Plot Against the Pope/Chaos Theory/Doctor Miracle
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has been an outspoken defender of the poor, refugees and LGBT people. That has ultra-conservatives within and outside the Church riled up. Now they're attacking him. Dennis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, has treated thousands of victims of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last year he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. A Russian troll farm in St Petersburg latched onto wedge issues in America-race, immigration, gun control-and spread disinformation around them online to sow discord in America. The goal was to get Americans off their computers and onto the streets.
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Made In China

Sat, Jul 13, 2019
NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel visits China to take an inside look at the country's booming growth. China's economy has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. But have the advances come from a level playing field? NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel visited Shenzhen to find out how startups are learning from Western goods.
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The Rise and Fall of Isis
Richard Engel presents a look at ISIS, the most brutal terrorist group in modern history. How do they recruit, and have they really been defeated? NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel takes an in-depth look at how ISIS used their military and reputation for brutality to capture a large territory in Iraq and Syria before clashing with the people who fought back.
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Trump & Ukraine: Fact and Fiction
Whether President Trump was making aid to Ukraine contingent on a political favor is the question now driving the impeachment inquiry. Was he, as Rep. Adam Schiff contends, engaged in a "shakedown" of a foreign president? NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel looks into what Rudy Giuliani and the Trump administration were trying to accomplish in Ukraine.
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American Betrayal
In fall 2019, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the northern Syrian border, effectively abandoning longtime allies the Kurds, and opening the door for Turkey to commence ethnic cleansing. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel immediately dispatched to the frontlines where he was able to tap into extensive contacts to document the invasion and its aftermath..
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The Dream of Shahrazad

The Dream of Shahrazad

THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD is a feature-length documentary film that brings together the famous story collection THE 1001 (or "ARABIAN") NIGHTS with recent political events in Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon... Description The "Arab Spring" of early 2011 was a momentous global event, raising great hopes for anyone interested in the forward march of humanity. No one, however, is yet sure about the meaning or consequences of these events... THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD is a feature-length documentary film which locates the Egyptian revolution - and also recent political changes in Turkey and Lebanon - within a broader historical and cultural framework: that of storytelling and music. More particularly, it looks at the legacy of the famous collection of stories known as THE 1001 (or "ARABIAN") NIGHTS. Weaving together a web of music, politics and storytelling, the film follows a series of unforgettable characters, all of whom draw their inspiration from the NIGHTS and whom, like Shahrazad - the storytelling princess in the NIGHTS who saves lives by telling stories - puts creativity to new political use... A young female Turkish violinist travels to Istanbul, where a charismatic conductor uses Rimsky-Korsakov's SCHEHERAZADE suite as a tool for political education, leading up to a final performance at Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. A young Lebanese woman makes peace with her past by learning the art of storytelling in Egypt. An older visual artist who is obsessed with THE NIGHTS finds his "dream of Shahrazad" manifesting through the appearance of a beautiful young storyteller. Members of a Cairo theatre troupe meet with the mothers of martyrs of the January 25 Revolution and turn their testimonies into new storytelling performances... This richly kaleidoscopic film is at once observational documentary, concert film, political essay and visual translation of an ever-popular symphonic and literary classic. It is a documentary homage to THE NIGHTS, to the SCHEHERAZADE suite, and to the role of a rich historical and creative legacy within huge current political change.

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