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- Real life "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers overcame a life of drugs and violence to become a symbol of hope for the children of Africa. Explore the life of this missionary who preaches justice with compassion and an iron fist.
- A retired US President, a motley crew of public health veterans, former child soldiers, and local volunteers traverse political minefields, treacherous terrain, and bloody civil war to chase after a worm.
- An ordinary day in the lives of four girls, from morning to bedtime, at school and at home with their families, teachers and friends.
- A modern odyssey into the heart of Africa at the historic moment when Sudan, the continent's largest country, is being divided into two separate states.
- Fleeing South Sudan's brutal civil war, a mother and daughter face unthinkable dangers as they journey towards safety. Can those most affected by the violence return and rebuild the nation that was stolen from them?
- South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.
- Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum travels the world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to state their case.
- One mother's fight against the global sugar mafia.
- Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role... Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas investigates land grabbing and its impact on people's lives. Pursuing the truth, we meet investors, development bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and evicted farmers deprived of their land.
- This is the story of the last voices of the Earth.
- A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
- Uganda, 1989. A young rebel who claims to be visited by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a movement against the central power: the LRA, The Lord's Resistance Army. An "army" that grew by kidnapping teenagers - more than 60 000 over 25 years - of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Michael, a group of friends, were among these teenagers, kidnapped at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normality, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they don't fully understand, they are forever the wrong elements which society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the central African jungle, the Ugandan army continues to hunt down the scattered rebels left of the LRA. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.
- In war-torn South Sudan, Makur Diet knows all too well the horror of conflict. Over ten years ago, he lost his leg to a bullet. Makur was close to giving up, until one day he was given a prosthetic leg, and with it a new lease of life.
- In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor sets out in a vintage biplane to retrace her flight. Her extraordinary eight and a half week journey from Cape Town to Goodwood is nearly 10,000 miles long and takes her through 15 African countries. From the beauty of the wilderness to the challenge of flying through war torn nations, Tracey faces many of the same challenges as her aviatrix predecessor. With aviation fuel scarce and with a top speed of only 95 miles an hour, her progress is slow and at times frightening. Accompanied in the aircraft by another pilot, her aircraft was fitted with satellite navigation which made the trip far safer.
- Film-maker Emile Dinneen journeys into the remotest regions of South Sudan, discovering ancient customs thriving in the midst of a brutal decades-long civil war.
- A journey from the mythical Dinka world in South Sudan to the dreams of happiness living a new life in Norway.
- No Parents. No Food. No Future. Stranded in Sub-Saharan Africa, orphaned by an AIDS epidemic, thousands of children are left on their own, in need of a shepherd to save them.
- Zachariah Char, a Sudanese "Lost Boy" featured in the New York Times, returns to South Sudan and his home village of Duk Padiet to search for his mother and father - 24 years after fleeing the country during a civil war.
- Stories of refugees living in South Sudan and Salesians that gave them a new hope.
- After 60 years of civil war, the Republic of South Sudan has emerged as the world's youngest nation. The World's Youngest Nation: South Sudan, filmed on location in the Republic of South Sudan, explores the emergence of a new nation from civil war. South Sudan faces many hurdles, not only is it the world's newest nation but it is also one of its youngest, with 70 percent the population being under 30 years of age. Yet it is the youth who give South Sudan hope. Through the eyes of five Southern Sudanese youths, this documentary explores not just the politics of South Sudan but also the creativity and courage of its youth in art, music, sports and education.
- The second installment of the "Endure" documentary series, this film follows Jay Denton as he travels to Uganda and South Sudan in order to produce a cross-cultural album between artists in the US and artists who were once child-soldiers