Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …
This episode of UN In Action addresses the famine situation in South Sudan, a hostile territory for organizations like …
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
Tova does not believe in love but exercises her matchmaker job with an admirable passion. Diagnosed with muscular dystr…
A visit to Bloorcourt, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of Toronto, where immigrant entrepreneurs from all over the w…
In the region of Rajasthan, India, naturalist Gerhard Weihan takes up the challenge of raising and reinserting a small …
Filmmaker María Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story. When she was only 10 years ol…
Lovebirds are young rebel lovers that risk their life just to stay together. They escape their families and persecution…
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow the Somali police force in their attempt to eradicate the contamination of ex…
This episode of UN In Action takes us to New York, where the United Nations promotes urban farming as a sustainable way…
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
At first glance, Australians Jock and Dianne Chambers look like an ordinary couple on a trip around India. But their mo…
Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacitie…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
In the midst of an unstable political and social situation, a contingent of female UN peacekeepers helps solve the prob…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
Funny, technological, and happily nostalgic, this documentary is the gateway to the world of video game collectors in t…
This episode of UN In Action focuses on the terrorism victims in Cameroon. A conflict that has forced hundreds of thous…
Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
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