The Department

Zambia's copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia's copper mines are ow...

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s,...

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling f...

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordi...

How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the...

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.

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes...

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of H...

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of so...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs o...

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is faili...

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in ph...

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-7...

In the mountains of Northern Thailand lies a boarding school. The students come from different tribe...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...

Award winning feature documentary about an art program for homeless people.

Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-...

Funny story of an unemployed metalworker, self-proclaimed Marxist, his views and whereabouts.