A Fall From Freedom
Category: Documentaries
A dramatic account of the lives of killer whales in the wild, and how they have been captured for marine parks.

The New Heroes: The Power of Knowledge
Category: Documentaries
The New Heroes, hosted by Robert Redford, tells the dramatic stories of social entrepreneurs who are working to solve social problems around the world. This episode visits Thailand, Egypt and India.

Drowning by Bullets
Category: Documentaries
A thorough exposé of the 1961 killing of some 200 peaceful Algerian protesters by police in Paris during the Algerian war. Eyewitness accounts from police, journalists, and protesters recreate the event.

Closed Doors
Category: World Cinema
Mohamad is a highly impressionable young man who embraces fundamentalist ideas as a way of dealing with the confusion of adolescence and sexual awakening.

Cairo as Seen by Chahine
Category: Documentaries
Famed Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine uses his unique sense of artistic digression to transform this portrait of a city into a self-portrait of a filmmaker.

Memory of Raï
Category: World Music
A loving overview of the history of North African Raï music, and how political, religious and economic forces combined to make it what it is today.

Sufi Soul - The Mystic Music of Islam
Category: Documentaries
This film explores how Sufism -- the mystical dimension of Islam that preaches peace and tolerance -- encourages music as a way of deepening one's relationship with God.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals
In the year 2000, the UN called a Millennium Summit, and government leaders established 8 attainable development goals to combat the challenges that human kind faces today. Here we look at poverty, gender equality and environmental sustainability.

Beauty Will Save the World
Category: Documentaries
This fascinating documentary about Libya's first ever beauty competition captures the international publicity free-for-all involving the press, promoters, and Gaddafi.

BBC's Witness
Category: Documentaries
Short films in which first-hand witnesses to important events tell their stories.

Algeria in a Smile: Souad Massi
Category: World Music
A profile of Souad Massi, a Paris-based Algerian singer-songwriter whose music is a winning combination of western song and Arabic melisma.

Algeria Daily
Category: Documentaries
Three weeks in the lives of independent journalists in Algeria, who offer a very personal and visceral view of Algerian society.

Agenda 21
Category: News & Current Affairs
This 13-part series investigates the environmental issues and challenges facing our planet.

2002 Reebok Human Rights Awards
Category: News & Current Affairs
Coverage of the 2002 Reebok Human Rights Awards.

World AIDS Day
Category: News & Current Affairs
HIV/AIDS affects us all. There are more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS all over the world. More than 11 million of those are aged between 15 and 24. Most don't know that they are carrying the virus.