This modern tale goes beneath the streets of Bucharest and introduces five members of a "family" of orphaned, abandoned, or runaway children living in a subway station. The children beg and steal to survive and buy drugs.

Srebrenica, Bosnia, was the world's first United Nations Safe Area. It was also the site of the worst act of genocide in Europe since World War II.

A graphic, behind-the-scenes look at the horror of the Rwandan genocide compiled from over 100 videotapes of previously unreleased footage. This chilling documentary is based on the diary kept by Belgian journalist Els De Temmerman over a five-month period in 1994.

A unique look at life in contemporary Iran through the window of a divorce court. At times hilarious, at times tragic, the film reveals the intimate circumstances of the lives of Iranian women.

This collage of archival footage reveals the cycle of war in human life. With deeply evocative narration taken from Reflections on the War by Antonin de Saint-Exupéry, the film goes through 100 years of military conflicts in Russia...

Filmmaker Taras Popov worked as a psychiatrist at a prison for boys in Kazakhstan for over 10 years before taking a video camera to record the stories of the children who considered him a friend. The result is an amazingly intimate portrait of the tragic lives of these young boys.

Belarus under President Alexander Lukashenko. Through interviews and assorted footage (police roundups, food lines, the nostalgic gathering of the "People’s Congress of the USSR"), the film suggests that the Soviet Union didn’t die but traveled through a time warp and into exile in Belarus.

The word "gleaner" has its origins in medieval Europe and meant someone who picks leftover crops after a harvest. In the modern world, it has come to mean those who scavenge through the trash heaps of consumer society.

Papua New Guinea is inhabited by more than 900 tribes, each with its own language and culture. For over 100 years, missionaries from every Christian denomination have tried to covert the Papuan tribesmen.

The banality of evil seen through the personal lives of five of the 20th century’s most reviled dictators: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, and Mao. Comprised almost exclusively of rare archival footage and home movies, and with narration drawn from historical records, the film unveils the dictators’ personal habits, idiosyncrasies, and insecurities.

From 1996, when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, till the September 11 attacks, the misery of the Afghan people was largely ignored by the international community. But in 1999, the Italian relief agency Emergency, led by Dr. Gino Strada, goes to Northern Alliance territory to set up a field hospital for landmine victims.

An impressionistic vision of Tajikstan in the years just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The camera moves anonymously through the streets of Dushanbe observing the patterns of daily life and the poverty and stark contrasts of the city.

On New Year’s Eve 1993, a day before the NAFTA free trade agreement was to come into effect, a group of masked indigenous Mayan Indians – the Zapatista National Liberation Army – seized hundreds of large ranches and occupied several towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

In 1971, a group of Vietnam veterans began a march through Massachusetts to protest the US war. They go through small towns, peacefully reenacting the way they used to enter Vietnamese villages – interrogating, beating, and killing the villagers – to bring home to people the brutality of the war.