A griot (gree-oh) is the keeper of a tribe's genealogy through poetic songs in the West African oral tradition. In the first episode of On the Road,...

Spoken-word poet Bob Holman is on a search to record a Newari poet for the endangered languages cento, which will be presented at the United Nations in New York City...

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...

No matter how much you might want to fight it, you just can't ignore tradition. But must tradition and progress always act as mortal enemies? Find out, in this program...

In Rajasthan, India, the moustache is a symbol of dignity, caste status, and the lion-like fighter spirit of Rajput soldiers. Despite modernization, tradition lives on in older generations who sport...

33-year-old Londoner Rajesh Thind is under pressure from his Punjab-born parents to find a bride. He decides to get help from the UK?s longest-established marriage bureau - and confronts his...

Despite the conflicts Maasai tribe traditions pose in the modern world, one girl is breaking free from her community's norms and attitudes with the help of a tribal elder and...

In this episode, Native American Tish Keahna returns to her childhood reservation to see the impact of a language immersion school and to restore the Arapaho language.

In this special presentation, Earth Focus travels to London to interview British journalist and author Fred Pearce who has reported on environmental issues in more than 60 countries. He...

This episode portrays the large areas of Mongolia being mined for gold by independent or "ninja" miners and the effects this has on traditional herders and the environment.

-Buy the album (Tibet/USA) Techung is a Tibetan singer/songwriter/performer living in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He grew up in the exiled Tibetan community of Dharamsala, India,...

-Download on iTunes (USA) Here is one of the strangest mashups we have ever come across, and that's saying a lot! Uncle Earl is an all-female Old...

In this heart-warming and humorous film, documentary filmmaker Cecilia Hue visits the Spanish town of Cabezuela, the land where her mother was born.

Winner - Animation/Music Directed by Mediha Sandhu This is funny/immature look on a young girls view of a traditional arranged marriage. It's something most teens growing up here go through. I state...