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Al Jazeera English - Witness: Invented in China
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Invented in China
Category: Documentaries
Can the world's factory lose its reputation for piracy and gain one for innovation? In this episode of Witness, filmmaker Steve Nettleton looks at China's modern-day innovators and what keeps them inventing.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Ramallah TV
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Ramallah TV
Category: Documentaries
This episode of Witness looks at a small, public service TV channel based in Ramallah that gives locals the chance to share their stories. Find out what Palestinians watch on television while the world watches them.
ViewChange: Feast and Sacrifice
ViewChange: Feast and Sacrifice
Category: Documentaries
Deya and his large extended family live in a tiny village in Senegal, on the ragged edges of globalization and immigration. Questions of work and ambition arise as the family prepares for Tabaski, the biggest holiday of the year.
Czech Dream
Czech Dream
Category: Documentaries
Two young documentary filmmakers set out to explore the psychological powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for a super store that doesn't exist. What kind of controversy will this stir up?
ViewChange: The Mothers Index
ViewChange: The Mothers Index
Category: Documentaries
Being a new mother is challenging enough, but what extra burdens do moms face in poor, rural communities? Tour the world's best and worst places to be a mother, in a report from ViewChange.org and Save the Children.
Special: Amy Goodman - The Courage of Truth
Special: Amy Goodman - The Courage of Truth
Category: Documentaries
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks out on Egypt, Wikileaks and the critical need for transparency in wartime. Filmed April 10th, 2011, this powerful speech will leave you charged up, inspired and informed.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Migrant Dreams
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Migrant Dreams
Category: Documentaries
Migrant Dreams takes a look at the painful journey of migrant Bangladeshi workers in Singapore who are falsely promised better lives for themselves and their families, only to have their dreams turn to nightmares.
Charles Ferguson on the Inside Job
Charles Ferguson on the Inside Job
Category: Documentaries
In this conversation with director Charles Ferguson, go deeper into his critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning expose of Wall Street, Inside Job.
Special: Everything's Cool
Special: Everything's Cool
Category: Documentaries
Everything's Cool is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.
Preventive Warriors
Preventive Warriors
Category: Documentaries
Preventive Warriors is a documentary that takes an in-depth look at the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the National Security Strategy of 2002, by dissecting foreign policy debates around terrorism, rogue states, and WMDs.
Special: The Israel Lobby
Special: The Israel Lobby
Category: Documentaries
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so?
Special: The Best Government Money Can Buy?
Special: The Best Government Money Can Buy?
Category: Documentaries
The cost of election campaigns has spiraled out of control-- on average, US representatives spend more than 25% of their time fund-raising. This documentary asks who provides the money? What effect does it have? And is it in the public interest?
Special: The Billionaires' Tea Party
Special: The Billionaires' Tea Party
Category: Documentaries
In 2009, after Barack Obama came into power promising a new era of hope and change, out of nowhere emerged a citizens protest movement called the Tea Party, which threatened to derail everything. Was this uprising the epitome of grassroots democracy, or an example of "astroturfing"?
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Category: Documentaries
If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In this documentary Robert McChesney lays the blame squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media.
Special: The Warning
Special: The Warning
Category: Documentaries
Five authors stand up and speak truth to power, exposing shocking trends towards a police state, an accelerated corporate integration with the state, and the blatant subversion of the US Constitution, asking questions the mainstream media refuses to.