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Border SouthBorder South    View Trailer
Reveals the resilience, ingenuity and humor of Central American immigrants while exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.
Diamond RoadDiamond Road    View Trailer
Examines every facet of the diamond trade from the prospectors to the miners, cutters, jewelers, smugglers and dealers, and advocates for fair trade.
The HomestretchThe Homestretch    View Trailer
Three homeless teens in Chicago fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future.
The ProvidersThe Providers    View Trailer
Three healthcare providers bring care to a rural American community, showing the transformative power of providers' relationships with marginalized patients.
A Reckoning in BostonA Reckoning in Boston    View Trailer
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?
Silent KillerSilent Killer    View Trailer
Highlights promising attempts in Africa, and in South and Central America, to end world hunger.
this black soilthis black soil    View Trailer
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
A Tribe of His OwnA Tribe of His Own    View Trailer
Indian journalist reminds us of the meaning of responsible journalism.
Water FirstWater First    View Trailer
An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Which Way HomeWhich Way Home    View Trailer
The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.
Which Way Home - OriginalWhich Way Home - Original    View Trailer
The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.
An Act of Faith    View Trailer
A group of health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa providing care.

Aiming High    View Trailer
Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.

Back In Business?    View Trailer
After 11 years of civil war, can Sierra Leone expect tourism to improve the economy?

Because They're Worth It    View Trailer
Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.

Biker Boys of the Dirt Island    View Trailer
In Nairobi's Korogocho slum, a group of former thieves trying to go straight now provide an informal motorcycle taxi service.

Bolivian Blues    View Trailer
Explores the success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty.

Border South    View Trailer
Reveals the resilience, ingenuity and humor of Central American immigrants while exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.

The Boxer    View Trailer
A young male looks to escape Mexican poverty by becoming a boxer in the United States.

Brazil's Land Revolution    View Trailer
In the state of Bahia, a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land -- with low-interest government loans.

Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos    View Trailer
An uplifting story about Jupiter, Florida's humane response to an influx of day laborers from Jacaltenango, Guatemala.

Burning in the Sun    View Trailer
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali.

Busto Toxico    View Trailer
Mediante la combinación de técnicas narrativas y documentales, Busto Tóxico plantea estas preguntas, haciendo la propuesta de que muchos de estos cánceres son prevenibles.

Cash Flow Fever    View Trailer
One in ten people on the planet either send or receive money from abroad.

Cheated of Childhood    View Trailer
The International Labor Organization tries to rescue and rehabilitate the street children of St. Petersburg.

City Life    View Trailer
22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.

Cocaine Unwrapped    View Trailer
Documents the devastating effects of the war on drugs and suggests realistic alternatives.

Code Black    View Trailer
Unprecedented access to the ER at Los Angeles County Hospital provides a doctor's-eye view into the heart of our complex and overburdened healthcare system.

The Coffee-Go-Round    View Trailer
Many coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia are facing economic disaster even as the demand for coffee increases worldwide.

Company Town    View Trailer
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.

Complicit    View Trailer
The cost of our global addiction to devices is revealed in the struggle of a courageous Chinese activist helping young workers poisoned while making smartphones.

Cooked    View Trailer
Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of "disaster" by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.

A Crack in the Mountain    View Trailer
Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby.

Credit Where Credit is Due    View Trailer
Micro-credit organization in Bangladesh provides loans to village poor.

A Crime on the Bayou    View Trailer
A Black teenager is arrested for touching a white boy's arm! The unjustly arrested Black man and his young Jewish attorney take the case to the Supreme Court to fight for the right of all Americans to a fair trial.

Crisis Control    View Trailer
Ukraine's emerging HIV epidemic is contrasted with Africa's longstanding HIV/AIDS catastrophe.

Cultivating Opportunity    View Trailer
Hard-pressed farmers in the southeast US and in Mozambique find co-ops work.

Danger: Children at Work    View Trailer
Guatemalan agencies try to discourage child labor and fireworks production by poor families.

