In the Lord's Resistance Army, eight out of ten rebels are under 16 years of age. Some are as young as 6. Providing rare footage of guerrilla leader Joseph Kony, interviews with President Museveni and village and church leaders, and firsthand accounts of the child soldiers and their families, this program reveals the stark facts of life in northern Uganda's Acholi villages. There thousands of children-both male and female-have been forcibly conscripted...

The Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert are one of the world's last truly nomadic tribes. But their way of life is now under greater threat than ever before, from economic exploitation, from environmental catastrophe, from the scorn of their own government, from Islamist militants, and perhaps most of all from the relentless march of modernity. This revealing film documents the remaining fragments of Tuareg culture and examines a people's struggle...

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more...

"A former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives--for better or worse"--

"A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and...

Qatar's triumphant bid for the 2022 World Cup is under fire not just because of the FIFA corruption scandal. As Eric Campbell from Foreign Correspondent reports, the wealthy emirate stands accused of being a slave state through its harsh treatment of workers building its multi-billion dollar World Cup facilities.

Follow an Ethiopian immigrant as she tries to settle into life in Haifa, Israel. She yearns to learn Arabic dancing and teach her country's traditional dancing. Meet George Vasilly, Maccabi Haifa Football (soccer) Club's biggest fan!

"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--

"An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future. In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political discontent the likes of which had not been seen since the 1960s. The spark was the viral video of the horrific police murder of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis....

The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (or Pegida) feel threatened by what they consider Muslim attacks on the Christian culture of Germany. They believe that immigrants, and particularly Muslim immigrants, are a menace to German culture and national identity. In Dresden, Germany, where Pegida started, demonstrations occur every Monday. This documentary explains Pegida's beginnings, why it is growing so fast, and what its motives...