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Can photography change the world? James Balog, a National Geographic nature photographer, hopes so. Smitten with the glittering, translucent beauty of arctic landscapes, Balog uses…
MORE ›Scientific fact and aesthetic beauty merge in monumental and dramatic time-lapse photos
illustrating global warming’s chilling ravages.
Gifted Italian mortician Karine spends her days among the dead and her evenings among the living, approaching both worlds with contemplation and calm.
MORE ›In the 1940s, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chavez Ravine was home to 300 Latino families. As in many American cities in the 1950s, these…
MORE ›Meet Joe Cheek: folk musician, retro-fashion plate and dedicated son of two paranoid schizophrenic fundamentalists. Constantly berated by a father who blames him for every…
MORE ›For over 35 years, the story of the explosion at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant has intrigued many, and myriad movies, TV shows, and news programs…
MORE ›Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These…
MORE ›During the Second World War, 400 Jewish refugee children were saved in the tiny French village of Chabannes. This is the untold story of a…
MORE ›This film is a candid view into a community of homeless children living in and around a Moscow train station. The filmmakers observe the children’s…
MORE ›In 1906, Belgium’s Albert I founded the Ibis School to educate orphaned boys from the country’s seafaring communities. More than a hundred years later, the…
MORE ›In 2008, William D. Caballero began making an autobiographical film, traveling to the trailer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he grew up and interviewing his…
MORE ›Set in London, England, during the Industrial Revolution, The Chimney Swift is an animated short that offers a haunting yet handsomely illustrated view into the…
MORE ›Jasmine, a 16-year-old Chinese peasant, moves from the rural Sichuan province to the industrial city of Shaxi and finds work at the Lifeng blue jean…
MORE ›Shooting clandestinely, with smuggled equipment and under threat of arrest, director Micha Peled gains extraordinary access into life at a blue-jeans factory in China to give us an unprecedented look at the current state of Chinese labor.
MORE ›Every winter the Yurungkash River in western China dries up, revealing an expanse of river-worn stones. There, hidden within the rock, lies a buried treasure…
MORE ›Chisholm ’72 is an important lesson in the history of alternative electoral politics in America. Shirley Chisholm was a nursery school teacher in the 1940s and…
MORE ›A powerful look at the pioneering, grassroots campaign of the first African American woman to run for President.
MORE ›Christo’s Valley Curtain celebrates the Bulgarian-born artist’s dramatic hanging of a huge orange curtain between two Colorado mountains. Since the late 1950’s, Christo’s large-scale temporary works of art have helped change our perception of art and society.
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