Darkness on the Edge of Town    View Trailer
Hungarian filmmaker Arpád Bogdan sets out to discover what's behind the new wave of anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary today.

Daughters of the Forest    View Trailer
A group of girls in a remote forest in Paraguay are transformed at an experimental high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and build a future for themselves.

Day One    View Trailer
Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.

The Debt Police    View Trailer
Uganda seeks external debt relief and fights internal corruption.

Detropia    View Trailer
A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.

Diamond Road    View Trailer
Examines every facet of the diamond trade from the prospectors to the miners, cutters, jewelers, smugglers and dealers, and advocates for fair trade.

The Dirty War on the National Health Service    View Trailer
John Pilger reveals how privatization has gradually infected the UK's NHS, threatening the world's first universal public health service and the exemplary values of its constitution.

Doing the Right Thing    View Trailer
Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.

The Donor Circus    View Trailer
Zambia tries to change the conditions for international aid.

Désounen    View Trailer
Impressionistic look reveals the reality of daily life in Haiti.

East of Salinas    View Trailer
José is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.

Escaping from History    View Trailer
Poverty and consumerism clash in Mexico City. What can we do?

Eternal Harvest    View Trailer
More than 50 years after the US dropped billions of tons of explosives on Laos, 1/3 of the surface area is still contaminated by UXO which kills Laotians daily. This is a film about responsibility.

Extreme By Design    View Trailer
In a Stanford multidisciplinary, project-based course, student design teams are building a better world...one product at a time.

Farmsteaders    View Trailer
Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming.

Food Coop    View Trailer
Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.

Food For Change    View Trailer
The deep history of cooperatives in America -- the country's longest-surviving alternative economic system.

For Richer, For Poorer    View Trailer
In Brazil the gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world.

Forgive Us Our Debts    View Trailer
Tells the story of the international grassroots movement to eliminate Third World debt.

Game Over    View Trailer
Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.

Geraldo's Brazil    View Trailer
Five years later, Life rejoins a Brazilian factory worker affected by the globalized economy.

The Hand That Feeds    View Trailer
Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.

Heart of the Congo    View Trailer
Documents the work done, and difficulties faced, by international aid workers in the Congo.

Helping Ourselves!    View Trailer
In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.

The Homestretch    View Trailer
Three homeless teens in Chicago fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future.

How Green Is My Valley?    View Trailer
Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.

In The Mayor's Footsteps - Brazil    View Trailer
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari visits Brazil to assess efforts to promote early childhood development there.

In The Mayor's Footsteps - Peru    View Trailer
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari is trying to convert his native Peru to his optimistic philosophy of promoting early childhood development.

Killing Poverty    View Trailer
Has the corruption in Kenya lessened under its new president?

The Legacy of Malthus    View Trailer
Argues that overpopulation is not the real cause of poverty in India or elsewhere.

Let's Make Money    View Trailer
Erwin Wagenhofer's incredible odyssey tracking our money through the worldwide finance system.

Life    View Trailer
30-part series that looks at the effect of globalization on individuals and communities around the world.

Life 3    View Trailer
A 12-part series about Globalization and its effect on ordinary people and communities around the world.

Life 4    View Trailer
A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Life 5    View Trailer
A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Life 6    View Trailer
An 11-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face as their countries struggle to meet the UN's MDGs.

Life 8    View Trailer
A new 16-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face.

Life and Debt    View Trailer
Economics and the murder of street children in Rio de Janeiro.

Like Any Other Kid    View Trailer
Follows the intimate relationships between incarcerated youth and staff who use love and structure to guide and teach youth offenders how to take responsibility for themselves.

Listen to the Kids!    View Trailer
A UNICEF initiative involves children in decisions that affect their own futures, their families and communities.

Lost Generations    View Trailer
Poor health and poverty condemn people in India to sub-standard lives.

Milking the Rhino    View Trailer
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.

The Millennium Goals    View Trailer
Explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement.

Missing Out    View Trailer
Anemia threatens the population of Niger and Tanzania.

