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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.
ViewChange: Balancing Act
ViewChange: Balancing Act
Category: Documentaries
No matter how much you might want to fight it, you can't ignore tradition. But must tradition and progress always act as enemies? Find out, in this program from the ViewChange series.
Picking Up America
Picking Up America
Category: Documentaries
Picking Up America follows four idealist young people who hope to promote a transition to a zero-waste America by traveling across the country picking up roadside trash.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Darfur Plays
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Darfur Plays
Category: Documentaries
In this documentary from the Al Jazeera English Witness series, art makes a difference in Darfur, where a troupe of self-taught young actors take theater into the streets and refugee camps.
Moving the Mountain Discussion
Moving the Mountain Discussion
Category: Documentaries
A panel discussion featuring "Moving the Mountain" director Michael Apted, producer Trudie Styler, and Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, held to raise awareness about prisoner of conscience and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Free Theater of Belarus
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Free Theater of Belarus
Category: Documentaries
Despite oppressive conditions, Belarus is home to an underground theatre group of dedicated actors who use their creative force to speak out for democracy.
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.
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.
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
Category: Documentaries
A poignant documentary exposing the government's suppression of the health hazards of low-level radiation after nuclear tests in the 50s - even more relevant since the release of radiation in Japan, and reports about a potential government cover-up of the effects of Chernobyl.
ViewChange: Peanuts
ViewChange: Peanuts
Category: Documentaries
Jock Brandis is a man with a mission: to design and build a simple, hand-operated peanut sheller that will enable villagers around the world to more easily grow peanuts for food, which in turn will also help them cultivate cotton as a cash crop.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Odessa Detectives
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Odessa Detectives
Category: Documentaries
In this Witness film, meet detective Robert Papinyan and his business partner who take on cases that lift the lid on real life in Odessa, Ukraine, a Russian-speaking resort town famous for its thriving criminal underworld.
ViewChange: One Good Idea
ViewChange: One Good Idea
Category: Documentaries
Solving the world's problems - poverty, hunger, disease - is far from a simple task. But sometimes one good idea is all it takes to change lives. Watch two inspiring films that prove just this.