An in-depth exposé of the realities of the life of illegal immigrants trying to enter Europe. This investigative documentary follows a group of Iraqis and their smugglers as they cross dangerous terrain to reach the Greek-Turkish border and highlights the increasingly restrictive measures European countries have adopted to keep refugees out.

Turks began immigrating en masse to West Germany during the postwar reconstruction of the 1950-60s, the vast majority of them to find work as manual laborers. By the 1980s, the Turkish community was well established in West Germany, but in many cases they remained de facto second class citizens.

Every day during August and September, thousands of people from China’s Sichaun province pack into crowded trains and set out on a 3,000 km journey to the cotton fields of Xinjiang, where they will be employed as seasonal workers.

An up-close look at the lives of refugees in Africa displaced by war. Mohammed was just 10 years old when he was forced to act as a child soldier with rebel forces fighting in Sierra Leone. His duties included carrying heavy equipment and torturing other child soldiers who stepped out of line.

Filmmaker Jon Alpert goes undercover to expose the workings of the illegal immigration trade in China. Officially, the ”selling” of Chinese workers to western companies is prohibited, but when Alpert comes to the Fujian province looking for workers for his ”big farm in the US,” Mafia ”man-brokers,” called ”snakeheads,” do not hesitate to ”sell” him a group of 20-30 Chinese workers.

The final installment of Yamina Benguigui’s epic three-part documentary revealing the lives of North African immigrants to France and their descendants. Driven by economic circumstances to seek a better life in France, North African immigrants find themselves caught between two worlds.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, there has been an alarming increase in the forced prostitution and trafficking of women from eastern Europe to the west and North America. This investigative documentary journeys into the macabre world of the sex trafficking trade, which is flourishing in the absence of regulations and lack of political will to curtail the problem.

Is it a major victory for African AIDS victims, or just a media smokescreen? In April 2001, multinational pharmaceutical companies discontinued copyright and price protections of their AIDS drugs, and the costs of these medicines are set to go down.