In the wake of the Paris attacks, a look at the community everyone is afraid of but we rarely hear from ... young Muslims in a suburb of Brussels. As violence continues to spread throughout the Middle East, a growing number of young Muslims from all over Europe are leaving their home towns to fight for ISIS.
An intimate journey into an organization where veterans once shattered by war make a difference and care for their fellow veterans who find themselves returned, yet lost, damaged and homeless.
A former gang member, now an interventionist and a social worker meet in their South Central community and fall in love. They make the decision not to leave but to stay, to fight to make it a better place. But when old criminal charges catch up with Max, Daisy needs to forge a new path without him and finds her family torn apart.
Heroin is no longer an inner-city plague. It is now hitting middle America—and hitting it hard. The new face of the heroin addict -- young, suburban, white. Soledad O’Brien follows the lives of several young heroin addicts from the Cincinnati suburbs as they battle their addiction.
In the wake of Pope Francis’s historical excommunication of all Mafiosi in June 2014, historian and Mafia expert John Dickie investigates the unholy ties that have bound the Catholic Church to organized crime. He will track down the priests who have cozied up with mobsters and meet others who are risking their lives for standing up against them.
Through these American families, we grasp that childhood and high school sports are still the bridge to attaining the American Dream…. for the child as well as the parent.
10 years after the catastrophic events surrounding hurricane Katrina, the film looks back at how the Big Easy has changed since then. It is an evocative story of survival inspired by the uplifting and connective power of music.
Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000 year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition from a Chinese mining company.
Soledad O’Brien tracks an American journey unlike any other – never-before-told stories of some of America’s bravest warriors, Medal of Honor winners, whose proper acknowledgement took decades to be claimed.
Omar Khadr is a 26 year old Canadian who has been at the center of controversy since he was fifteen as the youngest person in captivity at Guantanamo. Here Omar speaks for the first time since returning home.
A 6-part documentary series for AJAM that puts aside economic debates and follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on $8, $10 or $15 an hour. The series turns an intimate lens on this group of 21st century American dreamers as they fight against all odds to thrive when it takes everything they have to simply survive.
Soledad O’Brien visits The John Paul Taylor Center in New Mexico, a Juvenile detention facility once known as a violent warehouse for the states toughest juvenile offenders. Today, an experiment is taking place. Can therapy, counseling and education prove to be more effective than punishment? An intimate portrait of the U.S.'s forgotten youth.
Teen bootcamps: a booming industry worth over $2 billion, catering primarily to worried parents. While there are well run and regulated camps, shocking reports of cruelty, neglect, abuse and deaths have emerged. This documentary looks at why growing numbers of parents continue to send their children to camps and whether they work.
A photographer explores the human relationship with modern cities, using the magic of time-lapse to capture what architecture reveals about our past, present and future.
Eleanor Squillari went to work every day believing she was working for a great company, a great man. For 25 years she sat fifteen feet away from Bernard L. Madoff as his personal secretary. She never imagined he was perpetrating the largest financial crime in history. On December 11, 2008, her life as she knew it was destroyed...until she decided to do something about it.
A glamorous 81-year-old, Doris Payne is as unapologetic today about the $2 million in jewels she's stole over the 60-year career as she was the day she stole her first carat. With Doris now on trial for the theft of a department store diamond ring, we probe beneath her consummate smile to uncover the secrets of her trade and what drove her to a life of crime.
Priests charged with corruption, dioceses in bankruptcy, money-laundering and at the core of it all, the dirty dealings of the Vatican bank. Despite the appearances, Pope Francis faces an uphill struggle. HOLY MONEY takes us into the heart of the Catholic Church’s finances and examines why, according to the bible, “You cannot serve both God and Money.”
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Fire fighter Neil Fairhall is leaving his fire station in Hayward’s Heath and heading to the Amazon to fight some of the biggest forest fires in the world.
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Londoner Colin Window, a Bridge Officer on the Woolwich ferry, travels to Dhaka, Bangladesh to work as a ferryman on a Sampan – a small wooden boat – crossing one of the most congested rivers in the world.
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Dairy farmer Richard Gibson is swapping the damp surroundings of Devon, England to live and work with Samburu tribesmen, who herd their cattle in the parched and desolate mountains of northern Kenya.
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Craig Notman from Staffordshire has been a miner all his life and currently works in mine rescue. Now he’s heading off to Mongolia to join the gold rush! As Mongolia becomes one of the fastest growing economies in the world thanks to its abundance of minerals, a large percentage of its population live in poverty.
