Al Jazeera America Presents - Season 2 / Year 2014
Season 2 / Year 2014
Episodes
The Dark Matter of Love
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE fuses the story of the Diaz family learning to love with extremely rare archive footage of science experiments that explore parent child love.
Caucus
I Learn America
Money for Nothing: Inside the Fed
Killing the Messenger
A riveting documentary showing what censorship looks like close up, revealing the true human cost of news and what it takes to stay alive to get the story. Journalists reporting in Mexico, Russia and the Middle East relate stories of kidnapping, intimidation and beatings. These stories are heartfelt, captivating, shocking – and unforgettable.
Toughest Place to Be: A Taxi Driver
London cabbie Mason McQueen heads to Mumbai to test his skills on some of the busiest and most chaotic streets in the world. He's swapping his high tech air conditioned black cab for the boiling heat of a Mumbai taxi.
Toughest Place to Be: An ER Nurse
Maria Connolly swaps her hospital in Preston, Lancashire for the Hospital General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She encounters a community terrorized by a drugs war as cartels battle to control the lucrative border into the United States, and discovers that her new colleagues witness violent crime every day in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Toughest Place to Be: A Miner
Craig Notman from Staffordshire has been a miner all his life and currently works in mine rescue. Now he's heading off to Mongolia to join the gold rush! As Mongolia becomes one of the fastest growing economies in the world thanks to its abundance of minerals, a large percentage of its population live in poverty.
Toughest Place to Be: A Farmer
Dairy farmer Richard Gibson is swapping the damp surroundings of Devon, England to live and work with Samburu tribesmen, who herd their cattle in the parched and desolate mountains of northern Kenya.
Toughest Place to Be: A Ferryman
Londoner Colin Window, a Bridge Officer on the Woolwich ferry, travels to Dhaka, Bangladesh to work as a ferryman on a Sampan – a small wooden boat – crossing one of the most congested rivers in the world.
Toughest Place to Be: A Firefighter
Fire fighter Neil Fairhall is leaving his fire station in Hayward's Heath and heading to the Amazon to fight some of the biggest forest fires in the world.
Holy Money
Priests charged with corruption, dioceses in bankruptcy, money-laundering and at the core of it all, the dirty dealings of the Vatican bank. Despite the appearances, Pope Francis faces an uphill struggle. HOLY MONEY takes us into the heart of the Catholic Church's finances and examines why, according to the bible, "You cannot serve both God and Money."
Borderland: Part 1
Borderland: Part 2
Borderland: Part 3
Borderland: Part 4
Borderland: Part 5
The System: Part 1
The System: Part 2
The System: Part 3
The System: Part 4
The System: Part 5
The System: Part 6
The System: Part 7
The System: Part 8
Edge of Eighteen: Part 1
Edge of Eighteen: Part 2
Midterms: Part 1
Midterms: Part 2
Midterms: Part 3
The Life & Crimes of Doris Payne
A glamorous 81-year-old, Doris Payne is as unapologetic today about the $2 million in jewels she's stole over the 60-year career as she was the day she stole her first carat. With Doris now on trial for the theft of a department store diamond ring, we probe beneath her consummate smile to uncover the secrets of her trade and what drove her to a life of crime.
In God We Trust: Part 1
Eleanor Squillari went to work every day believing she was working for a great company, a great man. For 25 years she sat fifteen feet away from Bernard L. Madoff as his personal secretary. She never imagined he was perpetrating the largest financial crime in history. On December 11, 2008, her life as she knew it was destroyed...until she decided to do something about it.
In God We Trust: Part 2
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