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28'
Taking on Trump
United States - 2022
In Wyoming, the most pro-Trump state in America, Republican Liz Cheney is taking a stand against Donald Trump’s campaigning. A former supporter of Trump, she’s now become one of his staunchest critics.
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29'
Taliban's War on Terror
Afghanistan - 2022
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban saw Afghanistan stripped of democracy. On top of this political upheaval, just 11 days after the Taliban took Afghanistan's capital, Islamic State launched the first of several attacks in the country. These attacks have killed hundreds of civilians, and shattered any hope of a lasting peace or stability in Afghanistan. Now, Norwegian Paul Refsdal reports, the Taliban is waging their own War on Terror in the Eastern province of Nangarhar - the birthplace of the Afghan branch of the Islamic State. Here, the violence rarely grabs international headlines, but confrontations between the Taliban security forces and the Islamic State are a nearly daily occurrence.
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29'
Taking Up Alms
Thailand - 2022
Across Thailand a quiet revolution is underway. Hundreds of women are defying generations of Thai tradition and ordaining as Theravada Buddhist monks. Under the current rules in Thailand, only men are officially able to be ordained as monks. For women, it's forbidden. The governing body for monks, the Supreme Sangha Council, maintains that women can't be ordained because female monks never existed in Thailand. At the forefront of this growing movement in Thailand is the Venerable Dhammananda. In 2003, the former academic became the country's first Theravada Buddhist female monk but to be ordained, she had to travel to Sri Lanka. As the Abbess of Thailand's first all-female monastery, she's now offering temporary ordination to other women.
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25'
Plan B: Abortion in America
United States - 2022
When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, millions of American women lost access to abortion. Fourteen states immediately criminalized abortions, including the republican stronghold of Alabama.
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20'
The Repeal
United States - 2022
In Amish communities in America, resistance to medical innovation is still prevalent. Despite campaigns in recent years to repeal religious exemption to vaccination, many Amish people are still resist change. In 2019, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo ended religious exemption to vaccination after a widespread measles outbreak. ‘The more I read about these vaccinations, the more I know it is not right in the eyes of God’, says one Amish man, whose children were banned from taking the school bus after refusing vaccination. ‘We are being told that the state feels they have a right in our churches and schools. It scares us’, says another.
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25'
Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee
Myanmar - 2022
At Thoo Mweh Khee Learning Centre in Tak province, western Thailand, refugees from Karen State in Burma are fighting back against the brutal Burmese regime - through education. This documentary explores how the Karen people have been persecuted and oppressed by the Burmese state in the course of the world's longest running civil war stretching back to 1949, and Thoo Mweh Khee's staff and students demonstrate how the extraordinary spirit of the Karen people has been able to endure in the face of genocidal violence.
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29'
Storm Chasers
United States - 2022
Violent storms claim lives and cost billions in damage in the US each year, but the exact triggers of a tornado are still unknown. A group of scientists are on a mission to uncover the secrets of tornadoes.
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25'
China's Hidden Children
China - 2022
Every year in China, an estimated 80,000 children are kidnapped by a parent. In the majority of cases, the father is the perpetrator - with mothers left desperately trying to reunite with their children.
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29'
Sweden's Gun Epidemic
Sweden - 2022
Sweden, widely regarded as a safe, progressive nation, has become the epicentre of gun violence in Europe. Last year alone, there were 342 shootings. What's driving the bloodshed in this Scandinavian country?
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13'
Florida's Anti-Woke Censorship
United States - 2022
Books that discuss race, sexual orientation or gender are being censored in the United States. Schools and libraries have become a political battleground between progressives and conservatives.