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Al Jazeera English - Witness: Odessa Detectives
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Odessa Detectives
Category: Documentaries
In this Witness film, meet detective Robert Papinyan and his business partner who take on cases that lift the lid on real life in Odessa, Ukraine, a Russian-speaking resort town famous for its thriving criminal underworld.
TED Talks: Sugata Mitra and Kiran Bedi
TED Talks: Sugata Mitra and Kiran Bedi
Category: News & Current Affairs
Education scientist Sugata Mitra examines why the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most, and Kiran Bedi talks about what it was like to manage one of the toughest prisons in India.
In Focus: The IAEA - What the UN's Watchdog Can and Can't Do
In Focus: The IAEA - What the UN's Watchdog Can and Can't Do
Category: News & Current Affairs
The nuclear technology supervisory body, "International Atomic Energy Agency", abbreviated IAEA, is called simply "the Agency" by its own staff members. This documentary goes inside a world that normally lets very little information about itself reach the outside.
Charles Ferguson on the Inside Job
Charles Ferguson on the Inside Job
Category: Documentaries
In this conversation with director Charles Ferguson, go deeper into his critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning expose of Wall Street, Inside Job.
Special: The Israel Lobby
Special: The Israel Lobby
Category: Documentaries
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so?
Special: The Billionaires' Tea Party
Special: The Billionaires' Tea Party
Category: Documentaries
In 2009, after Barack Obama came into power promising a new era of hope and change, out of nowhere emerged a citizens protest movement called the Tea Party, which threatened to derail everything. Was this uprising the epitome of grassroots democracy, or an example of "astroturfing"?
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Category: Documentaries
If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In this documentary Robert McChesney lays the blame squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media.
Special: The Warning
Special: The Warning
Category: Documentaries
Five authors stand up and speak truth to power, exposing shocking trends towards a police state, an accelerated corporate integration with the state, and the blatant subversion of the US Constitution, asking questions the mainstream media refuses to.
In Focus: Toppling Tyrants
In Focus: Toppling Tyrants
Category: News & Current Affairs
Demonstrations, revolutions and ousted dictators - the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have brought dramatic and lasting change to the region. The Arab World is overturning years of oppression. But how do they move forward from here?
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Sweet Beginnings
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Sweet Beginnings
Category: Documentaries
Most US ex-cons struggle with what to do once prison is behind them. One program has provided a way forward for many ex-inmates, helping them navigate their way out of the recidivism pattern that many find so tempting.
In Focus: Wikileaks Confidential - A Look at Who's Talking
In Focus: Wikileaks Confidential - A Look at Who's Talking
Category: News & Current Affairs
Wikileaks has got the world's movers & shakers quaking in their boots - as well as investigative journalists who see their jobs threatened. This report asks if we might not actually need a Wikileaks for our democracies to work in the digital age.
CINEMONDO: Ramchand Pakistani
CINEMONDO: Ramchand Pakistani
Category: World Cinema
Ramchand Pakistani is based on actual events about an accidental border crossing of a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father into India and the consequences of this unintended action on the lives of the boy, his father and mother.
In Focus: The Cloned Schnitzel - The Future of Food
In Focus: The Cloned Schnitzel - The Future of Food
Category: News & Current Affairs
In this episode of In Focus, learn about EU policies on animal cloning, and how regulations could change. Currently, selling meat from cloned animals is banned in Europe, but in other parts of the world, cloning is an every-day part of breeding.
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.
Eyes Wide Open
Eyes Wide Open
Category: Documentaries
After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power. Can they satisfy their peoples' hunger for change?