
Stories are powerful. They teach us lessons and shape our values. A good story can inspire people everywhere to think, to start conversations, and to take action. These films, from Link TV's ViewChange.org, bring the timeless power of storytelling to a modern and critical mission: fighting poverty, hunger, and disease around the world.
ViewChange.org is a ground-breaking multimedia website that's built to connect you to the world of global development. And now, we're bringing ViewChange and its stories to life on your television. Catch five-minute shorts, feature-length docs, and everything in between in this unique and inspiring series that proves storytelling really can change the world.
Unleashing InnovationSolving the world's most pressing problems often requires innovative thinking, unusual partnerships, and entrepreneurialism. From KIVA to Product (RED) to Tom's Shoes, watch how social innovation is making change around the world. Click here for more information, and watch this film online soon! | ||
Shelter from the StormIn the stifling slums of Nairobi and the remote villages of Mali, some youth find an oasis from their troubles. See what music, acrobatics, or a simple lightbulb can do for communities cornered by poverty. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
Where the Water Meets the SkyWritten by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins) and narrated by Academy Award®-winner Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky tells the inspiring story of a group of women in a remote region of Northern Zambia who achieve the unimaginable... Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
The Edge of JoyThe Edge of Joy is a documentary film that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
With My Own Two WheelsFor many Americans, the bicycle is a choice. An expensive toy. An eco-conscious mode of transportation. For countless others across the globe, it is much more. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
Hassan and the GraduatesHassan has a degree in business, but he doesn't commute to an office every day. His place of work is a farm 200 kilometers from Cairo. And it isn't even land in the fertile Nile Delta. Strangely, it seems, Hassan has chosen to farm in the desert. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
Africa's Last FamineThis World Food Day is marked by one of the worst famines in recent history. But, with the right planning and a few new ideas, it could be the last. Get the latest from the horn of Africa in this special report from Oxfam America and ViewChange.org. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
Challenging HungerChronic hunger affects one billion people around the world on a daily basis. How are aid groups, rural farmers, and other innovators working together to feed the planet? Find out in this special from Bread for the World and ViewChange.org. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
EntrepreneursWith courage and determination four young women in Zambia defy the odds and establish their own successful businesses. From a furniture store to a pre-school for vulnerable children, The Entrepreneurs prove that anything is possible. Click here for more information and to watch this film online! | ||
Lost Boy FoundWhen war broke out in southern Sudan, Valentino Deng and thousands of other children fled the fighting that killed many of their families. A lucky few, Valentino included, made it to the United States to carve out a new future for themselves. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
HIV Prevention: Looking Back & Moving ForwardTake a journey to find out what's working in HIV prevention -- and providing hope for the future -- in this new half-hour documentary produced by ViewChange in partnership with PSI (Population Services International). Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
Mozambique Poo TourIn a bid to raise awareness about the water and sanitation crisis facing the developing world, a group of musicians set off to Mozambique to discover how communities are tackling the issues of human waste. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
To Educate a GirlIn 2010 filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky traveled to Nepal and Uganda, two countries emerging from conflict and struggling with poverty, to find the answer to one question: What does it take to educate a girl? Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
Balancing ActNo matter how much you might want to fight it, you can't ignore tradition. But must tradition and progress always act as enemies? Find out, in this program from the ViewChange series. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
Outside the BoxProblem-solving in the developing world can require real flexibility...and often a little creativity. From bomb-sniffing rats to a multicultural skate park, watch two stories about fresh ideas for old problems. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
PeanutsJock Brandis is a man with a mission: to design and build a simple, hand-operated peanut sheller that will enable villagers around the world to more easily grow peanuts for food, which in turn will also help them cultivate cotton as a cash crop. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
One Good IdeaSolving the world's problems - poverty, hunger, disease - is far from a simple task. But sometimes one good idea is all it takes to change lives. Watch two inspiring films that prove just this. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
Feast and SacrificeDeya and his large extended family live in a tiny village in Senegal, on the ragged edges of globalization and immigration. Questions of work and ambition arise as the family prepares for Tabaski, the biggest holiday of the year. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
The Mothers IndexBeing a new mother is challenging enough – but what extra burdens do moms face in the poorest and most rural parts of the world? What's being done to give mothers and children the greatest chance to survive and thrive? Take a tour of the world's best and worst places to be a mother. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! | ||
Favela RisingHaunted by the murders of his family, Anderson Sá is a drug-trafficker turned social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s slums. Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela united. Click here for more info and to watch this film online! |
ViewChange: The Edge of Joy (Promo)
The Edge of Joy is a documentary film that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care. Inside a maternity ward, the film chronicles distressed labors, deaths, and miraculous survival. Outside, lack of blood supply transportation and family planning are examined as causes of the cycle that kills more than 36,000 Nigerian women each year.
Narrated by award winning journalist, Eliza Griswold, and featuring animation by Yoni Goodman, this portrait of pregnancy and childbirth shows the consequences of poor maternal health as it explores the nuances and complexities of bringing emerging health technologies to the developing world.