Al Jazeera Documentaries
Africa
Magic and Murder
People and Power investigates sorcery-related infanticide in the African republic of Benin.
Field of Hope
One woman's enterprise helps DR Congo's rape survivors find healing and an independent income through farming.
How to Mobilise a Million
Through friendship and bravery a group of young Sudanese fight to overthrow one of the world's most brutal regimes.
Sudan: History of a broken land
Sudan once represented the greatest hope for peaceful coexistence between Arab and African, Muslim and Christian.
A blessing or a curse?
With mismanagement, corruption and unethical practices, we look at what oil really means for the people of Sudan.
What Price the Story?
Africa Investigates gives some of Africa's best journalists the chance to pursue high-level investigative targets.
Murder in Kinshasa
Who really killed DR Congo's President Laurent-Desire Kabila and is the world ignoring a major miscarriage of justice?
Chad's long road to independence
Fifty years after it gained its freedom from France, some say Chad is being subjected to a new form of colonialism.
An African renaissance in Senegal?
After 50 years of independence, the West African country is finally severing ties with its former colonial master.
Street Life in Lagos
Searching for a better life, many immigrants are struggling to survive in the world's fastest growing megacity.
Two former Lord's Resistance Army commanders seek tribal justice in order to be granted atonement for their crimes.
Witness Last Modified: 28 Jun 2012 06:36 GMT
An investigation into the plight of African women caught in a web of organised crime, prostitution and trafficking.
People & Power Last Modified: 21 Mar 2013 15:09 GMT
In a country divided between those who see Chavez as a hero and those who see him as a dictator one man is speaking out.
Activate Last Modified: 19 Sep 2011 11:21 GMT
Americas
White Power USA
Is the US heading toward a future of racial tolerance or racially-motivated violence?
The Crying Forest
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo follows the story of an activist who lived and died for the Amazon Rainforest.
American radical
The trials of Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein.
The politics of death row
With the US continuing to execute prisoners, Fault Lines looks at the politics driving capital punishment in the US.
The Dreamers
Roughly two million young people in the US are unaware that they are classified as illegal immigrants.
The daredevil pilots of Colombia
Colombian pilots brave one of the world's most perilous air routes to deliver supplies to villagers deep in the Amazon.
Peru: A league of their own
Football is helping the women of the Andes find a political voice and fight the effects of climate change.
Colombia's gold rush
Gold fever is sweeping across South America and is at its most lethal in Colombia where it is fuelling the civil war.
Homefront
More women are serving on the frontlines than ever before, but many return home to find that new battles await them.
The teenage miners of Bolivia
Jorge and Alex are teenagers looking for a way out of desperate poverty and lives blighted by mining-induced ill health.
One year after the dramatic rescue of 33 miners from deep beneath the ground Lucia Newman returns to Chile.
Al Jazeera Correspondent Last Modified: 17 Aug 2011 08:53 GMT
It is a nation built on the abolition of slavery, but there are at least 40,000 slaves in the US today.
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil Last Modified: 25 Mar 2012 07:56 GMT
Colombia's former FARC guerrillas must live with the regrets of their past and the deadly temptations of the present.
Witness Last Modified: 07 Nov 2011 08:11 GMT
Cuba has taken a dramatic step away from its socialist policies of the past, but how has this impacted ordinary Cubans?
People & Power Last Modified: 31 Aug 2011 08:07 GMT
A love story between a dentist from New Jersey with a passion for photography and the iconic New York skyline.
Witness Last Modified: 05 Sep 2011 11:23 GMT
One out of every three Americans is obese, but food revolutions are underway and some are fighting back.
Fault Lines Last Modified: 20 Nov 2010 07:35 GMT
There is a unique and dangerous commerce system at work in Amazonia, where children risk their lives for a few pennies.
Programmes Last Modified: 08 Feb 2012 15:36 GMT
Bolivia's coca farmers make a living criss-crossing deep valleys on a web of makeshift cables high above forest canopy.
Programmes Last Modified: 22 Feb 2012 12:56 GMT
A special three-part series taking an in-depth look at the post 9/11 'war on terror'.
Al Jazeera World Last Modified: 21 Oct 2011 16:52 GMT
Examining the impact of the Australian government's so-called 'intervention' policy on aboriginal communities.
Witness Last Modified: 29 Jul 2011 12:54 GMT
Asia-Pacific
Children of Agent Orange
How a group of US veterans in Vietnam are trying to atone for the mistakes of the past.
iProtest
Activist Debby Chan takes on one of the world's favourite brands in her fight for workers' rights.
