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Al Jazeera English - Witness: Give Me Shelter
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Give Me Shelter
Category: Documentaries
This Witness episode offers a glimpse into the world of home-based bomb shelters. As instability and the threat of terrorism looms, many suburban Americans are taking extreme, and often secretive, measures to stay safe.
Special: Hijacking Catastrophe
Special: Hijacking Catastrophe
Category: Documentaries
This film contends that a group of Bush administration insiders used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to transform American foreign policy and shows how the plan was sold to the American public.
Special: Apology of an Economic Hitman
Special: Apology of an Economic Hitman
Category: Documentaries
John Perkins is an economic hitman, tasked with getting new foreign leaders to yield to US interests -- using debt as a weapon. His job consisted of government payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder, but now he's ready to come clean about the dirty foundation of the American empire.
Speaking of Baghdad
Speaking of Baghdad
Category: Documentaries
Taken from correspondences going back to 2002, Speaking of Baghdad shows a top cast performing the stories of Iraqi writers in Baghdad. We get a chance to hear the words of Iraq's own writers telling of Baghdad during the war.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Lost Children of Chechnya
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Lost Children of Chechnya
Category: Documentaries
After 12 years of war, Chechnya is one of the most heavily land-mined countries on earth. Thousands of children have died or lost their limbs from the mines, and one Chechen surgeon has put his life at risk to help them.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Safe Haven
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Safe Haven
Category: Documentaries
Despite peacekeeping efforts by the UN during the war in eastern Bosnia, 8,000 Bosnians were massacred in July of 1995. Two survivors return to Srebrenica to honor and properly bury the dead, many still lying in mass graves.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Path of Most Resistance
Al Jazeera English - Witness: The Path of Most Resistance
Category: Documentaries
To be legally discharged from the military can be the most difficult process a service member goes through. Hear the stories of two soldiers who, after enlisting, had a change of heart and now have a new battle to fight.
Future Express: South Africa - Climb Higher Brother
Future Express: South Africa - Climb Higher Brother
Category: Documentaries
The premiere episode of "The Future Express" takes us on a breathtaking tour through South Africa to explore the hearts and minds of locals in a post-Apartheid world.
Future Express: Chile - We Were So Much in Love
Future Express: Chile - We Were So Much in Love
Category: Documentaries
In 1981 Future Express director Rob Hof traveled to Chile but was imprisoned by the secret service and thrown out of the country. Now hear stories from train passengers & Hof's Chilean friends about the time of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Future Express: Bosnia - Awakening in a New Dream
Future Express: Bosnia - Awakening in a New Dream
Category: Documentaries
In this episode the Future Express listens to the new dreams of travelers after the long nightmare of war.
Future Express: Indonesia - Silent Anger
Future Express: Indonesia - Silent Anger
Category: Documentaries
In this episode of the Future Express, travel across Indonesia - the biggest Muslim country in the world - and listen to the stories of how Christians and Muslims live together, amongst widespread violence by radical Islamic groups.
Future Express: Albania - We Are the Future
Future Express: Albania - We Are the Future
Category: Documentaries
Travel with the Future Express across Albania and hear stories from the times of Dictator Hoxha - friend of Joseph Stalin - when the country was completely isolated from the world. Now, half the population is younger than 20.
Future Express: Serbia and Kosovo - Lost and Reborn
Future Express: Serbia and Kosovo - Lost and Reborn
Category: Documentaries
Journey with the Future Express from the former Yugoslavian capital Belgrade, to Kosovo, the youngest nation in Europe. Hear the stories of Eastern European train travelers, with varying perspectives on post-war life.
Future Express: Algeria - The Country of Single Fares
Future Express: Algeria - The Country of Single Fares
Category: Documentaries
Between 1991 and 2004 over 100,000 people were killed in a conflict between local forces and Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria. Hear the stories of travelers used to booking single fares in fear of bomb attacks on their train.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Proof of Life
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Proof of Life
Category: Documentaries
Over 4,000 hostages are believed to be in the hands of guerrilla groups in the jungles of Colombia. The hopes of these hostages and their families are kept alive thanks to a radio show called the "Voices of the Kidnapped".