explore: Specials
Category: Documentaries
The explore Team travels the world, helping courageous non-profits and profiling the selfless acts of others to inspire a revolution of giving. Learn more at www.explore.org.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Return to the Sea
Category: Documentaries
The draining of the Aral Sea was an ecological disaster of epic proportions. Thanks to man’s interference, the Aral - which once was the fourth largest sea on earth - became a desert, where rotting ships lay stranded.

In Focus: Burned Money - The Fallout of the Financial Crisis
Category: News & Current Affairs
Leading experts explain the background and inner workings of the world's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. What caused the chaos? Why was it allowed to happen, and how could it have been prevented?

Cooking in the Danger Zone
Category: Documentaries
In this fascinating BBC series, food writer Stefan Gates explores unusual food stories in some of the world's more dangerous places.

In Focus: 2008 Year End Review
Category: News & Current Affairs
Deutsche Welle's In Focus program looks back at 2008, highlighting critical events from the past year, from around the world.

Mechanical Love
Category: Documentaries
Can you love a robot? Mechanical Love is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans, portraying people who in different ways enjoy a close relationship with a robot.

CINEMONDO: World Cinema on Link TV
Category: World Cinema
CINEMONDO is Link TV's regular series of outstanding world cinema, hosted by Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch clips and interviews from featured CINEMONDO directors here.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

In Focus: Child Slavery
Category: News & Current Affairs
Child slavery is booming. Two reporters infiltrated the child slavery networks with a hidden camera, speaking with children, parents, and traffickers, and returned to Germany to confront corporations with the pictures.

GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Category: World Cinema
A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Blind Cricket
Category: Documentaries
Witness explores cricket for the visually impaired - a game that's giving many blind people in Nepal a new lease on life. Introduced to Nepal by an army captain, cricket fulfills a personal quest of his to show the blind aren't useless.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Romance Chinese-Style
Category: Documentaries
This episode of Al Jazeera English - Witness takes a whimsical look at how speed dating, online romance and love schools have replaced party loyalty in China. But in today's China, is there any time for love?

Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the World Affairs Council
Category: News & Current Affairs
Archbishop Desmond Tutu joins World Affairs Council of Northern California CEO & President, Jane Wales, in a spirited conversation, recorded in April of 2008. He speaks candidly about his role as a cleric and an activist, including his most recent role as chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who contribute their wisdom, leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems

Seoul Train
Category: Documentaries
With its riveting footage of a secretive "underground railroad," "Seoul Train" is a gripping documentary exposé into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China.

In Focus: China's Truth Warriors on the Web
Category: News & Current Affairs
This episode of In Focus profiles the work of the best investigative journalists in China - the bloggers who test the limits of Chinese press restrictions through daily reporting.