In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded boat was approached by a large commercial vessel. Less than a week later, on 18 April 2015, a similar incident led to over eight hundred deaths after an overcrowded vessel collided with a cargo ship that had approached to rescue its passengers. Both incidents are in part the result of changing EU policies toward at-sea rescue, particularly the retreat of state rescue operations and a resulting onus on commercial vessels to fill the ‘rescue gap’.

"letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journey...

In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as pun...

Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the upcoming 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2016, nine...

How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experien...

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year...

The documentary begins when the fictionalized drama ends. Sara spent three years volunteering to sav...

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural R...

Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires h...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relativel...

Artin, a young Iranian bodybuilder, and Jahan, a Kurdish man who recently discovered his love for pa...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony w...

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and p...

I have been pretty satisfied with my life before I got on the bus. When I do in June 2011, my whole ...

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff fil...

The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS I...

220 years after its "birth", 40 years after its theft, 22 years after its reappearance and 18 years ...

Director Miriam Pucitta grew up as the child of Italian migrant workers in Switzerland in the 1960s ...