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Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Maestro's Daughters
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Maestro's Daughters
Category: Documentaries
In this documentary from the Al Jazeera English Witness series, the blind daughters of a famous Bangladeshi musician try to carry on their father's legacy.
NHK Presents: March 11 Disaster - Reviving Manufacturing
NHK Presents: March 11 Disaster - Reviving Manufacturing
Category: Documentaries
The March 11th disaster in Japan revealed an unanticipated Achilles' heel of Japanese manufacturing. How can manufacturing in the Tohoku region of Japan, a nation based on its technology, recover?
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Stella Rotaru - Fighting Global Sex Trade
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Stella Rotaru - Fighting Global Sex Trade
Category: Documentaries
In this documentary from the Al Jazeera English Witness series, find out how and why women are forced into being trafficked and how to help them.
Spotlight: Stolen Brides
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.
ViewChange: To Educate a Girl
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
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
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.
Standing Up, Moving Forward: The Nonfiction - A Day to Remember
Standing Up, Moving Forward: The Nonfiction - A Day to Remember
Category: Documentaries
The third episode of Standing Up, Moving Forward focuses on a family living in the fishing town of Ishinomaki, Japan, who experienced great loss in the March 11th Japan earthquake and tsunami.
LinkAsia
LinkAsia
Category: News & Current Affairs
Hosted by Yul Kwon, this weekly half-hour program takes viewers into media about Asia -- from Asia -- offering unfiltered insight into one of the most diverse, fast-paced regions of the globe, combining everything from Asia's top television networks, to blog and social media trends.
ViewChange: Outside the Box
ViewChange: Outside the Box
Category: Documentaries
Problem-solving in the developing world can require real flexibility...and often a little creativity. From bomb-sniffing rats to a multicultural skate park, watch two stories about fresh ideas for old problems.
Moving the Mountain
Moving the Mountain
Category: Documentaries
Through stock footage, re-enactments, and interviews with witnesses, Moving the Mountain tells the story of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China that culminated in a deadly government crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Earth Focus: Chernobyl - The Real Story
Earth Focus: Chernobyl - The Real Story
Category: News & Current Affairs
International agencies, the nuclear industry and governments ignore important scientific data about the consequences of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Authors of a new book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment say that almost a million people died as a result of Chernonbyl -- not 4,000 as officially claimed. Was it a screw up or a cover up?
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Drugged to Death
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Drugged to Death
Category: Documentaries
In this documentary from the Al Jazeera English Witness series, get a look at why India's vulture population is declining at alarming rates.
In Focus: The Artist Ai Weiwei under Arrest
In Focus: The Artist Ai Weiwei under Arrest
Category: News & Current Affairs
On April 3rd, 2011, the internationally known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who openly criticized the Chinese government, was arrested. Does this portend a renewed crackdown in China? How should the international community respond?
In Focus: 25 Years After Chernobyl - From Disaster Site to Tourist Destination
In Focus: 25 Years After Chernobyl - From Disaster Site to Tourist Destination
Category: News & Current Affairs
25 years after explosions at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant left large areas of Ukraine and Russia uninhabitable for decades, a group of surviving emergency workers revisit the exclusion zone and talk to friends and acquaintances from that time.