This artfully made documentary shows that Alzheimer’s disease need not be the end of a loving relationship. Filmmaker Brenda King stood by her mother from her first lapse through her decline  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 »

Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She seems to communicate with race horses, goats, dogs and cats whose owners want to discover what is troubling their animals.  more »

Divorced and living apart from her grown children, Elizabeth discovered she had incurable cancer. The film is about her loyal and loving friends and family who shared in her care and kept her company throughout this critical period.  more »

The original, award winning feature length version of the Double Dutch Divas. We meet the energetic women who jump to entertain and promote sisterhood.  more »

Chinese sculptor and painter Liao Yibai recounts his remarkable life. He depicts his childhood in his imaginative and ironic stainless-steel sculptures, reflecting the complex cultural relationship between China and the US.  more »

This delightful film tells the story of Mura Dehn, a Russian-born dancer who came to America in the 1930's, and dedicated herself to preserving jazz dance on film.  more »

This groundbreaking film profiles an experimental program recently begun in Switzerland: "sex workers" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged.  more »

By getting a bit of start up money, these women in Ghana have been able to start small businesses.  more »

Kiran Bedi is small woman with a huge mission. A police woman and a social reformer, she has been compared to Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi.  more »

Dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, works with a group of teenagers with Marfan syndrome, a little-known and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder, designing movement and dance that capitalizes on their shaky long bodies and unexpectedly inspires their self-esteem.  more »

This film explores the stories of three adult children who have returned to live with their parents as they grapple with current struggles, future dreams, and past failures.  more »

As a young surgeon, Dr. Lucille Teasdale founded a hospital in Uganda where she dedicated her life to providing quality health care and staff training.  more »

This film documents the filmmaker's seven-year search for the elusive father he never knew and his coming to terms with the truth of his origins.  more »

The insomniac-filmmaker, hasn’t slept like a baby since he was one. He has spent thousands of nights thinking about sleep when he should be sleeping. He decides to get help, meeting with the world’s top sleep doctors and scientists.  more »

This documentary follows the journey of a doctor trying to balance his own enthusiasm for medical technology with an acceptance that, after a long and healthy life, it may be time to go.  more »

This is a poignant portrait of the migrant farm worker from Mexico in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, CA. Undocumented, they have no way to protect themselves from exploitation.  more »

This documentary follows two Reuters cameramen living and working in the West Bank city of Hebron. The film shows journalists being attacked and shot at by Israeli soldiers.  more »

Takes us to a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where circumcised women are given medical care.  more »

A monument to the suffering of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. Includes the newly discovered film footage of the massacre shot by John McGee, an American missionary who was living in Nanjing.  more »

Two Peruvian musicians journey into the rainforest to preserve the traditional tribal music and instruments before they vanish completely. (more)  more »

In this shockingly frank program we hear adult women tell of the childhood experiences that so traumatized their later years. Included is the testimony of a formerly abusive father who underwent psychiatric treatment. (  more »

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 »

India’s booming private healthcare system is expected to be worth billions of dollars in the decades to come, as westerners flock to India to get healthy. Fed up with long lines and exorbitant fees at home, these patients can now fly to the subcontinent and go straight to the front of the line for cheap operations in newly built, hi-tech hospitals.  more »

The film is an eye-opening look at the plight of the 260 million untouchables struggling with marginalization in modern India.  more »

Using archival footage never before seen in the West, this epic film traces the history of the past hundred years on the Indian subcontinent with all of its religious, ethnic and political turbulence.  more »

As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants.  more »

In 2005, centuries of oppression, Indians in Bolivia began demanding their rights, leaving the country on the verge of civil war.  more »

Indie Game: The Movie explores the world of video game creation, shining a spotlight on the underdogs of the video game industry—independent game developers—who sacrifice money, health, and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their visions with the world.  more »

This gripping documentary chronicles the devastating effect of giant book chains on the country's independent bookstores. During the golden years of the independents, there were 5,200 members of the American Booksellers Association -- today there are fewer than 3,000.  more »

This documentary gives us a rare opportunity to meet young artists and intellectuals in Beijing and hear how they steer a course between survival and artistic expression.  more »

This gripping documentary introduces a young public defender in Washington, D.C., extraordinarily committed to young black men and women who cannot afford representation.  more »

A probing look at the situation in Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, including an interview with Castro.  more »

