Unreported World – Turkey

Unreported World travels to eastern Turkey, where Europe and Asia meet, to report on the rekindling of a largely forgotten and ignored war that threatens the stability of the region and the European Union’s expansion plans.

Reporter Matthew McAllester journeys from Diyarbakir, the centre of the Kurdish heartland, deep into Kurdish Turkey and on to the border with Iran, home to thousands of Kurdish PKK fighters, before meeting one of the group’s leaders in Iraq.

Unreported World – Zimbabwe

More from the BBC’s Unreported World series, this time focusing on Mugabe. Of course, I’d be wary watching a show produced in England about Zimbabwe, but the on-the-ground interviews are solid. From the description:

Reporter Evan Williams and Director Siobhan Sinnerton reveal startling claims that the Mugabe Government is using the supply of AIDS drugs and food aid to gerrymander upcoming elections

Parts two and three when you click the video.

The Marshall Plan

From the description :

The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program [ERP]) was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the allied countries of Europe, and repelling communism after World War II. The initiative was named for United States Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.

More at Google Video.

Unreported World – Somalia

A 2006 look at Somalia on the Al Jazeera English program, Unreported World. Somalia is one of the most interesting places on the map today, and certainly one of the most tumultuous. Somalia is particularily interesting because it is a country defined by the borders of neighbors and not by anytype of sovereignty, making it perhaps the only and definitely the largest territory that never adopted the Westphalian system. Al Qaeda seems to want to open a “third front” in Somalia, but the fighting there has been intermittent and the rampant lawlessness and lack of major geopolitical importance negates attention.

Meet the Stans : Uzbekistan

This video is part three of a CBC four-part special about Central Asia, focusing on Uzbekistan. I’ll probably post the other parts later.

Cracking the Myths : Russian Geopolitics

From the description:

Cracking the Myths: Geopolitics
There are fears that Russia is still an aggressive state. Its image abroad is that Russia is the country with big geopolitical ambitions, a potential invader that wants to rule the world. But how many countries has it invaded in the last 20 years? Mark Ames is looking for answers to this and many other geopolitical questions in the new installment of the Cracking the Myths documentary series.

Presented by Russia Today, another international English-language media company (this one is state-owned) in a growing and neccesary field.