OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, cli...
Three film-makers travel to Iraq to film the ongoing crisis in which ISIS forces are trying to take ...

This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA com...

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photograp...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett ...
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...
Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the film explores the impact of teenage killings on fa...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned aroun...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...