Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernobyl disaster. In children, doctors witnessed a massive increase of recurrent infections, baldness, as well as leukaemia and other cancers.

The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its ...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

In the depths of the Colombian jungle, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...

Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and ...

Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

The Salton Sea: An inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights locate...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

The remarkable true story of three animal species rescued from the brink of extinction: California’s...

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many mee...