Mira Nair's award-winning film shows the life of female strippers in a Bombay nightclub. The women reveal their hopes and fears, while showing strength and resilience.  more »

Mira Nair's latest documentary is a portrait of the "serious laughers" who meet daily in India - and now in the U.S. as well - to laugh as a group in order to improve their health.  more »

Mira Nair's portrait of a family split between two worlds. The husband has come to America to seek his fortune, while his despairing wife is left ashamed and dependent on her in-laws for support.  more »

A film that shows that mid-life may be an opportunity for growth. Women aged 40 to 60 share the thoughts and experience that enrich this new stage of their lives.  more »

How do cults hold on to their disciples? This film explains how long-term conditioning takes place.  more »

A devastating account of the discrimination and impoverishment of the Roma in Eastern Slovakia.  more »

Former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis fathered two sons. One was with a white woman with whom he was in love but felt he couldn't marry in the racial climate of the sixties. The other was with a black woman with whom he had an unhappy marriage. Hubert Davis, the film director, was the mixed-race son who for many years did not know his father. This film movingly explores the pain of sons growing up with an absent father and its effect on their mothers.  more »

House calls by doctors are largely a thing of the past. But one doctor realized how vulnerable his frail elderly housebound patients were, and has devoted his practice to seeing them at home. In this way they are spared the necessity of entering nursing homes.  more »

From the National Film Board of Canada's series "The Elderly at Risk", these portraits of families from all walks of life, shed light on the hidden tragedy of elder abuse.  more »

The emotional story of a family forced to deal with schizophrenia not once, but twice. Two brothers were afflicted with the disease. The third made this film.  more »

This film highlights the struggle that people with disabilities face in their quest to be recognized as sexual beings, free to express their sexuality and lead sexually active lives, whether heterosexual or homosexual. One of the women profiled is a lesbian who is severly hearing disabled.  more »

Using old photographs and interviews, this film tells the remarkable tale of the courageous Asian women who left their families and all that was familiar to settle in the New World and marry men they had never met. The men had come to build the transcontinental railroad. The film is a testimony to the strength, resourcefulness and dignity of these women.  more »

In this documentary we hear from four women who have provided continuous care for a loved one, who speak candidly of the physical and emotional stress of this responsibility. They are in need of support systems as much as those they nurture  more »

The film follows a 12 -year-old Turkish girl, who undertakes the spiritual and physical training to learn ritual whirling, as done by the Whirling Dervishes.  more »

A poignant, humorous and unforgettable portrayal of three men struggling with schizophrenia. We learn how they and their families cope with the vagaries of the illness.  more »

This is the story of African American women who migrated from the rural South during the first three decades of the 20th century and worked as domestic workers to support their families. We meet women of spirit and humor who tell how they survived difficult times  more »

This film shares the story of Madame C.J. Walker, the daughter of slaves who became America's first self-made millionairess.  more »

A short film that demystifies the disorder known as epilepsy.  more »

Once a year, about one hundred companies seeking dominant positions in China’s booming economy, compete in an auction for television advertising time. This film reveals China’s hectic embrace of market economics presenting a close look at the TV ad auction and the companies bidding .  more »

Africa is a continent fraught with problems. This series spotlights five former Western colonies (Somalia, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe), putting in clear perspective the gravity of the situation that wars, refugees, famine and disease have brought on them. Globalization has forced some African nations into heavy debt. While industrial nations argue for human rights, the series shows that there are survival issues that may be even more pressing.  more »

Islam has influenced West Africa since the 11th century, but only in the last 100 years has the religion grown so rapidly in Senegal and Mali.  more »

Independent since 1960, Somalia has seen virtually constant political upheaval. Chaos still reigns in the capital, Mogadishu, and throughout Somalia.  more »

South Africa emerged from the evils of Apartheid more than a decade ago, but its problems are endemic. Zimbabwe, once under British rule, still reels from the aftereffects of independence.  more »

This film takes us to a remote part of Yunan province in China where the Lisu people have lived for generations in a village carved out of a steep mountain gorge, cheerily battling the elements to go about their daily tasks.  more »

Christine, a 46-year-old with a distinguished career in science, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Three years later she met and married Paul, who loved her despite the diagnosis. Now, ten years later, she still lectures and writes about her experience with the disease.  more »

Cyborg technology is a revolutionary development in rehabilitation medicine. It allows the brain and nervous system to manipulate specially engineered devices that help people regain the use of impaired body function.  more »

A step-by-step chronicle of how a public relations firm used the media to sway world opinion against the Serbs during the Balkan War.  more »

The film examines the tremendous influence Google has on the corporate world and culture at large.  more »

This richly photographed film captures the courtship rituals of the Miao who live deep in the mountains of China, preserving the traditions of the past. Young men and women woo each other with soulful songs.  more »

Goat herders, who typify a traditional community, are successfully adapting to a global economy as they are freed from government restraints.  more »

Japanese waste is turning into gold in the hands of Chinese dealers who extract valuable metal and plastic from mountains of scrap. But not all Japanese trash is welcome.  more »

There is a craze for motor bikes in Ho Chi Minh City. Many save, scrimp, or borrow to buy one This report on the motor bike phenomenon, allows a rare look at the Vietnamese people in a rapidly changing time.  more »

This film focuses on the small village of New Paltz, N.Y. where the 26-year-old mayor Jason West stunned his neighbors and the nation by performing 25 same-sex marriages in defiance of state law. The film probes the debate on same-sex marriage as it relates to the Constitution and the family.  more »

This Academy Award winning film is a delightfully warm documentary about a senior citizens' chorus and an elementary school chorus who join for a combined concert, creating a magical performance.  more »

Since 1993, hundreds of young women who worked in the "maquiladoras" in Juarez, Mexico, have been murdered, and the crimes barely investigated. Many of the victims were assembly-line workers in the over 400 mostly US-owned factories.  more »

This highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache coming of age ceremony that marks the passage to womanhood of Apache young women.  more »

A little kingdom in northern Cameroon looks like a throwback to the Arabian Nights, but 20th-century political currents intrude.  more »

To help their children excel in the Japanese school system, parents send them to an academic boot camp that forces them to study almost around the clock.  more »

In Beijing stands the only hospital in China devoted to giving the terminally ill a death with dignity.  more »

A grassroots movement, spearheaded by newly educated women, has successfully halted female circumcision in Senegal.  more »

The looting of ancient artifacts from the troubled regions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is an ongoing scandal. This film reveals the closely knit network of looters, smugglers, dealers, collectors and academics which encourages this illegal trade .  more »

The relationship between cocoa and slavery is explored in this history of Sao Tome and Principe, islands off the western coast of Africa.  more »