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This breathtaking short follows Raimberdi as he ingeniously constructs a hydroelectric generator to better survive in the mountains of Tajikstan.
MORE ›Durham, North Carolina’s own Bouncing Bulldogs have no peer when it comes to precision jump roping. Boys and girls leap, tumble, whirl, flip and entwine…
MORE ›The stuff of legend in pop culture. David Vetter was a real boy who, due to a rare immune system disorder, was forced to live…
MORE ›From a very young age, Evan Perry was obsessed with death and dying—on vacation, he talked about killing his father with a rifle; when he…
MORE ›The mischievous Afghan boy featured in The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan grows into a still-cheerful young man struggling to make it in a turbulent Afghanistan.
MORE ›Behind the relatively recent international headlines about Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban are the many more stories of everyday people who have lived the…
MORE ›This film delves into the turbulent life of seven-year-old Robert Oliver and his family in impoverished Europa, Mississippi. Robert’s mother turned over custody of both…
MORE ›This film dramatically captures the political motivations and strategic calculations of a group of young men who, among a thousand other Texas high school students, take part in a weeklong exercise to build a representative democracy from the ground up.
MORE ›“Nebraska…the good life.” When 20-year-old Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends in town and even…
MORE ›Sergei Dvortsevoy depicts the relentless daily life of a desolate and isolated hamlet in Kurdistan. From a distant fork on the main route, each Tuesday,…
MORE ›Spend a morning at the Garvald Bakery, where a team of workers with intellectual disabilities prepares bread for all of Edinburgh. In its eleven minutes,…
MORE ›Immunologist James P. Allison, recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and medical colleagues reflect on his remarkable career, including the discovery that is revolutionizing cancer treatment.
MORE ›Mark O’Brien, who was severely stricken with polio at a young age, believes disability to be a social problem, as it can happen to anyone.…
MORE ›Stricken with polio as a child and confined to an iron lung, one man refuses to let this limitation define his existence.
MORE ›Dawn Porter’s uplifting short film examines how the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form of protest, but as a space to heal.
MORE ›The central Asian tradition of snatching young women against their will for marriage has been in resurgence since the breakup of the Soviet Union. This…
MORE ›The sound of “Claire de Lune” being played gently on the piano provides the atmosphere and wordless sentiment for The Bridge Man, a short film…
MORE ›North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. This film describes a journey taken by our filmmaker across the social, economic, and…
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