Documentary

  • © Stefan Wermuth
    Kettling of the Voices reveals the brutal tactics UK police have used to confine law-abiding civilians who are exercising their legal right to protest. Trapped for hours in horrific conditions without food, water or hygienic facilities,...
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  • © Stefan Wermuth
    Kettling of the voices
    Kettling of the Voices reveals the brutal tactics UK police have used to confine law-abiding civilians who are exercising their legal right to protest. Trapped for hours in horrific conditions without food, water or hygienic facilities,...
  • Beauties save the world
    Beauties save the world
    Fourteen women on a sailing boat, but this is no pleasure cruise. The Sea Dragon is taking them on a scientific expedition to the Caribbean. On a mission to explore the extent of plastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean, their main focus is the...
  • © Mike Blake
    High tech borders
    Over the past decade, the European arms industry has mushroomed. Weapons companies have convinced the EU to militarize its 9,000km of land borders, to protect the Union against a threat whose seriousness is virtually impossible to verify: illegal...
  • Children of the front
    Children of the front
    A bloody civil war broke out in the Central African Republic, leading to the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians. Orphaned children were recruited by both sides of the conflict. They were taught to fight, drugged and thrown into battle. Child...
  • © Brian Snyder
    In the path of resistance
    Two college students adventure along the proposed route of the KXL pipeline to meet those living on the frontlines. On the Gulf Coast, Black and Latin@ activists stand up for their communities, which are surrounded by refineries and chemical plants....
  • Migingo The Iron-clad Island
    Migingo: The Iron-clad Island
    Tiny Migingo is the most densely populated island in the world. In the middle of Lake Victoria, it’s home to Ugandan and Kenyan fishermen and their families. RT Doc’s Peter Scott paid a visit to find out how more than a...
  • We Love Gaza
    We Love Gaza
    After the Gaza Strip was heavily bombed in 2014, all that remained in many areas were ruins – which became a training ground for young free runners. The sport, also known as parkour, is particularly dangerous in debris-strewn Gaza, but the...
  • Murky Waters of Flint
    Murky Waters of Flint
    The city of Flint, Michigan has a water crisis. It’s been going on since 2014, when residents were switched to a cheaper supply but it took a year before the authorities admitted there was a problem. As a result, thousands were exposed to lead...
  • A Palestinian protester tries to hammer a hole through the Israeli barrier that separates the West Bank town of Abu Dis from Jerusalem, as another waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli troops © Ammar Awad
    Walls
    The world is increasingly more divided by walls. There are human beings on either side of them. Brilliant editing connects people living and working on different sides of decisive walls between Mexico/U.S., Spain/Morocco, Israel/Palestine and South...
  • Noam Chomsky © Majed Jaber
    Requiem for the American dream
    Requiem for the American dream is a definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most influential intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time - the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a...