Japan: Aftermath of a disaster
People & Power looks at Miyako's citizens that survived Japan's devastating earthquake.
Harvesting the future
An impoverished Chinese farmer struggles to equip his daughters for a better future in a changing world.
Nobody's child
A man embarks on a journey to discover the link between China's Cultural Revolution and his parents' divorce.
Family matters
An insight into the problems presented by China's rapidly ageing population.
Imelda and Me
Veronica Pedrosa, whose family was forced into exile by the Philippines Marcos regime, confronts Imelda about her past.
Thailand's tropical gulag
People & Power investigates a conflict in southern Thailand that is now in its seventh year.
A team of magistrates travel by motorbike to remote mountain villages in a bid to bring state justice to rural China.
Faces of China
Faces of China Last Modified: 31 Jan 2011 14:40 GMT
Barnaby Phillips follows the life of one of the forgotten heroes of World War II.
Al Jazeera Correspondent
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A journey across Afghanistan with the US army's medical team.
People & Power Last Modified: 15 Sep 2011 12:37 GMT
Central & South Asia
Pakistani truckers' perilous journey
Meet the men who navigate arguably the world's most dangerous road in order to ferry goods to remote mountain villages.
Cruel but quite usual
People & Power investigates the terrifying plight of Uzbek exiles.
Endgame?
Will the US withdrawal from Afghanistan threaten hard-won gains in the battle against the Taliban?
Mustang: A Kingdom on the Edge
Al Jazeera's Steve Chao follows the struggle of the Tibetan people to preserve an ancient culture.
Pakistan: The New Radicals
Ali Abbas travels around Pakistan tackling fanaticism, but can he make a difference?
Revolutionary Daughters
How two activists are challenging Indian society and transforming trafficked girls into the leaders of tomorrow.
Bonded slaves
It is a form of slavery that is passed down from one generation to the next, enslaving millions.
India's Silent War
Imran Garda examines the 40-year war that has claimed thousands of lives but been largely ignored outside of India.
Naseema was born into and lives in one of India's most infamous brothels but is now working to free trafficked women.
Witness Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 GMT
An investigation into the trafficking of Nepalese children that are sold to work in Indian circuses.
People & Power Last Modified: 06 Sep 2011 14:27 GMT
This film deconstructs five days in August when England burned and asks whether it has now emerged from the ashes.
People & Power Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 12:57 GMT
Europe
Spain's baby market
The story of a lost generation and the anguish of those searching desperately for their loved ones.
Vatican Inc.
People & Power examines the secretive world of the Vatican's bank.
Secrets and children
People & Power investigates allegations of neglect in Ireland's childcare system.
Children of the Riots
Greek youths reflect on how the killing of a teenager by the police and the resulting riots changed their lives.
Chasing Mladic
People & Power examines the story behind the hunt for Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted man.
Children of the cannabis trade
An investigation into how Vietnamese children trafficked to work in the UK's cannabis trade are prosecuted as criminals.
Ingushetia: A second Chechnya?
People & Power investigates the conflict in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.
Germany's records of repression
Fifty years after the Berlin Wall was erected, the spectre of the Stasi continues to loom over Germany.
There are an estimated 1.4 million sex slaves in the world today and international trafficking is on the rise.
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil Last Modified: 25 Mar 2012 08:00 GMT
Andrew Richardson goes in search of the soul of British football.
Al Jazeera Correspondent
Al Jazeera Correspondent Last Modified: 17 Aug 2011 11:08 GMT
The stories behind the iconic images of the Arab uprisings as told by those who filmed them.
Al Jazeera World Last Modified: 19 Oct 2011 13:50 GMT
Middle East
Fighting in the Fifth Dimension
Innovations in technology are changing the tactics of modern-day conflict, turning the cyberworld into a new frontline.
Bahrain: Shouting in the dark
The story of the Arab revolution that was abandoned by the Arabs, forsaken by the West and forgotten by the world.
About a boycott
The BDS movement aims to economically undermine Israel, but is it really having the desired impact on the ground?
The Arab Awakening
As revolution shakes the Arab world, a series of films explore the roots of the uprisings and ask 'what next'?
Legacy of dispute
It is a source of sustenance but also of tension and new political realities are now increasing uncertainty.
Yemen: A tale of two protests
As demonstrations advance across Yemen, People & Power follows activist Tawakkol Karman.
