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
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.

TED Talks: Jamie Oliver & Derek Sivers
Category: News & Current Affairs
Sharing stories from his anti-obesity project in West Virginia, Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. And, with help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started.

TED Talks: Dave Eggers & Andy Hobsbawm
Category: News & Current Affairs
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the audience to personally, creatively engage with local public schools, while Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.

TED Talks: Sugata Mitra and Kiran Bedi
Category: News & Current Affairs
Education scientist Sugata Mitra examines why the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most, and Kiran Bedi talks about what it was like to manage one of the toughest prisons in India.

NHK World: NEWSLINE
Category: News & Current Affairs
NEWSLINE, NHK's top-rated flagship news program, delivers 30-minute daily reports on the current affairs of Japan and Asia. This program also presents global weather forecasts and business news.

In Focus: The IAEA - What the UN's Watchdog Can and Can't Do
Category: News & Current Affairs
The nuclear technology supervisory body, "International Atomic Energy Agency", abbreviated IAEA, is called simply "the Agency" by its own staff members. This documentary goes inside a world that normally lets very little information about itself reach the outside.

In Focus: Fukushima - Crisis at the Nuclear Plant
Category: News & Current Affairs
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Japan: Crisis in Communication Panel
Category: News & Current Affairs
Japanese media experts debate about the coverage of Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami in "Japan: Crisis in Communication", a panel held March 24, 2011, at American University School of Communication.

Spotlight: Iraq's Secret War Files
Category: Documentaries
Iraq's Secret War Files is the only television documentary to have advance access to the biggest Wikileaks release ever. This is what really happened during the Iraq War, and not what the United States PR machine of the time wanted us to believe.

Arianna Huffington - Third World America
Category: Documentaries
Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington dissects America's changing status due to the disappearance of the middle class. Will government over-spending, the wars in the Middle East, and wall street bailouts kill the American dream?

TED Talks: Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'
Category: News & Current Affairs
The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the U.S. State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate.

TED Talks: Itay Talgam and Ravin Agrawal
Category: News & Current Affairs
In this installment of TED Talks, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, and collector Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most exciting young contemporary artists.

TED Talks: Shai Agassi and William Kamkwamba
Category: News & Current Affairs
Forget about the hybrid auto, Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. And, William Kamkwamba shares the moving tale of how he, at age 14, in poverty and famine, built a windmill to power his family's home in Malawi.

TED Talks: Chimamanda Adichie - The danger of a single story
Category: News & Current Affairs
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.