A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent to these yards. And every year, thousands of people come to these yards in search of jobs. Risking their lives to save themselves from hunger, they breathe in asbestos dust and toxic waste. The ship has to die and man has to help it die, as if man and vessel were united in common bondage. The Last Rites bears testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first nat...
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota comm...
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.
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration si...
Upon his release from prison, an ex-convict returns to his beloved city of Genoa, and to his lover.
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs o...
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...