DOC-DEBUT
Category: Documentaries
A weekly series on Link TV, DOC-DEBUT highlights unique and groundbreaking international documentary films. Each week features the U.S. television premiere of a new foreign doc.

The Corporal's Diary
Category: Documentaries
Young corporal Jonathan Santos documented his 37 days in Iraq on video and in writing, never knowing that day 38 would be his last. Through Jonathan’s handwritten words and videotape, the film tells a personal and profound story.

A Nun's New Habit
Category: Documentaries
Follow the adventures of Sister Carmel Wauchope, a nun who kicked off her habit some 20 years ago, but who now has found a new habit at the forefront of the fight to help refugees incarcerated in detention centers.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: An Armenian Homecoming
Category: Documentaries
An Armenian family, driven out of Turkey during the genocide of 1915, returns to their family homeland, determined to find their old house, the church where their parents were married and to find out more about their family’s history.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

Abel Raises Cain
Category: Documentaries
This doc offers a glimpse into the bizarre and hilarious career of the infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel.

Bridge to Iran: Dream of Silk
Category: Documentaries
Young girls at an Iranian all-girls high school talk about their dreams for the future in this Bridge to Iran doc. This is a candid exploration of the young girls' aspirations and hopes, at a powerful and fleeting point in their lives.

Bridge to Iran: Zinat - One Special Day
Category: Documentaries
Zinat lives an ordinary Iranian woman's life, cooking and tending to her home. But this doesn't stop her from running against a man in the local municipality elections, with the support of family and friends.

GLOBAL LENS: Whisky
Category: World Cinema
Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Gladiator Women
Category: Documentaries
Marta El Alto confronts Jennifer Two Face in a wrestling ring in La Paz, Bolivia. But there's more at stake than the prize money. Marta represents the underclass - little wonder then that she gets the biggest cheers.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Blind Cricket
Category: Documentaries
Witness explores cricket for the visually impaired - a game that's giving many blind people in Nepal a new lease on life. Introduced to Nepal by an army captain, cricket fulfills a personal quest of his to show the blind aren't useless.

Special: Profits or Plunder?
Category: Documentaries
With the subprime loan market imploding, banks failing, and the government stepping in with bailouts, the days of easy credit are over. What will this mean for ordinary Americans? Danny Schechter joins us to present his film "In Debt We Trust".

B & B Guestbook 9/11
Category: Documentaries
This documentary, shot at a bed and breakfast four hours northwest of New York City, captures the reactions of guests to the September 11th terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

Retired Husband Syndrome
Category: Documentaries
This documentary gives a fascinating insight into the lives of three Japanese couples, in which the women are affected by "retired husband syndrome" which manifests after years of work-related detachment from their husbands end.

Souvenirs
Category: Documentaries
An unemployed filmmaker embarks on a trek to Europe with his father, who served in the Jewish Brigade during World War II. In the process, he learns more about his father than he ever imagined.