Since 2013 more than 30,000 fighters from all over the world have joined the troops of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh) in Syria. Fighting against them as part of the YPO (Popular Protection Command) in Rojava—in the north of Syria and prevalently Kurdish—are some hundreds of Westerners. This is the story of three of them: a former American marine, an Italian anti capitalist activist, and a Swedish bodyguard.
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Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a...
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A joyful insight into the creative world of Barry and Joan Grantham, two British eccentrics who have...
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Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight acti...
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...
Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Ma...
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The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the...
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