In this episode of UN, a Japanese activist raises awareness about the danger to human health from chemical waste, speci…
This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
A survivor of sexual violence herself, Tatiana Mukanire uses music therapy to help other survivors. This is her story a…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
Meet Natalia Gallardo. She is an Uruguayan peacekeeper who collaborates in a MONUSCO mission patrolling the lakes of Co…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
This episode of UN in action nos muestra cómo los integrantes de una escuela primaria en Kenya aprenden a sembrar y cui…
Farmers in Nepal are the worst affected by climate change as most of them are forced to migrate to other countries to s…
Pablo Lecuona, an Argentinian with visual disability, introduces us to a digital library that has adapted hundreds of t…
This episode of UN in action shows us the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been helping stabilise the country…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
Using footage filmed by intrepid cameramen, in the middle of the firing line in battle, this propaganda film documents …
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
This propaganda film commissioned by the United States government was shown to the troops that would occupy Germany jus…
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