Anthropologist and psychologist Peter Elsass studied two Indian tribes in Colombia and Venezuela over a 16-year period. In this film we see their different ways of dealing with encroaching white civilization.  more »

Here the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film to the tribes who have suffered great injustice in the intervening years.  more »

The extraordinary life of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the child of missionaries who was raised in China and developed a deep affection for the Chinese people. She became one of the most popular American writers of the 20th Century, especially for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. Archival footage and interviews provide unique insight into China in the first half of the 20th century  more »

Ebola is one of the most contagious and frightening diseases that exists today. It can kill its victim in as little as 48 hours. When it broke out in Northern Uganda, there were scant resources and little knowledge about how to deal with it at Lacor Hospital, in Gulu, Uganda.  more »

This film exposes the persecution of Christians in Egypt as Moslem fundamentalism continues to grow. Inducements to convert from Coptic Christianity range from financial and social rewards to threats of violence.  more »

Luis Miguel, a young peasant living in Oaxaca, had a dream. He wanted to lift his family out of poverty by becoming a champion Mexican boxer. He even invented a name for himself -- “El Chogui” (Little Bird)  more »

n the 1980's thousands of Salvadorans fled to refugee camps in Honduras. After years of exile, they decided to return to rebuild their country although the war was still raging.  more »

Electoral Dysfunction, an acclaimed feature-length documentary, uses humor and wit to take an irreverent—but nonpartisan—look at voting in America.  more »

A portrait of the Electric Boogie Boys, a hip hop dance group from the South Bronx. For them street dancing is a form of self-expression and a way to cope with their environment.  more »

This cutting-edge documentary ushers viewers through the hospitals, research centers, and clinics where groundbreaking research is being done on the electricity of brain function as a treatment for depression, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dystonia.  more »

This film records the most spectacular sacred ceremony of the Balinese people, held by order of the high priests to restore balance between good and evil.  more »

A portrait of Emil Synek, the filmmakers grandfather, who was a revered playwright, journalist and politician in Czechoslovakia during the era of the Second World War and the Communist takeover  more »

Haile Selassie, the late Emperor of Ethiopia, was and still is considered the living God and King by Rastafarians in Jamaica, Britain, the USA and other parts of the world. The film looks back to the 1930s when Ras Tafari was crowned Emperor and also covers the current Rasta scene.  more »

This spectacular film brings to light the priceless treasures of China's imperial art collection, relating them to the political climate of their time. It also describes how the collection survived both war and revolution in the 1930-40's.  more »

Two young soldiers, an Israeli and an Arab, encounter each other, fire their weapons; both are wounded. Using this as a starting point, the film explores the contrasting lives of the young men, giving a close-up, human view of the gulf separating them.  more »

This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941 to 1945. England's decision to give up Malaya for the defense of Europe in World War II was ultimately the end of the British Empire.  more »

The poignant, depression-age story of abandoned children from big cities who were sent West to live and work with farm families. It was the idea of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, as an alternative to institionalization.  more »

In addition to losing manual jobs, the West is finding that highly skilled jobs are also being lost to lower paid Asian technical professionals.  more »

The film follows six welfare mothers over the course of a year as they struggle to comply with new work requirements, find reliable child care and transportation, battle drug addiction and depression, confront domestic violence, and try to make ends meet in the new era of welfare reform.  more »

If all of us would know that our last days would be spent surrounded by caring people in a humane environment, such as the one we see in this film at the Royal Victoria Hospital, then dying would be less terrifying.  more »

This brilliantly conceived series of three parts investigates innovative solutions to prevent worldwide ecological disaster. Part I: Changing the Way the World Works concentrates on the "end-use philosophy." Part II: The Rich Get Richer focuses on tough, innovative laws and fresh initiatives world-wide which are helping to contain energy consumption and pollution. Part III: Power to the People focuses on the developing world where the energy debate is carried out against a background of grinding povery, limited resources and rapidly growing population.  more »

This is an exploration of influential organizations, worldwide, who lobby for the coal, oil and nuclear power industries against supporters of sustainable (renewable) energy.  more »

This fascinating documentary brings viewers to laboratories in Italy, France, Israel,and Switzerland where researchers are trying to untangle the mysterious working of the brain in order to help those who suffer from these disorders.  more »

This film, ten years in the making, investigates the death of Jonny Gammage at the hands of Brentwood (Pittsburgh) police officers. It develops into an impassioned plea for ending police brutality.  more »

This film highlights the events that led to the bankruptcy of Enron in 2001.It was the first in a series of debacles that included the mammoth corporations Tyco and WorldCom as well as the leading accounting firm Arthur Andersen.  more »

This documentary is a hard-hitting look at the heated debate over environmental action now occurring this country. It probes environmental risk, scientific uncertainty, the costs of environmental action and inaction, and the role of law in protecting our environment.  more »

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

Guinea has now become the third biggest oil producing nation in sub-Saharan Africa, with production at 300,000 barrels a day. Despite this, the country is in shambles and the oil revenues are being stolen by a corrupt government. Because of its location, away from the Arabian peninsula, Guinea is important to the U.S. since it helps the U.S. in its goal to diversify its sources of oil.  more »

Filmed after the civil war in El Salvador ended, the filmmaker traveled through out the country to hear the survivors' poignant stories and to document how former enemies are now working together to reconstruct their nation  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 »

This film documents the work of Dr. P. Gregory Warden and his team as they search the hilltops of Poggio Colia, Italy, for any clues into the mysterious Etruscan civilization.  more »

This film examines the legal, moral and ethical issues of euthanasia. Filmed mostly in Holland, the only country to permit euthanasia at the patrient's request.  more »

Egyptologist Tony Mills unearths artifacts and examines skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," an area around the Dakhleh Oasis, far away from the pyramids and the Nile.  more »

Shows a state-of-the-art maximum security prison, Potosi Correctional Center, where all the inmates face either death or life in prison without parole.  more »

We visit five alternative sentencing programs around the country to find alternatives to imprisonment or probation.  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 »

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