10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

10 questions about democracy are answered by Metallica rock star Lars Ulrich, football super star Pelé, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, author Margaret Atwood, architect Daniel Libeskind, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Film Director Ken Loach, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and many others.

Please Vote for Me charts the election of the class monitor in a Chinese school, a rare example of democracy in action in China. At first all goes well, but soon the manipulation and dirty tricks start and we wonder whether democracy could ever exist without them. ABOUT WHY DEMOCRACY? OCTOBER 8th 2007 marks the start of the most ambitious factual media event in broadcast history. More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and an international newspaper are working together for the first time ever to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why Democracy? At the heart of the season are 10 documentaries made by prestigious filmmakers from across the planet. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school, from Che Guevara to the Danish cartoons scandal - the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today. www.whydemocracy.net

OCTOBER 8th 2007 marks the start of the most ambitious factual media event in broadcast history. More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and an international newspaper are working together for the first time ever to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why Democracy? At the heart of the season are 10 documentaries made by prestigious filmmakers from across the planet. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school, from Che Guevara to the Danish cartoons scandal - the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today. Ten questions permeate the Why Democracy? season. We are interviewing world leaders, celebrities, intellectuals and everyday people, to find out what their answers are. WWW.WHYDEMOCRACY.NET

Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London - answers the 10 questions on democracy. www.whydemocracy.net

OCTOBER 8th 2007 marks the start of the most ambitious factual media event in broadcast history. More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and an international newspaper are working together for the first time ever to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why Democracy? At the heart of the season are 10 documentaries made by prestigious filmmakers from across the planet. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school, from Che Guevara to the Danish cartoons scandal - the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today. Ten questions permeate the Why Democracy? season. We are interviewing world leaders, celebrities, intellectuals and everyday people, to find out what their answers are. www.whydemocracy.net

Regina Spektor answers questions about democracy. OCTOBER 8th 2007 marks the start of the most ambitious factual media event in broadcast history. More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and an international newspaper are working together for the first time ever to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why Democracy? At the heart of the season are 10 documentaries made by prestigious filmmakers from across the planet. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school, from Che Guevara to the Danish cartoons scandal - the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today. Ten questions permeate the Why Democracy? season. We are interviewing world leaders, celebrities, intellectuals and everyday people, to find out what their answers are. www.whydemocracy.net

Bjorn Ulvaeus from the pop band ABBA answers 10 questions about democracy. OCTOBER 8th 2007 marks the start of the most ambitious factual media event in broadcast history. More than 35 broadcasters worldwide, a global web presence and an international newspaper are working together for the first time ever to debate the dominant political issue of our time. They are asking the question: Why Democracy? At the heart of the season are 10 documentaries made by prestigious filmmakers from across the planet. With subjects ranging from US torture methods to the election of a class monitor in a Chinese primary school, from Che Guevara to the Danish cartoons scandal - the films take a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the world we live in today. Ten questions permeate the Why Democracy? season. We are interviewing world leaders, celebrities, intellectuals and everyday people, to find out what their answers are. www.whydemocracy.net

Life and livelihood were heavily at stake when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed. Karsten Kjaer takes us through the events that followed, and travels the world to question the protesters and explore their motivations. Could a few Muhammed Cartoons have affected the future of free speech?

Democracy is nothing without fair elections, and Egypt’s record of controlling votes is universally criticized. Rather than just complain, the three women who founded Shayfeen.com (Egypt: We are Watching You) started to do something about it. Leila Menjou followed them as they risked life and livelihood for democracy.

At the other end of the spectrum, Liberia is reveling in a rejuvenated democracy, led by the indomitable Ellen Sirleaf Johnson. Daniel Junge and co-director Siatta Scott-Johnson spent a year with President Sirleaf as she and her coterie of Iron Ladies of Liberia battle to rebuild a shattered country. After an hour in her company, you believe that if anyone can do it, she can.

Dictatorship of a rather different kind is evident in Durakovo, the ‘Village of Fools’ in Russia where Mikhail Morozov has created a community that follows his every word. His ideals are For God, Tsar and Fatherland – his community harks back to the days before Perestroika, Nino Kirtadze spent months seeing whether it could work.