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ViewChange: Film Contest Collection
ViewChange: Film Contest Collection
Category: Documentaries
Stories are powerful. They teach us lessons, shape our values, and inspire us to act. ViewChange.org connects the power of story-telling to the mission of global development. Now, watch these incredible stories of progress on Link TV.
Megunica
Megunica
Category: Documentaries
The creative development of an artist is what makes him unique and different from the others. The idea of Megunica was to see how mural artist Blu's work would react to the inputs that five Latin American countries offer him.
A Dollar a Day: Bombay Jungle
A Dollar a Day: Bombay Jungle
Category: Documentaries
In Bombay Jungle, Kurshida Banu and her niece Saira are working to establish their identity so that they can be included in a relocation initiative to move out of the slums into new housing. The problem? One has papers, but the other cannot prove that she officially exists.
A Dollar a Day: The Price of Cotton
A Dollar a Day: The Price of Cotton
Category: Documentaries
Filmed in Mali and Texas, The Price of Cotton follows activist farmer Ibrahim Coulibali’s efforts to gain access to markets by turning many small voices into a loud, international demand for fair trade.
A Dollar a Day: The New Silver
A Dollar a Day: The New Silver
Category: Documentaries
The New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the silver mines, seeks to secure a future for her children by starting a business with micro-credit loans.
In Focus: Mama Maputo - Life for My Child
In Focus: Mama Maputo - Life for My Child
Category: News & Current Affairs
Célia and Helena live in Mozambique-- both are pregnant, and HIV positive. The most frequent path of infection among Africans is still from mother to child; these women are trying lower their risk by taking precautions and proper medications regularly.
ViewChange: Favela Rising
ViewChange: Favela Rising
Category: Documentaries
Haunted by the murders of his family, Anderson Sá is a drug-trafficker turned social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s slums. "Favela Rising" documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela united.
Special: The Power of Community
Special: The Power of Community
Category: Documentaries
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. The Power of Community tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time.
Japan - A Story of Love and Hate
Japan - A Story of Love and Hate
Category: Documentaries
Naoki had it all during Japan's bubble economy days. But come the crash of the early 90's, he lost everything, only to be saved by his new lower-class girlfriend, Yoshire. Watch their struggle to survive in the world's second richest economy.
4REAL: Kenya
4REAL: Kenya
Category: Documentaries
Hip hop star K'naan travels to Kenya's Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa. There, he connects with local hero, Salim Mohamed, who runs a medical clinic and a soccer program for over 4,000 kids.
4REAL: Vancouver
4REAL: Vancouver
Category: Documentaries
In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a place rife with homelessness and addiction, Eva Mendes and Sol visit health advocate Liz Evans and the Portland Hotel Society--North America's only safe-injection site.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Battle of Sea Point
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Battle of Sea Point
Category: Documentaries
This film looks at the dilemmas in "reclaiming the streets" of Cape Town's Sea Point and explores the dynamics between development, street crime and community safety as seen by a homeless man and a smooth-talking city councilor.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: China Orphans
Al Jazeera English - Witness: China Orphans
Category: Documentaries
82-year-old Chen Shangyi and his wife Wang make their living by scavenging in the remote Chinese town of Dingxi, yet they have taken in 42 children, since last count, who've been abandoned on the streets by their parents.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Manda's Prize
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Manda's Prize
Category: Documentaries
In Zambia, safari guide Manda Chisanga has just won a £5000 prize from an English travel magazine. Manda is using his winnings to introduce solar cooking ovens in his community to increase safety and reduce deforestation.
Special: Apology of an Economic Hitman
Special: Apology of an Economic Hitman
Category: Documentaries
John Perkins is an economic hitman, tasked with getting new foreign leaders to yield to US interests -- using debt as a weapon. His job consisted of government payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder, but now he's ready to come clean about the dirty foundation of the American empire.