GLOBAL LENS: Daughter of Keltoum (Bent Keltoum)
Category: World Cinema
Rallia, a young Swiss woman, returns to her Algerian birthplace to seek out her roots. Unable to await mother's return, she heads out into the desert to find her.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the World Affairs Council
Category: News & Current Affairs
Archbishop Desmond Tutu joins World Affairs Council of Northern California CEO & President, Jane Wales, in a spirited conversation, recorded in April of 2008. He speaks candidly about his role as a cleric and an activist, including his most recent role as chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who contribute their wisdom, leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems

Beyond Fear
Category: Documentaries
With opening words by Richard Gere, this film documents the remarkable courage of a young Tibetan monk and nun who lead freedom demonstrations against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Eye on Tibet: Dreaming of Tibet
Category: Documentaries
This intimate documentary looks at the lives of three extraordinary Tibetan exiles who have survived in exile and are deeply involved in working for the future of their culture.

Meeting Mandela
Category: Documentaries
Hosted by Beyoncé Knowles, this special brings four young people to South Africa to talk to Nelson Mandela about some of the key issues affecting them and the world today: HIV/AIDS, Israeli/Palestine and Burma.

Harry Belafonte - Speaking Out For Justice
Category: Documentaries
In this rousing speech singer and activist Harry Belafonte calls on the next generation to draw on the passion of the civil rights movement to right contemporary wrongs, particularly when it comes to child incarceration.

In Focus: Powder Keg Pakistan
Category: News & Current Affairs
This investigative report provides an overview of the political situation in Pakistan, looking at the power of conflicting forces within the country - the military, the secular population and the strict Islamists.

International Dateline: The Yazidis
Category: News & Current Affairs
Once numbering in the millions, today there are estimated to be only about 100,000 Yazidis left, mainly living in small towns in northern Iraq. Dateline visits this group, victims of one of Iraq's deadliest bombings.

International Dateline: Darfur Crisis
Category: News & Current Affairs
Video Journalist David Brill travels Darfur, where a massive humanitarian crisis is now five years running with no signs of ease.

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.

Relocated Mountains
Category: Documentaries
In this touching documentary Kurdish refugee Sirwan Namo travels across the world from New Zealand to Iraq in order to reconnect with the family he was forced to leave in 1982.

Bridge to Iran: The Other Side of the Burka
Category: Documentaries
Women, on the Iranian island of Qeshm, speak openly from behind their burkas to share their problems about life and the role of women on the island.

Bridge to Iran: A World Between
Category: Documentaries
A naive young Iranian-American travels to Iran to discover his father's homeland, a journey that takes him around the country and into his family's past.

Chinua Achebe: The Importance of Stories
Category: Documentaries
A portrait of Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's greatest living authors.

Dark Science
Category: Documentaries
Swedish Scientist Eric Mjoberg came to remote Western Australia in the early 1900s seeking the missing link. He got more than he bargained for. This shocking film follows in Mjoberg's footsteps while reflecting on his dubious legacy.