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FRONTLINE / WORLD; Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies; Mexico: A Death In The Desert; China: The Women s Kingdom

Part of Stories of East and South East Asia.

06/27/2006


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Series
FRONTLINE / WORLD
Program
Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies; Mexico: A Death In The Desert; China: The Women s Kingdom
Program Number

504

Series Description

Originally developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/World launched in 2002 as a national public TV series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television. FRONTLINE/World completed its final broadcast season in June 2010.

Program Description

ZIMBABWE: SHADOWS AND LIES FRONTLINE/World goes undercover in Zimbabwe to reveal what has happened to a country once regarded as a beacon of democracy and prosperity in Africa. Posing as tourists, reporter Alexis Bloom and producer Cassandra Herrman find a population struggling with hunger and poverty, and living in fear of a government that has become a brutal dictatorship.

MEXICO: A DEATH IN THE DESERT Follow FRONTLINE/World reporter Claudine LoMonaco as she retraces the tragic journey of Matias Garcia, a chili pepper farmer from a small Zapotec Indian village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, who crossed the border looking for work and died in the Arizona desert. LoMonaco and producer/reporter Mary Spicuzza find Garcia's family and interview his surviving brother and others. Their responses to LoMonaco reveal the dangers faced by desperate migrants.

CHINA: THE WOMEN'S KINGDOM After we launched "The Women's Kingdom" as a Web only Rough Cut video (and Fellows project) back in July 2005, many of you wrote to say how much you enjoyed this story from a remote region of southwest China, where the remarkable women of the ancient Mosuo live. It sparked lively debate about love, marriage and ancient traditions that are different from our own.

Duration

00:56:46

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Politics and Government
Social Issues - Inequality
Social Issues - Violence
Legal System - Immigration Law
Agriculture and Farming
Women and Women's History
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Social Issues
Global Affairs
Creators
Bloom, Alexis (Reporter)
Herrman, Cassandra (Producer)
LoMonaco, Claudine (Reporter)
Spicuzza, Mary (Reporter)
Publication Information
WGBH Educational Foundation
Citation
Chicago: “FRONTLINE / WORLD; Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies; Mexico: A Death In The Desert; China: The Women s Kingdom,” 06/27/2006, GBH Archives, accessed November 23, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C6A1177F59A4EDC8CD11B6200C1187E.
MLA: “FRONTLINE / WORLD; Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies; Mexico: A Death In The Desert; China: The Women s Kingdom.” 06/27/2006. GBH Archives. Web. November 23, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C6A1177F59A4EDC8CD11B6200C1187E>.
APA: FRONTLINE / WORLD; Zimbabwe: Shadows and Lies; Mexico: A Death In The Desert; China: The Women s Kingdom. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C6A1177F59A4EDC8CD11B6200C1187E
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