At a popular bakery café, residents of New York's Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile — behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery & abusive managers who fire them for calling in sick.
Alf confronts Nicky and starts a series of raids in an attempt to find evidence against Nicky and Marco.
Helena must prove her worth to the men in the locker room, persuade the misogynistic head sponsor to fund new players and convince a traumatized but talented 17-year-old to get back in the game and sign for the club.
Jordan, 1967. A different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa are amongst this latest wave of refugees.
Bangkok's future seems paralyzed by political upheaval, but social instability hasn't undermined the locals' fierce will to better their city.
Beyond the clichés of the Eiffel Tower, there is another Paris — one of solidarity, wittiness, and repurposing public space.
Although Montreal could be described as half-Paris, half-Brooklyn, the most populated francophone city in North America has an identity all its own.
Carnivals have a delightful place in the American imagination, with childhood memories of family fun, fantasy, and summer love. But rising expenses and changes in U.S. labor patterns mean this national pastime is nearly extinct.
Autumn Peltier is passionate about granting communites acess to clean water. It's a cause she has been fighting for since she was at least 12 years old.
Ruth Miller is a member of the Dena’ina Athabascan Alaska Native tribe who believes prioritizing Indigenous women’s voices in discussions about climate justice is crucial.
Naelyn Pike, Chiricahua Apache, is fighting with paperwork and by speaking out to stop Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company, from extracting copper ore from the Apache sacred site in Arizona.
"The New West and the Politics of the Environment," a feature-length documentary for the public television environmental news magazine “Earth Focus,” makes the case for placing former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada at the center of a green new deal.
The U.S. announces new unilateral sanctions on Iran, a decision that's finding little support from its European allies.
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As the official U.S. death toll from COVID-19 approaches 200,000, "Democracy Now!" speaks with infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who says President Trump's refusal to promote face masks has made the pandemic much worse.
As coronavirus cases rise faster in India than anywhere else in the world, limited rural health facilities are under strain.
"Earth Focus" is an environmental news magazine that features investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment and how it affects people around the world.
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In this six-part series, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen explores the anatomy and vibrancy of the modern metropolis, highlighting pockets of life-sized goodness in cities around the world.
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