to Leave"Chris Hilton and Aaron Woolf6September 25 2003
This is a two-hour episode. It was later edited to one hour and rebroadcast on July 29 2004.

Season 3: 2004

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"Suicide Bombers"Tom Roberts2July 1 2004
2"The Russian Newspaper Murders"Paul Jenkins1July 8 2004
3"Ladies First"Gini Reticker4July 22 2004
4"Sahara Marathon"Aitor Arregi and Jon GarañoTBAAugust 19 2004
5"Young, Muslim, and French"Micah Fink and Kathleen Hughes1August 26 2004
6"Hell of a Nation"Tamara Gould3September 9 2004
7"An Honest Citizen"Angus MacQueen2September 16 2004
8"Red Lines and Deadlines"Taghi Amirani2September 23 2004
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on August 2 2005
9"The Saudi Question"Anthony Makin1October 7 2004

2005 special

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
TBA"White Smoke"Farrah Durrami and Emanuele PasqualeTBAApril 26 2005
A look at the process of selecting a new pope in the days following the death of Pope John Paul II.

Season 4: 2005

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"Beslan: Siege of School No. 1"Kevin Sim1July 12 2005
2"Future for Lebanon"Paul MitchellTBAJuly 19 2005
3"Border Jumpers"Peter Hutchens and Ryan Hill1July 26 2005
4"Gutted"David Peat1August 23 2005
5"Pickles, Inc."Dalit Kimor2August 30 2005
6"Unfinished Country"Whitney DowTBASeptember 6 2005
7"1-800-INDIA"Safina Uberoi4September 13 2005
8"HSN1 · Killer Flu"Steven Silver2September 20 2005

Season 5: 2006

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"18 with a Bullet"Ricardo Pollack1July 11 2006
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on August 5 2008
2"Mixed Blessings"Darragh ByrneTBAJuly 18 2006
3"Class of 2006"Gini RetickerTBAJuly 25 2006
4"Flying Down to Kabul"Simone Aaberg Kaern and Magnus BejmarTBAAugust 1 2006
5"Turkey's Tigers"Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill1August 22 2006
6"Ransom City"Benito MontorioTBAAugust 29 2006
7"Back to School"Judy Katz3September 5 2006
This is a 90-minute episode and represents the second installment of "Time for School" from season two. It was later edited to one hour and rebroadcast on July 17 2007.
8"Democracy in the Rough"Fred de Sam LazaroTBASeptember 12 2006

2007 special

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
TBA"Pilgrimage To Karbala"Kevin SimTBAMarch 26 2007
This is a 90-minute episode.

Season 6: 2007

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"The People's Court"Bruno SorrentinoTBAJuly 3 2007
2"Victory Is Your Duty"Andrew LangTBAJuly 10 2007
3"The Sand Castle"Eirin GjørvTBAJuly 24 2007
4"Dishing Democracy"Bregtje van der HaakTBAJuly 31 2007
5"Gaza E.R."Olly LambertTBAAugust 14 2007
6"Gold Futures"Tibor KocsisTBAAugust 21 2007
7"The Dying Fields"Fred de Sam LazaroTBAAugust 28 2007
8"Brazil in Black and White"Adam StepanTBASeptember 4 2007
9"A Woman Among Warlords"Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-ErhayemTBASeptember 11 2007

Season 7: 2008

# Title Producer or Director Awards Original airdate
1"Heart of Darfur"Jeremy JeffsTBAJuly 1 2008
2"Japan's About-Face"Micah FinkTBAJuly 8 2008
3"Birth of a Surgeon"Karin FalckTBAJuly 15 2008
4"Burning Season"Cathy HenkelTBAJuly 22 2008
5"Lord’s Children"Oliver Stoltz and Ali Samadi AhadiTBAJuly 29 2008
6"China Prep"Marije MeermanTBAAugust 12 2008
7"Iraqi Exodus"Tania RakhmanovaTBAAugust 19 2008

References

"About the Series: Awards". PBS. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
"About the Series: Credits". PBS. Retrieved 2008-09-16.