TED Talks: Martin Seligman & Dean Ornish
Category: News & Current Affairs
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. While Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits will save lives.

Spotlight: Blood in the Mobile
Category: Documentaries
During the last 15 years the civil war in the DR Congo has killed over 5 million people and 300,000 women have been raped. Blood in the Mobile reveals the connection between our cell phones and the conflict in the Congo.

Spotlight: Stolen Brides
Category: Documentaries
This documentary explores the unsettling and widespread phenomenon of bride snatching in Chechnya, revealing the tense and painful negotiations that take place to determine the fate of a young kidnapped bride-to-be.

Spotlight: Secrets of Scientology
Category: Documentaries
When reporter John Sweeney investigated the Church of Scientology three years ago, he was spied on and condemned as a bigot by the church's leaders. Now, in his return to the church, a whistleblower is helping him reveal the dark secrets of Scientology.

In Focus: The Mexican Drug Lords' Reign of Terror - Standing up to the Cartels
Category: News & Current Affairs
The drug war has been terrorizing Mexico for more than four years now. The Mexican government's efforts to break the increasing power of drug lords have been to no avail, and many police officers also work for the higher-paying cartels.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: An Italian Orchestra
Category: Documentaries
Members of Rome's Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio use their cross-cultural musicianship to combat the negative stereotypes of immigrants and the increasing xenophobia in Italy.

TED Talks: Thomas Barnett & Eric Berlow
Category: News & Current Affairs
International security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US military, and ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems; he knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution.

Syrian School: Changing Schools
Category: Documentaries
It's the start of the new school year, which this year coincides with the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. Passionate head teacher Amal Hassan has been in charge of Zaki Al-Arsuzi Girls' Secondary School for over a decade. She expects a lot of her girls and is surprised that so many are now wearing the hijab.

Syrian School: Rap Refugees
Category: Documentaries
At first sight Yarmouk looks like a normal suburb of Damascus. But it's a refugee camp, home to many second and third generation Palestinian refugees, and two girls who want to publicize the Palestinian cause through rap.

Syrian School: Being Inspired
Category: Documentaries
As a teenage girl it isn't easy to find ways to express yourself in Syria, but there’s one outlet that's releasing a wave of emotion in Zaki Al-Arsuzi School - the Poetry Society.

Syrian School: Syria's Got Talent
Category: Documentaries
A look at Syria's nationwide search to find Syria’s brightest and best primary school students. It's a way for the ruling party to encourage the top students, see who could be a good representative of their country and ensure that the party's message is reinforced in top students.

Syrian School: Marked for Life
Category: Documentaries
The whole city seems in a state of panic over the impending arrival of this year's Baccalaureate Examination, from teachers to parents and pupils and the fifth and final episode follows the students as they prepare.

ViewChange: To Educate a Girl
Category: Documentaries
In 2010 filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky traveled to Nepal and Uganda, two countries emerging from conflict and struggling with poverty, to find the answer to one question: What does it take to educate a girl?

Standing Up, Moving Forward: Bringing Photography to Life
Category: Documentaries
The first episode of Standing Up, Moving Forward features the story of Ms. Mayumi Sasaki, a Japanese photographer who lost her parents in the March 11th earthquake on Japan's east coast.

Standing Up, Moving Forward: Spring 2011, Minami-Kesennuma Elementary
Category: Documentaries
In episode 2 of Standing Up, Moving Forward, the month of March -- Japan's season of graduation ceremonies -- has changed drastically for school children, after the devastating earthquake of March 11.