Maria Connolly swaps her hospital in Preston, Lancashire for the Hospital General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She encounters a community terrorized by a drugs war as cartels battle to control the lucrative border into the United States, and discovers that her new colleagues witness violent crime every day in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world.
London cabbie Mason McQueen heads to Mumbai to test his skills on some of the busiest and most chaotic streets in the world. He’s swapping his high tech air conditioned black cab for the boiling heat of a Mumbai taxi.
A riveting documentary showing what censorship looks like close up, revealing the true human cost of news and what it takes to stay alive to get the story. Journalists reporting in Mexico, Russia and the Middle East relate stories of kidnapping, intimidation and beatings. These stories are heartfelt, captivating, shocking – and unforgettable.
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE fuses the story of the Diaz family learning to love with extremely rare archive footage of science experiments that explore parent child love.
Al Jazeera South East Asia correspondent Stephanie Scawen investigates the causes of Multiple Sclerosis and the possible treatments, and takes us on a journey through life as a MS patient. She must confront the inevitable decline in her physical abilities and come face to face with what seems an inevitable fate, all the while never relinquishing her hope for a cure.
In 1970, 1,500 hippies founded a commune in rural Tennessee. They shared their savings, grew their own food and built a self-sufficient society. Raised on "The Farm" by a Jewish mother and a Puerto Rican father, sisters Rena and Nadine return for the first time since 1985. They chart the rise and fall of America’s largest hippie commune and their own family tree.
In 1988 a bomb destroyed Pan Am 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people. Abdel Baset Mohamed Ali al-Megrahi, was eventually tried and found guilty of the largest case of mass murder in UK history. Megrahi maintained his innocence right up his death in May 2012 and many serious commentators continued to express doubts about the safety of this conviction
A documentary about home, and how we find it. The film follows one couple’s attempt to build a “tiny house” from scratch, and other families who have downsized their lives into homes smaller than the average parking space. Through homes stripped down to their essentials, the film raises questions about good design, the nature of home, and the changing American Dream.
An alternative local response to Kenyan's violence is the creation of a taboo-breaking TV soap opera, The Team, following the struggles of a co-ed multi-ethnic soccer squad to overcome their differences.
A documentary that chronicles Steve Lickteig’s 20-year search for who his real birth parents were; why a whole town kept the truth from him; and how his family’s tumultuous history revolves around the hidden lives of two unconventional women.
An American family is living in a state that has criminalized their existence. The parents of Katherine Figueroa are arrested when Sheriff Joe Arpaioe raids a carwash suspected of hiring illegal workers. Young Kathy fights to save her parents from deportation, while the County Board is pressured to investigate.
Kirsty Sword, aspired to be a filmmaker, but instead became a underground operative code named 'Ruby Blade'. Her task: to become a conduit of information for the enigmatic resistance leader, Kay Rala "Xanana" Gusmão, while he was serving life.They fell in love. Alias Ruby Blade captures their incredible love story, demonstrating the power of individuals to change history.
In this age of hundreds of television stations, 24-hour news and web sites, the comic book has become a documentary medium, providing a understanding of the human dimensions of war, genocide and revolution. This film explores the journalistic, aesthetic and political implications of reporting the most violent and terrible of human experiences through “comix.”
Head Games is a revealing documentary about the silent concussion crisis in American sports. Athletes from the professional to the youth levels share their personal struggles in dealing with the devastating and long-term effects of concussions, an epidemic fueled by the 'leave everything on the field' culture so prominent in American sport.
Ayed Morrar, an unlikely community organizer, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Victory seems improbable until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines.
"Do the Math," is based on a Rolling Stone article by Bill McKibben last year, and on a multi-city tour he took over the last few months. He states we only need to know three numbers to understand climate change. This film opens up the debate on the issue.
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Defying cultural norms and family expectations, 22 yr-old Heba Afify takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts. Her coming of age, political awakening and the disillusionment that follows, mirrors that of a nation seeking the freedom to shape its own destiny, dignity and democracy.
This film takes a provocative look at 21st Century Indian life: from the top of the steel structures in New York City to life 'on the Rez' where unemployment and crime make it hard to see the pristine beauty of the surrounding lands. The film shows the lives of ironworkers and offers a new perspective on contemporary Native Americans.
The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions.
Every day, large amounts of radioactive waste is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural & man-made disasters. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
