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ViewChange: To Educate a Girl
ViewChange: To Educate a Girl
Category: Documentaries
In 2010 filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky traveled to Nepal and Uganda, two countries emerging from conflict and struggling with poverty, to find the answer to one question: What does it take to educate a girl?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TED Talks: Stewart Brand & Mark Z. Jacobson, and Derek Sivers
TED Talks: Stewart Brand & Mark Z. Jacobson, and Derek Sivers
Category: News & Current Affairs
Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. And Derek Sivers says that there's a flip side to everything.
ViewChange: Smile Pinki
ViewChange: Smile Pinki
Category: Documentaries
Pinki is a five-year-old girl in rural India born desperately poor, and with a cleft lip. The simple surgery that can cure her is a distant dream until she learns of a hospital that provides the procedure to thousands like Pinki each year for free.
ViewChange: The Bicycle
ViewChange: The Bicycle
Category: Documentaries
Pax Chingawale pedals his bicycle over 20 km a day, visiting his neighbors from house to house. His travels take him to twenty villages, in Zomba District, southern Malawi, Africa. The Bicycle chronicles Pax's journeys as he battles AIDS at the grassroots.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Sari Stories
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Sari Stories
Category: Documentaries
Sari Stories follows a group of young women in rural Southern India, who have lived traditional lives as wives and mothers, and are now being trained as video journalists for an initiative to alleviate poverty.
In Focus: Hope in the Rubble - Helping Amputees in Haiti
In Focus: Hope in the Rubble - Helping Amputees in Haiti
Category: News & Current Affairs
This episode of In Focus takes an in-depth look at the approximately 4000 amputees in Haiti, including 7-year old Choute, who was buried under the rubble of a collapsed building in the 2010 Haiti earthquake and lost his leg.
A Dollar a Day: Made in China
A Dollar a Day: Made in China
Category: Documentaries
"Made in China" profiles two different people, one from China, the other from Minnesota, struggling with the same problem: finding work. Though they live on opposite sides of the world, the plight of Li Jieli, and Wayne Patterson are intimately connected.
A Dollar a Day: The Tunnel and Other Lies
A Dollar a Day: The Tunnel and Other Lies
Category: Documentaries
The Tunnel and Other Lies was filmed in Bosnia and tells the story of Bjelonja and Radzo Seferovic who each face tremendous odds against a government that has respectively taken their homes and jobs.