The Delicate Balance, Part 1: Ecological Globalization
The industrialized world is responsible for most of the environmental devastation of the twentieth century. But an emerging middle class in countries like China and India have the potential to take an unprecedented toll on the environment because of...
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In India, where marriage is a must but AIDS carries a stigma, what are HIV-positive people to do?
After discovering India’s first case of HIV in 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon left a prestigious academic post to found India’s premier HIV/AIDS clinic....
Worlds Apart: Advantages of Wealthy Nations
Approximately ninety-six percent of research and development is carried out in the more economically advanced countries. These nations dominate innovation and the ability to transform technological breakthroughs into manufacturing processes.
Light Fly, Fly High
Thulasi, a young Indian woman in her twenties, is literally willing to box her way out of poverty and into a better life. A Dalit or “untouchable” born outside of caste, she rejected her place on society’s lowest rung at an early age and was f...
Soul of India: Hindus and Muslims in Conflict
Home to more than a billion people, India struggles to remain the secular and tolerant society that Mahatma Gandhi envisioned. This Wide Angle documentary focuses on India’s increasingly powerful Hindu nationalist movement, the specter of religiou...
Fashion Victims: Textile Toxins in a Global Industry
Social awareness may be the latest fashion trend as an increasing number of Western consumers demand eco-friendly products, created under worker-friendly conditions. But textile toxins that have been banned in Europe are still used in Asia, causing ...
Taapar (Scorched)
In a predominantly agrarian society, providers of food to millions struggle to eat and are often forced to kill themselves. Through the story of Raj Singh, a marginal peasant, and Jaswant, the tiller who consumed poison, but, eventually didn’t die...
Pink Saris
“A girl’s life is cruel...A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women (SISTERS...
Fashion Victims
The Australian Broadcasting Company made this film shortly after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, which killed over 1000 factory workers. The film presents the human consequences of that disaster and focuses on the connection o...