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DOC-DEBUT: The Toughest Place to Be... A Paramedic (Part 1)
DOC-DEBUT: The Toughest Place to Be... A Paramedic (Part 1)
Category: Documentaries
In this three-part documentary series, ordinary workers find out what it's like to do their job under some of the toughest conditions on the planet.
DOC-DEBUT: The Toughest Place to Be... A Midwife (Part 3)
DOC-DEBUT: The Toughest Place to Be... A Midwife (Part 3)
Category: Documentaries
Midwife Suzanne Saunders-Blundell abandons her high-tech maternity unit in Britain to work in the capital of Liberia -- the third poorest country on Earth, where one in 12 women dies in childbirth.
The Health Show
The Health Show
Category: Documentaries
Each week, The Health Show brings you the most important health stories from around the world, including extraordinary inventions in the fight against HIV, biker nurses, and breakthroughs in early tuberculosis diagnosis.
In Focus: Help From Above - Doctors Helping Children in Need
In Focus: Help From Above - Doctors Helping Children in Need
Category: News & Current Affairs
Fokko Doyen is a freight pilot. Sven Sievens is a doctor. Both are determined to help Africa. Funded by German donations, they've opened a new medical clinic in the slums of Nairobi. A camera crew accompanies these volunteers at work.
TED Talks: Abraham Verghese - A Doctor’s Touch
TED Talks: Abraham Verghese - A Doctor’s Touch
Category: News & Current Affairs
Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.
In Focus: Phasing Out Nuclear Power: Fukushima and the Consequences
In Focus: Phasing Out Nuclear Power: Fukushima and the Consequences
Category: News & Current Affairs
The great nuclear debate seems destined for the history books. Or is it? Does Germany really have no further involvement in nuclear power? This documentary report takes a critical look at the nuclear industry where, for the time being, it’s business as usual.
In Focus: Famine in the Horn of Africa
In Focus: Famine in the Horn of Africa
Category: News & Current Affairs
The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa for six decades has driven millions of people from their homes in search of food and water. These are the stories and faces behind the headlines.
Earth Focus: Nuclear Power - Risks and Consequences
Earth Focus: Nuclear Power - Risks and Consequences
Category: News & Current Affairs
This original Earth Focus investigative report, looks at the untold stories behind three of the world's largest nuclear disasters: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
Divine Pig
Divine Pig
Category: Documentaries
Dorus is a pig living in the backyard of a free-range butcher in the Netherlands. Dorus has become a local celebrity, but does the butcher's love for his pig run deeper than his love of pork?
Special: Full Signal
Special: Full Signal
Category: Documentaries
Full Signal talks to scientists around the world who are researching the health effects related to cellular technology. It examines the contradiction between health and finance, one of the many ironies of the fight to regulate antenna placement.
Special: The World According to Monsanto
Special: The World According to Monsanto
Category: Documentaries
Monsanto is responsible for 90% of all the genetically-engineered crops on the planet, and thus arguably poses a greater environmental threat to mankind than any other single company. Watch The World According to Monsanto for an investigation of the company's checkered history.
TED Talks: Marcel Dicke and Jonathan Drori
TED Talks: Marcel Dicke and Jonathan Drori
Category: News & Current Affairs
In this installment of TED Talks, Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet, while Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Lost and Found
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Lost and Found
Category: Documentaries
The number of homeless people in the US has always been a stunning statistic that seems to run counter to the promise of the American Dream, and, compounded by the deep recession, is only getting worse.
ViewChange:  HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward
ViewChange: HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward
Category: Documentaries
Take a journey to find out what's working in HIV prevention -- and providing hope for the future -- in this new half-hour documentary produced by ViewChange in partnership with PSI (Population Services International).
In Focus: Two German Doctors In Haiti - Part 2
In Focus: Two German Doctors In Haiti - Part 2
Category: News & Current Affairs
(Part 2) Gynecologist Michael Will and his wife Esther, who is a nurse, had no idea what to expect when they decided to move from Germany to the Caribbean island to help the people of Haiti. Since then they've been working in a small hospital in the particularly poor north of the country. They've also been supporting a Dutch doctor and her husband in the fight against cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS and malnutrition.