For thousands of young Hondurans, the only hope of finding a way out of the grinding poverty of their existence is to hop a train headed for 'el norte'--the north; either the United States or Canada. They'll risk their lives on a dangerous and illegal 5000-kilometre journey.

Travel with them on a sometimes terrifying, always dramatic, route that is their one chance for a new future. It's reality television like you've never seen it before.

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Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.

Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary.

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Most cases of sexual misconduct in the classroom--between teachers and students--go undisclosed and unreported. Victims are silenced by guilt and shame and school authorities are simply reluctant to believe the worst, especially when it comes to sexual misconduct by female teachers. Experts say the few cases we read about in the newspaper are just the tip of the iceberg.

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