One man’s journey to blend the traditions of his family’s culture with his adopted American life.
April 2008 (check local listings)
The Emmy Award-winning feature documentary follows three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops.
Maid in America explores the many roles of undocumented workers who came to America in search of a better life.
Women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories tell their stories, revealing the transformation of a city and its people by globalization.
Five-year-old Mai is newly arrived from China and placed in a kindergarten classroom in a small, Midwestern town. Carlos is an illegal immigrant living in the United States with his wife and two children.
This documentary tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades.
September 2009 (check local listings)
A survivor of Chadian dictator Hissène Habré's torture and the American son of a Holocaust survivor fight to bring Habré to justice.
April 2009 (check local listings)
This miniseries follows new immigrants and refugees — from Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, the West Bank and Mexico — as they travel from their homelands to the United States.
June-July 2009 (check local listings)
This film follows a handful of Shaolin monks who have brought the style to America, chronicling their adventures in New York City, Houston and Las Vegas.
Taking viewers from Hawaii to Japan to Los Angeles, the film profiles some of the most prominent non-Japanese sumo wrestlers.
Filmed by the first-ever team of female video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this uncompromising film reveals the effects on Afghan women of the Taliban’s repressive rule and of the U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign.
Eight widows in the Arab Israeli village of Tamra, in Galilee, challenge convention by opening a business.
August 2009 (check local listings)
Twin ballerinas, forever linked by birth and dance, struggling to overcome rifts not only between sisters but also between nations.
The life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China.
A 17-year-old karate world champion strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village.
July 2010 (check local listings)
Currently, one in seven Afghan women dies in childbirth.
As westerners revel in designer lattes, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice.
A group of Chinese children on their way to becoming acrobats.
March 2008 (check local listings)
A group of Arab and Jewish parents decides to establish a bi-national, bilingual grade school in the Wadi Ara village in Israel.
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo investigates the mysterious death of her wealthy Mexican uncle Oscar.
In a castle outside Moscow, Mikhail Morozov rules over young initiates, laying the groundwork for a rapidly growing right-wing movement.
May 2008 (check local listings)
Mike Siv is going to meet his dad and brother for the first time since he escaped Cambodia as a kid.
June 2008 (check local listings)
The story and disappearance of the most absurd of the world’s constructions: the Berlin Wall.
The controversy behind China’s Three Gorges dam project, told by the people most affected.
A young Iowa housewife discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific massacres in Guatemalan history, committed in 1982 against Maya Indian villagers.
Israeli filmmaker David Fisher and his four siblings begin an emotionally challenging search for their long-lost sister.
July 2008 (check local listings)
Documentary follows rural Columbian children through an entire school year.
A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are joyously reunited after 22 years. Followed by the short film “Balikbayan.”
Set against the backdrop of the choppy history of U.S.-Cuban relations, this program documents how both countries have used baseball as a political tool.
An illiterate Zulu musician wrote Africa's most famous song, "Mbube" — inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
“The Flute Player” relates Cambodian musician Arn Chorn-Pond’s journey back to a still-uneasy Cambodia from the U.S. to find surviving “master musicians” and to recover his own Cambodian identity. With the short film “50/Fifty.”
August 2008 (check local listings)
The chaotic, funny and tragic story of an agency that runs a weekly bus from Turin to Magreb.
Former Black Panther Pete O’Neal has lived in Tanzania for more than 30 years as one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the U.S. government. Followed by the short film “Kinshasa 2.0.”
The story of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas) and activist Father Roy Bourgeois’ campaign against the school.
September 2008 (check local listings)
Three generations of Hmong refugees struggle with their personal and political legacies.
May 2009 (check local listings)
Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
May 2009 (check local listings).
Follows the 2007 elections in which three candidates are vying to be the next governor in Papua New Guinea.
Through a journey that takes her back to her roots in Thailand, a young Mien woman from Sacramento strives to come to terms with her family’s past.
“Beyond the Border” traces the painful transition made by four sons who leave their family in Mexico and fight cultural, class and language barriers in the United States.
“Estilo Hip Hop” chronicles the emergence of hip hop music in Latin America, its impact on youth culture and the regional politics that underscore its existence.
June 2009 (check local listings)
Nigerian families, a young Palestinian woman and two Dominican baseball players make plans to travel to the United States.
The Palestinian woman gets married, the Dominicans face language and cultural differences at spring training and the Nigerian families struggle with low-wage jobs.
In the third episode, everyone faces discrimination and culture clashes.
The Dominicans and one of the Nigerian women return home. A Mexican family attempts to immigrate to the U.S.
Fifth episode introduces an Indian computer programmer planning to work in Silicon Valley.
July 2009 (check local listings)
Struggles and strains for the families and couples; one Dominican makes his Major League debut.
In the final episode, most characters become more settled in the U.S., but the Indian couple returns home.
This program explores the human dimensions of industrial gold-mining in two remote locations.
A portrait of the late United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, who devoted his life to global humanitarian efforts.
Family members of those who vanished during the dictatorship of Franco have begun to look for their relatives’ remains; they reflect on that dark period and its ongoing effect on their lives.
A look at a heinous crime wave, the rape and murder of hundreds of young women, amid the corruption of one of the world's biggest border towns: Juarez, Mexico.
An intimate look at two candidates struggling to participate in Afghanistan's landmark event: the country’s constitutional convention, the Loya Jirga.
An exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz creates a multimedia installation to heal the wounds inflicted by state-sponsored torture during the Pinochet regime.
One man’s fight against an epidemic that claims its victims by the millions and the innocent children and teenagers struck by the reality of a global nightmare.
May 2010 (check local listings)
Three young Cambodian-Americans find themselves caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future.
Inside a blue jeans factory in southern China, the film looks at complex issues of globalization from the human level.
In-depth look at modern-day Vietnam, where a marriage of communism and capitalism is providing opportunity unimagined in a previous generation.
The Rat brothers are on quest to find the big fish — the one that will bring easy money and allow them to leave their small village in Serbia for the bright lights of Vegas.
June 2010 (check local listings)
A Chinese-born filmmaker reflects on the personal ramifications of sacrificing oneself for communism and socialism.
A year in the lives of two Somali Bantu families as they leave behind a legacy of slavery in Africa to face new challenges in a new land.
This is a compelling and humorous look at the Middle East conflict through the eyes of seven children growing up in Jerusalem, living only 20 minutes apart but locked in separate worlds.
Director Yishai Orian, owner of an old Volkswagen Beetle, blends his story of ownership with the exciting, funny, sad and intimate memories of the car's previous owners.
Five Middle Eastern teens are initiated into the cut-throat subculture of competitive high-school debating.
