List of Wide Angle episodes

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

Season 1: 2002

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Saddam's Ultimate Solution"	Gwynne Roberts	1	July 11, 2002
2	"To Have and Have Not"	Jon Alpert	1	July 18, 2002
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on July 31, 2003.
3	"Greetings from Grozny"	Paul Mitchell and Tania Rakhmanova	5	July 25, 2002
4	"Land of Wandering Souls"	Rithy Panh		August 1, 2002
5	"The Empty ATM"	Angus MacQueen	2	August 8, 2002
6	"Bitter Harvest"			August 22, 2002
7	"Growing Up Global"	Bruno Sorrentino	1	August 29, 2002
8	"Cause for Murder"	Pamela Yates		September 5, 2002
9	"Media by Milosevic"	Leslie Woodhead		September 12, 2002
10	"Soul of India"	Steven Silver	1	September 19, 2002

Season 2: 2003

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Exclusive to al-Jazeera"		1	July 10, 2003
2	"The Rock Star and the Mullahs"	Ruhi Hamid and Angus MacQueen	1	July 17, 2003
3	"AIDS Warriors"		1	July 24, 2003
4	"Coca and the Congressman"	Jon Alpert	1	August 7, 2003
5	"Citizen Berlusconi – The Prime Minister and the Press"	Susan Gray	1	August 21, 2003
6	"Road to Riches"	Mandy Jacobson		August 28, 2003
7	"Time for School"		2	September 4, 2003
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on September 2, 2004
8	"A State of Mind"	Dan Gordon	2	September 11, 2003
9	"The Dammed"	Franny Armstrong		September 18, 2003
10	"Dying to Leave"	Chris Hilton and Aaron Woolf	6	September 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	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Suicide Bombers"	Tom Roberts	2	July 1, 2004
2	"The Russian Newspaper Murders"	Paul Jenkins	1	July 8, 2004
3	"Ladies First"	Gini Reticker	4	July 22, 2004
4	"Sahara Marathon"	Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño		August 19, 2004
5	"Young, Muslim, and French"		1	August 26, 2004
6	"Hell of a Nation"	Tamara Gould	3	September 9, 2004
7	"An Honest Citizen"	Angus MacQueen	2	September 16, 2004
8	"Red Lines and Deadlines"	Taghi Amirani	2	September 23, 2004
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on August 2, 2005
9	"The Saudi Question"		1	October 7, 2004

2005 special

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
	"White Smoke"			April 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	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Beslan: Siege of School No. 1"	Kevin Sim	1	July 12, 2005
2	"Future for Lebanon"	Paul Mitchell		July 19, 2005
3	"Border Jumpers"	Peter Hutchens and Ryan Hill	1	July 26, 2005
4	"Gutted"	David Peat	1	August 23, 2005
5	"Pickles, Inc."	Dalit Kimor	2	August 30, 2005
6	"Unfinished Country"	Whitney Dow		September 6, 2005
7	"1-800-INDIA"	Safina Uberoi	4	September 13, 2005
8	"HSN1 · Killer Flu"	Steven Silver	2	September 20, 2005

Season 5: 2006

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"18 with a Bullet"	Ricardo Pollack	1	July 11, 2006
This episode was updated and rebroadcast on August 5, 2008
2	"Mixed Blessings"	Darragh Byrne		July 18, 2006
3	"Class of 2006"	Gini Reticker		July 25, 2006
4	"Flying Down to Kabul"	Simone Aaberg Kaern and Magnus Bejmar		August 1, 2006
5	"Turkey's Tigers"	Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill	1	August 22, 2006
6	"Ransom City"	Benito Montorio		August 29, 2006
7	"Back to School"		3	September 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"			September 12, 2006

2007 special

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
	"Pilgrimage To Karbala"	Kevin Sim		March 26, 2007
This is a 90-minute episode.

Season 6: 2007

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"The People's Court"	Bruno Sorrentino		July 3, 2007
2	"Victory Is Your Duty"	Andrew Lang		July 10, 2007
3	"The Sand Castle"	Eirin Gjørv		July 24, 2007
4	"Dishing Democracy"	Bregtje van der Haak		July 31, 2007
5	"Gaza E.R."	Olly Lambert		August 14, 2007
6	"Gold Futures"	Tibor Kocsis		August 21, 2007
7	"The Dying Fields"	Fred de Sam Lazaro		August 28, 2007
8	"Brazil in Black and White"	Adam Stepan		September 4, 2007
9	"A Woman Among Warlords"	Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem		September 11, 2007

Season 7: 2008

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Heart of Darfur"			July 1, 2008
2	"Japan's About-Face"	Micah Fink		July 8, 2008
3	"Birth of a Surgeon"	Karin Falck		July 15, 2008
4	"Burning Season"	Cathy Henkel		July 22, 2008
5	"Lord’s Children"	Oliver Stoltz and Ali Samadi Ahadi		July 29, 2008
6	"China Prep"	Marije Meerman		August 12, 2008
7	"Iraqi Exodus"	Tania Rakhmanova		August 19, 2008

Season 8: 2009

#	Title	Directed by	Awards	Original airdate
1	"Crossing Heaven's Border"		Emmy Nomination	July 1, 2009
2	"Heart of Jenin"	Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter	Overseas Press Club Award, Emmy Nomination	July 8, 2009
3	"Birth of a Surgeon"	Karin Falck		July 15, 2009
4	"The Market Maker"	Hugo Berkeley and Eli Kane		July 22, 2009
5	"Contestant No. 2"	Timna Goldstein Hattav and Barak Heymann		July 29, 2009
6	"Victory Is Your Duty (Update)"	Andrew Lang		August 12, 2009
7	"Eyes of the Storm"	Evan Williams and Jeremy Williams		August 19, 2009
8	"Once Upon a Coup"	Christopher Olgiati		August 26, 2009
9	"Time for School 3"	Pamela Hogan		September 2, 2009

References

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