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GroundTruth

At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lie... Read more

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Razia's Way: One School's Fight for Afghanistan's Girls

Razia's Way: One School's Fight for Afghanistan's Girls

How do you convince the conservative men of Afghanistan to get behind girls' education? This is the story of one determi... Read more

30 Dec 2015

22mins

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The End of Days: How Christian Zionism is Transforming US Policy in the Middle East

The End of Days: How Christian Zionism is Transforming US Policy in the Middle East

Twenty years ago, a movement known as Christian Zionism was on the furthest fringes in the land of Israel. Back then, ma... Read more

17 Apr 2019

29mins

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The End of Days - Part 2 - The Armies of Heaven - Inside the Movement

The End of Days - Part 2 - The Armies of Heaven - Inside the Movement

In the second chapter of this series, we go inside the Christian Zionist community in Jerusalem and the settlements in t... Read more

26 Apr 2019

24mins

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Unheard in Appalachia

Unheard in Appalachia

In beautiful, mountainous Eastern Kentucky, local economies are struggling, coal jobs continue to disappear, and people ... Read more

20 Sep 2018

28mins

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The Authoritarian's Playbook: Weaponizing Fear in Brazil

The Authoritarian's Playbook: Weaponizing Fear in Brazil

Since taking office in January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has weaponized the fear of widespread crime, and tappe... Read more

31 Oct 2019

36mins

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War Reporting: A Love Story

War Reporting: A Love Story

Conflict reporter Tracey Shelton has been willing to risk her life to tell the stories of ordinary people in war zones. ... Read more

12 Nov 2015

21mins

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What Ever Happened to Zika?

What Ever Happened to Zika?

Before Hurricane Maria, the Zika crisis was already pushing Puerto Rico’s health care system to the limit. Then the stor... Read more

8 Nov 2018

32mins

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Dispatch: Drowned Out In Paris

Dispatch: Drowned Out In Paris

Are young people being shut out of the world's response to climate change?  GroundTruth climate fellows Justine Calma an... Read more

24 Mar 2016

13mins

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War Children

War Children

A year after the city of Mosul was liberated from ISIS rule, kids across Iraq are not alright. The most vulnerable are o... Read more

22 Nov 2018

25mins

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Democracy Undone: Series Intro

Democracy Undone: Series Intro

The hallmarks of populist nationalism are gaining ground in many of the world’s largest democracies, from Modi’s India t... Read more

17 Oct 2019

3mins

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Refugees Lost in Translation

Refugees Lost in Translation

*Refugees Lost in Translation * Three refugees — from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq — are working as interpreters for othe... Read more

27 Sep 2018

33mins

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Living Proof: Storms, Sex And Survival In The Philippines

Living Proof: Storms, Sex And Survival In The Philippines

After covering the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, GroundTruth's Aurora Almendral investigates how typhoons are d... Read more

2 Dec 2016

27mins

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Hope (and Contraband) in a Bottle

Hope (and Contraband) in a Bottle

On a South Korean island just eight miles from the shores of North Korea, Jung Gwang-il is trying to save lives with ric... Read more

11 Oct 2018

29mins

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Memorial Day Special - The Eleventh Hour

Memorial Day Special - The Eleventh Hour

In honor of Memorial Day, we’re looking back at World War 1, the Great War. It’s been a century since the world powers g... Read more

23 May 2019

39mins

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Season 5 Trailer

Season 5 Trailer

From Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania, a new generation of journalists is reporting on the ground, documenting the most impor... Read more

14 Sep 2018

3mins

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Unheard in Appalachia

Unheard in Appalachia

Crossing the Divide is a collaboration with WGBH that brought together a team of five reporters from red states and blue... Read more

15 Aug 2019

31mins

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The Dancing Ghosts of Duffy's Cut

The Dancing Ghosts of Duffy's Cut

When Bill and Frank Watson were kids, their grandfather told them a ghost story. Decades later, the brothers discovered ... Read more

25 Oct 2018

26mins

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Living Proof: Anguish In Arctic Scandinavia

Living Proof: Anguish In Arctic Scandinavia

A mental health crisis is taking root in Arctic Scandinavia among the indigenous Sami, as a changing climate threatens w... Read more

9 Dec 2016

26mins

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New American Songbook: For My Ayeeyo

New American Songbook: For My Ayeeyo

Somalia is often called a land of poets, a place where everything from teenage romance to legal disputes has been record... Read more

3 Jul 2019

28mins

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Living Proof: Jakarta's Fight Against Flooding

Living Proof: Jakarta's Fight Against Flooding

The rising seas and increased storms that come with climate change pose a threat to many coastal cities. GroundTruth's C... Read more

18 Nov 2016

17mins

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