The truth of Pinochet¹s brutal regime is revealed in this secretly filmed record of one of the concentration camps, in the desert where prisoners were held without a trial.  more »

From the rice paddies in the country to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, this lively film allows us to view contemporary Vietnam through a unique perspective: the culture of rice. The history of this small grain is intertwined with rites and customs that are an integral part of Vietnamese life and culture.  more »

China's students are marching in formation and chanting miliary slogans. But behind the closed dormitory doors at Nanjing University, they act surprisingly similar to Western students. A frank look at the generation torn between communism and capitalism.  more »

It has become apparent over the past few years that an increasingly destabilized Saudi Arabia is more willing to listen to Islamic fundamentalists and to bankroll the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in a holy war against the West. This film obtained rare access to the "closed kingdom," where we see a country full of frustrated young people sixty percent under the age of 25 who are increasingly alienated, both by some in the royal family and perceived American aggression against Muslim countries  more »

North Korea is known as the hermit kingdom because it has been cut off from the rest of the world. Cruelly colonized by Japan early in the 20th century, and split from the south after World War II by cold war politics, it has suffered repressive governments and frequent famines.  more »

These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China - finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics - put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition. Please note the varying lengths.  more »

These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China—finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics—put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition.  more »

These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China - finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics - put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition. Please note the varying lengths.  more »

These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China - finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics - put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition. Please note the varying lengths.  more »

These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China - finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics - put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition. Please note the varying lengths.  more »

This fascinating program investigates the historical, cultural and modern scientific approach to confirming the existence of our pre-cognitive abilities. Scientific researchers are pushing the science of parapsychology forward and are proving that a correlation exists between physical science and parapsychology.  more »

A story of the silent victims of the Middle East conflict, the gay Palestinians who are persecuted and outcast by Israelis and Palestinians alike.  more »

This disturbing documentary profiles a chilling subculture among American youth. Racist and "anti-racist" groups have been at war with each other, assaulting and even murdering one another to the consternation of their communities and the police  more »

An expose of the part played by multinational corporations, Third World debt and trade barriers in fueling poverty and environmental destruction in the poorest countries.  more »

Three questions are asked in this film, providing an overview of social psychology: What is its subject matter? What are its methods of investigation? What are some of its findings?  more »

In this documentary film, captured at the Santa Fe Art Institute, viewers hear from a diverse array of artists, including sculptors, painters, weavers, musicians, and writers. They share their thoughts and feelings as they journey on a chartless path to creating a masterpiece.  more »

Iran, an Islamic republic, has the largest number of internet users in the Middle East. A large dissident population is finding new ways to communicate, risking arrest, prison, torture and even death as they try to organize resistance to the repressive religious government.  more »

This documentary looks at women who work in the field of ironworking, a construction trade that is overwhelmingly male, and the attendant physical and emotional problems the women face.  more »

This delightful film shows ten young women who aspire to to be dancers in musical theater as they take a master class with choreographer Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon. They share with us their insecurities about their bodies.  more »

Is Love Enough? provides a remarkable window on an unexplored phenomenon in a balanced fashion: can a mentally disabled person be a good parent?  more »

Through the personal experiences of three families, this documentary explores the ethical issues involved in sustaining the life of a severely brain damaged or comatose patient.  more »

The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. The author of nearly twenty novels, her books have been translated in over thirty languages. In this film, she reveals how events in her life impacted on her writing.  more »

This provocative documentary examines the political, social, and economic causes of the schism between the Islamic world and the West.  more »

No religion is growing faster in Western prisons than Islam. In the U.S. alone there are more than 200,00 converts. They are mainly black converts searching for an alternative to Christianity.  more »

The film captures the intensity of Islamic fundamentalists and the willingness of extremists to eliminate all opposition. Candid interviews with Arab leaders show the difficulties of having a Western style democracy in countries where there is so much illiteracy and poverty.  more »

This film is the record of these meetings of the Geneva Initiative that succeeded in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table in order to discussion a peaceful solution to their conflict.  more »

The stories of six educated, articulate women who are among the "hidden homeless"; those who have lost a job, lost a home, and refuse to go to a shelter.  more »

In this powerful film about Jewish ritual circumcision of infant sons, the possible aftereffects are revealed. It was directed by a concerned Jewish parent.  more »

A portrait of a family with three autistic children who have different degrees of the disorder. One with Aspergers is most verbal in defining his limitations.  more »