Senator Obama Goes to Africa Category: Documentaries Follow Senator Barack Obama as he travels to the land of his ancestry. From South Africa to Kenya to a Darfur refugee camp, Obama explores the continent that is gaining increasing importance in this age of globalization.
Sir! No Sir! Category: Documentaries The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films. But the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war has been suppressed, and never before been told on screen. Until now.
Arianna Huffington: U.S. Politics and the Media Category: News & Current Affairs In this speech, Arianna Huffington attacks the misuse of the “Fair and Balanced” credo, and advises on what Americans need to do to counterbalance what she calls “the lunatic fringe” of the Republican Party.
International Dateline: Magic Mint Menace Category: News & Current Affairs International Dateline reports on the dangers of the drug salvia. Also in this episode, an interview with author Thomas Friedman on the global economy, and a look inside Mexico's battle against drug cartels.
GLOBAL LENS: Max and Mona Category: World Cinema Max Bua has his sights set on becoming a doctor. However, unable to pay his university fees, he must crash at his hard-drinking uncle's place...with goat in tow.
GLOBAL LENS: Bunny Chow Category: World Cinema Three up-and-coming comedians find humor amidst hardship in the "new" Johannesburg, celebrating life on a raucous roadtrip to South Africa’s largest music festival.
GLOBAL LENS: Kilometre Zero Category: World Cinema A tragi-comic story of ethnic conflict between Kurds and Iraqis during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, this film follows the adventures of a Kurdish soldier - a despised minority in the Iraqi military - traveling with an Iraqi taxi driver.
GLOBAL LENS: Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri) Category: World Cinema A father travels from his village to the city, determined to find his son. But instead, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to face his family's estrangement head-on.
GLOBAL LENS: Nada + Category: World Cinema Cuban postal clerk, Carla, takes up the absurd lengths of red tape in her bureaucracy and ties them up in a bow as she fabricates a rich - and covert - fantasy life out of her comrades' letters.
GLOBAL LENS: Rachida Category: World Cinema Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom, forcing her to seek refuge in the countryside. Can she escape?
GLOBAL LENS: The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant) Category: World Cinema Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to fulfill an arranged marriage. But she has a secret: she's in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the checkpoint.
GLOBAL LENS: Whisky Category: World Cinema Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.