My Mother Built This House    View Trailer
Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.

No Fear No Favor    View Trailer
African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations.

The Other Side    View Trailer
Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives.

Pavements of Gold    View Trailer
Increase in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.

The Perfect Famine    View Trailer
Examines the causes of, and solutions to, severe famine conditions in Malawi.

The Providers    View Trailer
Three healthcare providers bring care to a rural American community, showing the transformative power of providers' relationships with marginalized patients.

Ramiro Garcia in Peru    View Trailer
Social change is possible through the arts and humor.

Reaching Out to the Grassroots    View Trailer
Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

The Real Leap Forward    View Trailer
Reports on China's successful efforts to reduce poverty through sustainable development and targeted programs.

A Reckoning in Boston    View Trailer
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?

The Road from Rio    View Trailer
Questions the relevance and success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

Roma Rights    View Trailer
Breaking the cycle of Roma poverty and persecution.

Running On Empty    View Trailer
Highlights the plight of two young mothers - one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.

Scent of the Streets    View Trailer
Nigeria has had some success in getting more women into government and business. But what about in the crowded and often violent slums of Lagos?

The Silent Crisis    View Trailer
The Central African Republic struggles to avoid economic and social chaos.

Silent Killer    View Trailer
Highlights promising attempts in Africa, and in South and Central America, to end world hunger.

Slum Futures    View Trailer
The slums of Mumbai are an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world.

Sorie K and the MDGs    View Trailer
Blind musician, Sorie Kondi, from Sierra Leone looks at what's happening with girls' education in his country 10 years after civil war.

Staying Alive!    View Trailer
Poverty combined with lack of education and health services affect maternal mortality rates in Bangladesh.

Still Waters    View Trailer
In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Latinx kids reading, creative writing and Latin.

Stop the Traffick    View Trailer
Investigates horror of child sex industry in Cambodia.

The Story of Pintinho    View Trailer
A young Brazilian athlete hopes soccer will be his ticket out of poverty.

Stray Dog    View Trailer
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Debra Granik ("Winter's Bone") returns to SW Missouri for her first documentary, looking at the life of Vietnam vet, Ron "Stray Dog" Hall, and shattering some stereotypes.

this black soil    View Trailer
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.

Together Against Violence    View Trailer
Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.

Toxic Bust    View Trailer
Explores the relationship between breast cancer and exposure to toxic chemicals.

Trawler Girl    View Trailer
A female trawler captain in Namibia exemplifies goals set forth for women in the Millennium Development Goals.

Tre Maison Dasan    View Trailer
An intimate portrait of three boys growing up, each with a parent in prison.

Tre Maison Dasan - Special Offer    View Trailer
An intimate portrait of three boys growing up, each with a parent in prison.

A Tribe of His Own    View Trailer
Indian journalist reminds us of the meaning of responsible journalism.

Up in Smoke    View Trailer
Dependence on tobacco crops and manipulation by the tobacco industry has stunted the economy of Malawi.

Utopia    View Trailer
John Pilger's epic portrayal of Earth's oldest continuous human culture, Aboriginal Australians, and his investigation into Australia's suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.

The Waiting Room    View Trailer
A day in the life of a public hospital's ER waiting room captures what it means for millions of Americans to live without health insurance.

Water First    View Trailer
An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

When the Cows Come Home    View Trailer
Despite the success of the "Jamaica Hope" milk cow, Jamaica's dairy industry is facing a crisis, as EU trade undercuts island production.

Which Way Home    View Trailer
The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.

Which Way Home - Original    View Trailer
The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.

Whose Agenda Is It Anyway?    View Trailer
To fulfill the Millennium Development Goals, many poor countries are now implementing "Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs".

Works For All    View Trailer
Since 2011 Co-op Cincy has been building an inspiring network of worker-owned cooperatives in Cincinnati to create a regional economy that works for all.

Yemeni Futures    View Trailer
More than a decade after its unification, Yemen is still struggling to improve the standard of living.


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