Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants.
In this speech, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses the most urgent issues of our times, insisting that unless we begin to stand fast around moral imperatives, we...
This episode of Al Jazeera English's Witness is an uplifting portrait of how music can be a powerful instrument of transcending boundaries in a country only fifteen years removed from...
Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington dissects America's changing status due to the disappearance of the middle class. Will government over-spending, the wars in the Middle East,...
In this episode of Arab Labor, the Alian family members are invited to a concert where the neighbor's son will perform. Amjad is filled with envy because his daughter Maya...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: July 26, 2010) Over 90,000 classified U.S. military and intelligence documents have been leaked to the public by the website WikiLeaks.org. Some revelations include that...
This Link TV special features the world?s first "dramatic-documentary-musical", exploring America's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in this nominally democratic republic.
In this episode, caste riots have been sweeping the city. Mrs. Kapur doesn't want her privileged pupils at Bhojwani Academy to live in a "caste bubble", so she tackles the...
This special episode of Witness documents the life and routines at two schools in the West Bank, where teachers go unpaid, classrooms are overcrowded, and the surrounding violence often results...
This British doc probes the attitudes of a town's white residents toward their immigrant neighbors, exploring the shockingly unexamined (and often comic) prejudices about the newcomers' dress, religion, and strange...
Classical music, originally introduced by Jesuit priests, is regaining popularity in today's Bolivia. Witness goes to meet those making a very different kind of "Jungle Music", a way out of...
Director Uri Rosenwaks discusses the genesis of the project documented in his film, as well as the cultural challenges faced by Bedouins living in Israel.
