In the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, tradition is king. Polo's still played with a freshly killed goat and the men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.

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Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...

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One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. T...

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Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...

The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...

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