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Deep Ambition

Karen van den Oever attempts to break the women’s world record for the deepest scuba dive.

The Murder of Laci Peterson

The Murder of Laci Peterson explores the infamous Scott Peterson trial, the case that destroyed a family, gripped a nation and defined an era. This documentary series takes a fresh look at the case and reexamines the circumstantial evidence and assessing the media’s influence on the case and its outcome 15 years later. Along with unprecedented…

Saving Soweto

The series profiles “a day in the life” of the dedicated, but overworked doctors, staff, and nurses at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, located in the township of Soweto near Johannesburg, South Africa. Known as Bara by the locals, it is the world’s largest hospital and serves a community of five million people. Each episode follows…

Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet

Charents: In Search Of My Armenian Poet explores the life and work of one of Armenia’s best-loved poets, Eghishe Charents, who was tragically killed in a Stalinist prison in 1937 under mysterious circumstances. Who was this man, this poet? If you ask anyone today, without hesitation, they would say Charents was the poet of the people….

Forgotten Freedom Fighters

In 1991, the ANC suspended their armed struggle against the South African government. In 2009, the majority of former combatants are unemployed and still waiting for compensation promised to them. Forgotten Freedom Fighters looks into the lives of a group of former combatants living in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra who have given up waiting and…

The Rageh Omaar Report: The Party’s Over

In June 2010, the eyes of the world were on South Africa as it hosted the largest international sporting event – the FIFA World Cup. For ordinary South Africans, it was also a month-long reprieve from the usual bad news about crime, corruption, and poverty that has plagued the nation in recent years. But it…

Squares

Squares tells the story of Varene Anderson, the filmmaker’s grandmother, who founded the National Square Dance Convention in Riverside, California in 1952, together with her husband, Carl Anderson, and two other square dancing couples. The filmmaker explores the fascinating world of square dancing, while also learning more about her own family’s connection to the national folk…

The Kings and Queens of Chess

Armenia, a tiny landlocked country nestled in the sub-Caucasus, has a long history with the game of chess, going as far back as the early Middle Ages. When Armenia became a Soviet republic, chess was institutionalized with the founding of the Armenian Chess Federation in 1927, creating a platform for tournaments and rankings. But it…

These Streets Belong To Us

With one of highest crime rates in the world, South Africans are struggling with the repercussions of living in a country where they feel they are at the mercy of criminals and that the police cannot protect them. Much of the crime is often accompanied by gratuitous violence – torture, rape and assault often go…

Breaking Out of the Box

Buhle Msibi’s poem I Break The Boxes provides the title for this wide-ranging, touching, often funny documentary highlighting the lives of black lesbians in South Africa. The title is appropriate; by telling the tales of six high profile women, the sheer breadth of experience in the black lesbian community is revealed, the profiled women all having redefined…