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Al Jazeera English - Witness: Stolen Children
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Stolen Children
Category: Documentaries
Taken from their impoverished families on a false promise of a better life, Sandy and Ed now live as two of Haiti's 330,000 "restavecs", or stolen children, in the slums of Port-au-Prince. Witness follows their journey home.
Future Express: Turkey - Rejected Love
Future Express: Turkey - Rejected Love
Category: Documentaries
In Rejected Love, the Future Express listens to the stories of train travelers in Turkey, and learns about the Turkish desire for acceptance from Europe. The relationship is likened to an unrequited love story.
In Focus: Gas Matters - Politicians, Pipelines and Profits
In Focus: Gas Matters - Politicians, Pipelines and Profits
Category: News & Current Affairs
The Nord Stream Pipeline, carrying Siberian natural gas from Russia to Germany, is expected to be complete by 2011. This project rivals that of the Nabucco Pipeline, another massive industrial endeavor, which bypasses Russia altogether. Which will be more profitable?
ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery
ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery
Category: Documentaries
ColorLines follows communities making ends meet in the Great Recession. The program narrates the moving story of Tisha, mother of three in Connecticut, facing a social safety net shredded further by the crisis.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Forty Acres and a Dream
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Forty Acres and a Dream
Category: Documentaries
Black farmers are losing their land three times faster than white farmers; in the next ten years there could be virtually no black owned farms left. Photographer John Ficara uses his camera to preserve this vanishing part of American history.
GLOBAL LENS: The Photograph
GLOBAL LENS: The Photograph
Category: World Cinema
In this poignant drama Sita, a spirited young woman, works to support her family as a singer and prostitute in a local brothel. When an elderly photographer agrees to rent her a room, witness the unlikely bond that forms between them.
Survivor's Guide to Work - The Migrant's Story
Survivor's Guide to Work - The Migrant's Story
Category: Documentaries
The first episode of Survivor's Guide To Work, looks at what the fall out from the crisis means for the millions of economic migrants who have left the countries of their birth in search of a better life.
Survivor's Guide to Work - Weathering the Storm
Survivor's Guide to Work - Weathering the Storm
Category: Documentaries
The second episode of Survivor's Guide to Work examines what Argentina did to pull itself out of the devastating economic crisis of 2001 and whether the measures put in place are protecting Argentinians from the current recession.
Survivor's Guide to Work - Times of Crisis: The Philippines Fight Back
Survivor's Guide to Work - Times of Crisis: The Philippines Fight Back
Category: Documentaries
This final episode of the Survivor's Guide to Work travels to the Philippines to see if measures introduced after the Asian financial crash in the 90s are helping during the current global recession.
Greg Palast Investigates
Greg Palast Investigates
Category: Documentaries
In Palast Investigates take a hard look at Vulture Funds, and the speculators who swoop down to make a profit on Third World debt relief. Then, journey into the Amazon to meet the Cafan Indians battling big oil companies to reclaim their land.
In Focus: Measures for Money Management
In Focus: Measures for Money Management
Category: News & Current Affairs
In this episode of In Focus, uncover the feeding frenzy of new speculation among traders, despite the world's investment banks and businesspeople dropping like flies. Unconventional solutions - like using the Islamic financial system as a model - are now being considered.
Special: The Corporation
Special: The Corporation
Category: Documentaries
Corporations control almost every aspect of our lives - so why do they often seem immune to legal controls? Journalist Greg Palast joins Link TV to present "The Corporation," and discuss the issues.
In Focus: Babies for Sale - The Trade in Children
In Focus: Babies for Sale - The Trade in Children
Category: News & Current Affairs
On the one side there's the unfulfilled desire for children, on the other side inescapable poverty. It's hard to imagine children becoming commodities, but in the little Greek port of Volos that is exactly what they are.
Future Express: India - Path to My Dreams
Future Express: India - Path to My Dreams
Category: Documentaries
India is known to be a country of poverty and exotic temples. But the country has made a great leap forward in the last twenty years. In this episode of the Future Express, youngsters describe their aspirations -- and the sky is the limit.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Child Miners 2
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Child Miners 2
Category: Documentaries
Witness returns to the Llallagua tin mine in Bolivia where child miners like Jorge and Alex are helping to support their families with meager pay for dangerous back-breaking work. Can promised reform improve their future?