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Link TV is your home for fascinating documentaries from around the world, both on air and online! These films will inspire, challenge and entertain you. Reach across borders and check out this week's featured documentaries.

 

And remember - there are tons of other great docs to watch free online, at any time!

 

  • Sarabah

    In this stirring documentary meet Sister Fa, a brilliant and tough-minded 27-year-old rapper from Senegal. As a victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she has devoted herself to ending the practice in her homeland.

     

  • Prison Island Bastoy

    This eye-opening documentary tells the story of 115 long-time prisoners serving out the last part of their sentences on an island with no jail cells, cameras, or fences -- and guards without weapons.

  • Bill McKibben - The Making of a Movement

    The man who launched a global movement and became one of the most prominent environmental activists of our time shares his unique insights on the environment, organizing, and creating change.

  • On the Road

    This three-part documentary series exposes the extraordinary richness of the world's cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced, and gestured via the literatures -- oral and written -- which both contain and define them.

  • The Health Show

    Each week, The Health Show brings you the most important health stories from around the world, including extraordinary inventions in the fight against HIV, biker nurses, and breakthroughs in early tuberculosis diagnosis.

  • David Wants to Fly

    To meet master film director David Lynch in person and talk to him about filmmaking! A dream come true for young David Sieveking, who first finds himself sitting face-to-face with his idol in spring 2006.

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CULTURE & TRAVEL

Czech Dream

Bridge to Iran Series

Rajput Moustaches

MADE IN TAIWAN Series Documentaries

4REAL Series
explore.org Specials

Hair India
Glow of White Women
Cinema Encounters in Tehran

Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

Megunica

Antoine

On the Road Series

Prison Island Bastoy

Bilal 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bilal

Kindergarten

Open Book

Japan: A Story of Love and Hate

The Miscreants of Taliwood

     

Health

 

Blood in the Mobile

Moving the Mountain

Bridge to Iran: We Are Half of Iran's
Population

To Educate a Girl

Peanuts

 

HUMAN RIGHTS & HEALTH

The Mothers Index

Smile Pinki
The Bicycle
One Good Idea
ViewChange: Film Contest Collection
ViewChange: Crossing the Gender Gap

ViewChange: Health is Hope

A Dollar a Day: Bombay Jungle

A Dollar a Day: The New Silver

A Dollar a Day: Made in China

A Dollar a Day: The Tunnel and Other Lies

A Dollar a Day: The Price of Cotton

A Dollar a Day: The Strongest Link

The Health Show

Sarabah

   

ENVIRONMENT

Earth Focus: Chernobyl - The Real Story
A Thousand Suns
Nora!
Burning the Future
The Real McCoys

Green Goes Global

 

 Oceans 8   

Inside Islam

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

The Unwinking Gaze

Global Spirit Series
Lunch with Bokara Series
Bokara's Conversations on Consciousness
Who Speaks for Islam?
US-Muslim Engagement Project
Ethics and the World Crisis

David Wants to Fly

    

MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES

Favela Rising

Rappers, Divas & Virtuosos Series

El Ultimo Bandoneon

Wu Tang Gran

 El Ultimo Bandoneon     

Brazil: A Report on Torture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting for Mercy: The Case
Against Yassin Aref and
Mohammed Hossain

The Reckoning

The Miscreants of Taliwood

POLITICS, WAR & CONFLICT

Not In Our Town - The Billings, Montana Story

ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery

Peace Wanted Alive: Kenya at the Crossroads

To See If I Am Smiling

Spotlight: Blood Antiques

The Seeker (L'identificateur)
Blueprint for Accountability
Brazil: A Report on Torture
Occupied Minds

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Blood in the Mobile

Speaking of Baghdad

 

   

INTERVIEWS & SPEECHES

Noam Chomsky: Who Controls the Message

Arianna Huffington on Third World America

Bill McKibben - The Making of a Movement

Robert Scheer on the Great American Stickup

Amy Goodman: The Courage of Truth

Amy Goodman: We Will Not Be Silent

Amy Goodman: At the New Living Expo

Amy Goodman: Independent Media in
the Obama Era

Eliot Spitzer: The Crash of 2008-2009:
Lessons Learned or Lessons Ignored?

Robert Reich: Where Did the Stimulus Go?
Michael Moore: "Capitalism: A Love Story"

TR Reid: Can We Really Fix US
Health Care?

 Amy Goodman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing

Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture

Robert Fisk: Lies and Misreporting
in the Middle East

Robert Fisk: The Age of the Warrior

Charles Ferguson on the Inside Job

 
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Featured Doc - explore: Southwest Borderlands
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explore: Special Episode 19 - Southwest Borderlands

The American Southwest is a complex region where cultures transcend political borders. Join Charlie and the explore Team as they meet people pursuing a life in the United States while struggling to maintain their cultural heritage and longstanding traditions.

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explore: Southwest Borderlands

The American Southwest is a complex region where cultures transcend political borders. Join Charlie and the explore Team as they meet people pursuing a life in the United States while struggling to maintain their cultural heritage and longstanding traditions.

 


DOC 360: Darwinian Dilemmas in London

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 KenG, Link TV Contributor

It's what every documentary filmmaker prays for: as the cameras roll, an unexpected and stunning real-life event unfolds. Such is the case with Marc Isaacs and MEN OF THE CITY, a sensitive portrait of working men (from wildly disparate social strata) who toil in London's financial district. It is the fall of 2008 and while Isaacs is shooting a scene at a hedge fund office, it is announced that Lehman Brothers...

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