Known as the first openly trans woman in Santa Clara, Juana originally was given the name the "Queen Mother" while she was in prison. Her story is one of discrimination and persecution, but through it all, she has remained rebellious, tenacious, and relentlessly Juana Candela (Juana on Fire). B...

Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Tripician delves into the complex legacy of the Manhattan Project in his poignant documentary. The film follows Tripician's parents, two of the 1,200 Army personnel unknowingly tasked with creating the first atomic bomb during World War II. In 1998, 53 years after the H...

Israel is the only country in the world with compulsory army service for women. Whilst in Israel this is taken as commonplace, the experiences of Israeli women soldiers are rarely heard. Six women share their experiences as soldiers in the occupied territories during the bloodiest period since th...

Dipendra and Sushmita are two Nepali orphans living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. One day, Dipendra's family contacts him and they invite him to travel to his hometown. Sushmita decides that when she grows up she wants to be a nurse.

Mariupol - ruined but not conquered. The city in the east of Ukraine has survived the occupation, total destruction, and a humanitarian catastrophe. The story of Mariupol is an especially horrifying one, with accounts reported that occupiers were murdering civilians, and actively preventing them ...

The documentary details the troubling political and economic realities underlying climate change by looking at the extraordinary exploitation of Arizona’s water by Saudi transnational corporations.

One of the deadliest results of the climate crisis is extreme heat. How do the millions of people who have to live with increasingly high temperatures survive? This BBC Arabic investigation explores the impact of global warming on different communities across the globe and their struggle to adapt...

An extraordinary inside look at the evolution of the World Trade Center horror, experienced through the eyes and the voices of people at the scene including a policeman, a fireman and an EMS worker who were among the first to arrive at ground zero. Our cameras were the first on hand and we have ...

On a hot August evening in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, a catastrophic explosion ripped through the city. It looked like a scene from a disaster movie, but it was real. As the shocking event unfolded, people around the city captured the moment, and its aftermath, on their phones. These videos ...

This short documentary made in an orphanage in India, shows with great humanity how eight children carry within them the seeds of "everyday superheroes".

Sheri Neva's day job leads here into an unexpected realm of artistic discovery at the nanoscale. Her work invites us to reexamine the world around us through the lens of an electron microscope. We follow Sheri as she purses the tiny water bear, or tardigrade as her next subject in microphotogra...

The story of legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer, Ara Guler
An insightful doc thick with the sights and smells of a foreign rarely glimpsed world. Ara Güler's archive of photographs captures the essence of Istanbul over sixty years. The legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer dedicated his li...

Two adults who grew up in the slums of Delhi strive to give new wings to the kids bounded by the shackles of poverty, drugs, and society.

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to summit Mount Everest. That same year, the jetboat was invented. With this new invention, Hillary strove to also become the first to tackle the Himalayas' greatest river: the Ganges. It was a perilous journey from ocean to sky, achieved ...