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Group of teenagers eating together with 1 using a wheelchair. Caption. Male translator as narrator. Sometimes there are inaccessible places.
26 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing hat and casual jacket crouches down. Caption. That has reflected them in manner and style.
24 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Closeup of a young man riding a motorbike past a shanty with a metal roof. Caption. To a lot of improvements in Korogocho.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 11
25 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Man sits on a red scooter and turns his head to look over his shoulder. 3 men gather beneath trees in the background. Caption. Florencia and Yurani's dilemma isn't just that of professionals.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 4
26 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
A white church with bell tower in foreground. A gray building with blue minarets appears behind church. Caption. Can be seen in Kyrgyzstan as well.
22 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 10
Aerial view of a city crowded with buildings and interspersed with trees. Taller buildings fill the background. Caption. Bradshaw as narrator. São Paulo, the richest state in Brazil.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 9
29 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
3 women with head coverings seated at table. Caption. It's just when men come in that we have to cover.
22 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A police van with its side door open is parked on a city street. Caption. That the Roma are blamed for crimes they didn't commit.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 12
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
2 men sit on a bench facing the water, 1 with his back to camera and 1 turning to the side to face the other. Caption. When Lamu came under the control of the Sultan of Oman.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 7
25 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
2 Congolese women stand next to a field. 1 faces away from camera toward the other woman who looks down at a baby that she holds on her hip. Caption. He delivered the baby himself and the child survived.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 15
25 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
A bearded man and a boy look at each other as they stand between 2 trees next to pipes on the ground. A brown field stretches out behind them. Caption. They've made money on their investment.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 16
25 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
A man in a suit and tie looking downward with a painting and a map on the wall behind him. Caption: he wrote fake customs documents.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 17
26 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Woman hands a cup to a seated man in a dark room. A child sits in the foreground. Caption. He was saying, "Here am I feeling at risk for my life."
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 18
25 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Black woman, seated next to young Black man, faces camera and gestures using sign language, 2 index fingers linked together. Caption. Like those of deaf women and the role they play in their family.
25 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Woman in a headwrap looks down as she holds up a baby beside her. Caption. Joining 2 young mothers in 2 very different societies.
Life
Season 0 / Ep 3
30 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Closeup profile of a woman looking out a window at a field lined with trees. Caption. But still the basic human rights are under siege in this country.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 23
26 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Sierra Leonean children in green and yellow school uniforms sit in rows outdoors. Some hold notebooks on their laps. Caption. And have to put the books on their laps to write.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 24
26 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Group of people sit around a large table with microphones and recording equipment. Some write and look at papers. Caption. See, the I, C, C doesn't have the death penalty.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 10
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Blurry close up of a soccer goal with players on a field and crowded stands in the background. Caption. It was a good match.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 14
25 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Crystal blue water is flanked by rocks on the right side. 2 buildings surrounded by trees line the shore in the background. Caption. I think it might be possible to put sea walls around it.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 13
26 minutes
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Low shot looking up at a person walking a tightrope line while holding a balancing pole at their chest. In the background, a multi-story building towers above. Caption. I am part of those reasons too, I guess.
This Is My World
Episode 2
56 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Child sits on his knees watching a monkey who is crouching over nearby. Also in view are 2 people's legs and a collection of sundry items. Caption. I'm worried people will be afraid of him.
This Is My World
Episode 1
57 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
2 individuals in blue shirts face away from camera as they carry baskets on their heads. They walk in a field while the sun glows on the horizon. Caption. Then I just used to chop the wood on my own.
Life On The Edge
Season 0 / Ep 25
26 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
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