Documentary: Is the American dream dead? (Video)

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 A Johns Hopkins University study shows that for big segments of the population the American dream is dead. Johns Hopkins University researchers followed nearly 800 Baltimore schoolchildren for decades. What they discovered isn’t pretty: These children’s fates “were substantially determined by the family they were born into.” Correspondent Adam May joins some of those children on a “tour” – from prison, to schools, to the blighted neighborhoods they called home – to understand what the chances really are of escaping urban poverty in America. Read the full story.

Documentary: Syria – so near, so far (Video)

Five Syrian refugees in Turkey reveal their hopes, fears and why their homeland feels like a world away.

 Syria’s civil war has been raging for three years, leaving hundreds of thousands displaced, injured or dead. Two-hundred-and-forty thousand Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey in the past three years. Fifteen thousand of them have come to a camp at Öncüpinar in Kilis province, right next to the Syrian border.

Syria: So near, so far follows the daily lives of five Syrians in Öncüpinar, struggling to come to terms with life in exile, in an alien environment, cheek-by-jowl with thousands of others. It is about their concern for their own and their families’ futures – and what Syria means to them as their country continues to be torn apart.

Filmmaker: Ahmet Yurtkul

Documentary: Brazil – World Cup Nation (Video)

 Brazil’s revival, despite the World Cup protests, from 1990s debt and inflation to stability and relative wealth today.
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Documentary: Propagenda (Video)

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