The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her to return to her home.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
The Andes Mountains travel the western side of South America. Unlike many other mountain ranges of t...
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing a...
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota comm...
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were...
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection whi...
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...