Masters no more
For centuries, Egypt has sought to tame the Nile and control its use, but others are now challenging this dominance.
I knew bin Laden
An insight into Osama bin Laden's life through the eyes of people who knew him and met him.
Hoda's Story
We follow a Palestinian girl's gradual rehabilitation after she was shot and blinded in Gaza.
Tension and suspicion
The battle for control of the Nile is at the heart of geopolitical rivalries - both old and new - in the region.
How one Israeli soldier became a bargaining chip in a much larger political game.
People & Power Last Modified: 19 Oct 2011 07:42 GMT
Al Jazeera looks at the life of the late Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat.
Special programme
General Last Modified: 29 Sep 2009 08:48 GMT
We look at the role of social media in Egypt and at the bloggers who sowed the seeds of a multi-media uprising.
Witness
Witness Last Modified: 01 Feb 2011 12:08 GMT
Fault Lines travels to Bahrain and asks why the US backs democracy in one Arab country, but not another.
Fault Lines
Fault Lines Last Modified: 26 Jul 2011 10:18 GMT
Fault Lines travels to the frontlines of the war in Libya to see what US policy looks like on the ground.
Fault Lines
Fault Lines Last Modified: 22 Aug 2011 07:10 GMT
Does the absence of a common history textbook reflect broader divisions in Lebanon?
Al Jazeera World
Al Jazeera World Last Modified: 08 Jul 2011 08:34 GMT
Lebanese women from all sides talk about participating in their country's civil war.
Bilal Khrais
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Lebanese reflect upon 22 years of occupation and the day it ended.
Al Jazeera World
Programmes Last Modified: 03 Aug 2010 13:01 GMT
As Gaddafi wages war against a popular uprising, Libyan exiles explain how terror has long been a tool of the regime.
Special programme
General Last Modified: 03 Mar 2011 16:19 GMT
Josh Rushing travels to the city dubbed the murder capital of the world.
Fault Lines
Fault Lines Last Modified: 14 Jun 2011 09:40 GMT
Mexico's Drug War
Fort Hancock
While Mexico's drug war rages on, where do those caught in the crossfire find a safe haven?
Mexico's hidden war
Josh Rushing finds out how campesino communities caught in the narco-economy are resisting repression and dispossession.
The Deadliest Beat
A look at the journalists who are determined to report the grim truth about Mexico's violent drug war.
The top 1%
With 1% of Americans controlling 40% of the country's wealth, we examine the gap between the rich and the rest.
Economy
Puerto Rico: The fiscal experiment
Fault Lines travels to Puerto Rico to investigate the harsh economic policies being imposed on the people there.
How to Stop a Multinational
Three Argentinians put themselves in harm's way as they try to stop a gold mining company destroying their environment.
Environment
To the Last Drop
Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known.
Bolivia's thirst for change
A look at Evo Morales' struggle to reconcile environmental goals with economic development.
The other debt crisis: Climate debt
Avi Lewis travels to Bolivia to explore the country's climate crusade from the inside.
Man from the Mountains of the Moon
Could an ancient herb be the answer to both poverty and malaria in Africa?
Health
The one per cent solution
People & Power investigates the global war against polio.
Dhaka's Cholera wars
Cholera is a silent killer in Bangladesh but one hospital is helping to give hope to millions.
Outsourced: Clinical trials overseas
As US pharmaceutical companies move their operations abroad, India has become a testing ground for trial medicines.
Freedom from Pain
For many in the West pain ends with a pill, but elsewhere the war on drugs is cutting people off from pain medication.
The killing season
What can be done to crack down on the black-market trade in anti-malarial drugs in Uganda?
The Mountain Midwives of Vietnam
The maternal mortality rate in rural regions of northern Vietnam is 10 times higher than the national average.
Maternal Health
Right to life Guatemala
Today, illegal abortions are the leading cause of death among young women in Latin America.
The risk of choice
The most frequent surgical procedure in the US is the C-section, but can the blessings of choice be a curse of options?
Fistula Hospital: Healing and hope
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital treats 1,300 women a year - we hear some of their stories.
Fistula Hospital: Facing the future
We look towards the future as we follow the people working on Fistula prevention.
Fistula Hospital: Reaching out
We see the work being done in the hospital's rural clinics and follow one woman on her emotional journey home.
Hard Labour in Hungary
A look at the growing criminalisation of homebirth midwives and Hungary''s controversial policies.
Caught in the Cradle
More children are having children in the US than in any other developed nation in the world.
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