Filmmaker Christine Choy (Who Killed Vincent Chin) goes on a Kafkaesque journey to reclaim her family house.  more »

"The film captures the spirit and resilience of a group of Korean women who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. Now in their sixties and seventies, they live together in a shared community where they heal from the shame of having been "comfort women."  more »

The Chinese Communist revolution promised women equality after thousands of years of subservience to men. This film takes us to remote villages and urban factories to show how women are still oppressed.  more »

Directed by a Brazilian filmmaker, the film gives a socio/political framework to the devastation of the Amazon.  more »

From the renowned Under the Sun series of BBC, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north.  more »

Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe.  more »

Duka and her young friend Gardi excitedly prepare to marry men they have never met.  more »

Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and infant son. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband  more »

Hansel Mieth is the compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of mid-20th century America.  more »

Drawing a distinction between the lasting state of happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what happens in the brain, and possibly in the genes, that makes some people happy and others sad. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain.  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 »

Part documentary, part dance performance, this film was inspired by the music of blues harmonica player Sonny Terry. His work, Harmonica Breakdown, is deeply rooted in its social and historical context.  more »

Hopkins was invited by Roosevelt to head the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression and within four weeks, he had put four million people to work. This film shows how his unshakable belief in public service was vital to his country.  more »

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection beween the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time.  more »

Three women and one man recall the childhood sexual traumas that destroyed their youth. They speak candidly about the recovery process which released them from symptoms that had plagued their lives.  more »

This important documentary investigates the effect of incest on three women as it illuminates their journey from pain and despair to recovery to finally working to end the cycle of incest.  more »

This documentary shows that the attempt to contain medical costs can reduce hospital stays and unnecessary tests, but may compromise the quality of care.  more »

After sixty-five years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore the unfamiliar world of sound. In this deeply personal memoir, the filmmaker documents the profound changes in her parents' lives after the surgery.  more »

Based on Dwight Conquergood's research, this documentary gives voice to the street youth and reveals their underground culture. It weaves an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and—all too often—death.  more »

This inspiring love story from Norway follows Kare and his girlfriend Maybritt , both of whom are affected with Down syndrome. They go on dates, fall in love and become engaged. But the course of true love is never easy!  more »

This unique film takes a journey down the Niger River in Mali, West Africa, past rarely seen traditional African architecture. The strikingly beautiful ancient mosques and palaces of legendary cities like Timbuktu and Djenne were built with mud and have stood for over a thousand years.  more »

An intrepid woman who reported on events in China during the turbulent 30's and gained the friendship of Mao's inner circle.  more »

Her Brilliant Career examines discrimination in the workplace and politics, and highlights a controversial program for women executives in the US.  more »

This colorful film portrays three Sami women of different generations as they follow the reindeer herds of Lapland.  more »

How does killing change the person who pulls the trigger? Hidden Battles is a dramatic exploration of the psychological impact of war on five soldiers.  more »

This fascinating film portrays the life and work of five outstanding women photographers, who perfected their craft in an era when photography was a man's domain. Included are Gisele Freund and Lisette Model, the teacher of Diane Arbus.  more »

A portrait of the International High School in New York City where recent immigrants from 43 countries create the most multicultural classroom imaginable. The film shows how cultural and racial differences can be reconciled within an educational system.  more »

The film chronicles Hillary Rodham Clinton's early years as a good-natured and idealistic college student, and her evolution into politics.  more »

Told through the words of 76 unique narrators, this delicate film delivers an intimate portrait of the cycle of a woman’s life.  more »

This psychological dual biography exposes the chilling parallels -- and the glaring differences -- of these two dictators. Includes exceptional footage from film archives in Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Great Britain and the U.S.  more »

This film, based on newsreel footage and interviews with contemporaries, traces the story of Ho Chi Minh's life, the Vietnamese leader who against seemingly insurmountable odds humiliated two of the world's strongest armies, the American and the French.  more »

Holy Water-Gate explores the lengths to which sexual abuse has been systematically obscured in Catholic organizations throughout the nation.  more »

This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to have home deliveries with midwives.  more »

This is the story of the immigration of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos to America. The film explores history through the personal stories of representative families.  more »

When Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, the frontier between the former British territory and Shenzhen, the prosperous special economic zone, theoretically disappeared. However, in actuality the border is still closed and integration is slow to occur.  more »

During World War II, a unit of second generation Japanese immigrants was fighting bravely on the European front. Their regiment became the most highly decorated in American history. However, at home, their families were being interned.  more »

Salamanca, New York, is the only city in the US situated entirely on land owned by Native Americans, from whom the townspeople rented their property. But in 1991, the lease expired and the two communities were caught in a web of historical injustice.  more »

This film sheds light on the problems of homeless people who are mentally ill. It shows the impact on their families and the resources available to help them  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 »

A tribute to both the pioneering and Native American women in the West at the turn of the century.  more »

For two centuries, Mississippi blacks have had to endure slavery, poverty, discrimination, and violence. Finally in the 1960's, the civil rights campaign in the South brought real change. Mississippi now has thirteen elected black sheriffs. This film tells the story of one of them: Sheriff Frank Davis and how he gained acceptance by the community of Port Gibson as its major law enforcer.  more »

This portrait of young Chinese rock musicians in Beijing provides a glimpse into the lives of a generation awakened by Western cultural forces, despite the conservatism of their parents’ generation and their government.  more »

Startling occurrences of aggression in youth gangs are depicted and related to key scientific findings.  more »

Through exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artworks, this film provides a history of the Haitian people's struggle for freedom.  more »

This Nature of Things documentary takes a sobering look at how the explosive growth in the world population affects our planet's resources.  more »

An urgent environmental problem of our times is the disposal of human waste. The relationship between drinking water and waste effluents, disease and contaminants, is explained clearly in this challenging program.  more »

When a sexual predator is released from jail, his accusers often worry that they may now be at risk, or that he will return to their community, placing others in danger. In the situation presented in this compelling film, it is the convicted criminal who is being stalked.  more »

Lesley Bilinda, the Scottish widow of a Rwandan black pastor, returns ten years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide to search for his murderers only to find the truth illusive and forgiveness impossible. Lesley had met Charles when she was working as a nurse in Rwanda but their life together was shattered as genocide swept the country.  more »

This important film illuminates the issues surrounding the use of hydrogen instead of oil for energy. Experts caution that the world's oil reserves will be depleted in forty years. Jeremy Rifkin believes that hydrogen with renewable energy sources could free us from oil dependency and pollution.  more »

By examining the early history of the area, the film shows how blacks influenced British Columbia to join the Confederation of Canada instead of becoming part of the United State  more »

This engrossing series chronicles the black experience in Canada from their arrival as slaves in the 17th century to their current achievements.  more »

Few people know that slavery existed in Canada as it did in the United States. Using illustrations, maps, archival documents and photographs, it shows how slaves were kept and sold in Canada until 1863, thirty-two years before the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation.  more »

The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the United States had settled in Nova Scotia.  more »

The Duvall family are descendents of fugitive slaves who fled New Orleans by way of the Underground Railway in the 1860's. There were, at that time, already 25,000 free black people in Canada.  more »