The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become more widespread, dance and secular music are prohibited, musical instruments are destroyed, and musicians are forced to flee their homeland. The vibrant documentary MALI BLUES follows...

THE LAND BENEATH OUR FEET follows a young Liberian man uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia's past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights.

Hundreds of young revolutionaries take to the streets of Kinshasa when Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, refuses to relinquish power at the end of his second term. Protests are met with violence, but the battle for free elections and democracy cannot be repressed.

A SOCIAL CURE is a timely documentary that explores the successful campaign go combat aids in South Africa. Can you and your friends slow the spread of a devastating global disease? (and promote other positive behaviors?) A SOCIAL CURE tells the stories of five unique individuals as their lives intersect with the HIV epidemic in South Africa. These stories together reveal humanity's newfound ability to affect change through our own personal relationships....

Set during the 2014 Furious Flower conference, Furious Flower III offers the unprecedented opportunity to watch thirty-two of today’s leading African American poets reading from their work and discussing the critical issues shaping this vibrant poetic tradition.

From the initial sparks of revolution in Boston to the climactic Siege of Yorktown, this special paints a comprehensive picture of the African American experience during the Revolutionary War. 

An indelible tale of friendship and commitment set against the luminous beauty of the Central African Rainforest. Together, elephant behavioral biologist, Andrea Turkalo, and indigenous tracker, Sessely Bernard, will be tested by the realities of war and the limits of hope for the majestic animals they have committed their lives to study and protect.

Five couples engage in a life changing hike through Africa’s most pristine wilderness in this game of survival and elimination to reach civilisation.

Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. It attests to Africa’s sunny resilience to so much suffering and disease.

As more and more of us use and replace electronic devices, manufacturers have failed to offer solutions for how to deal with the resulting waste, and much of it is exported to a toxic dump in Ghana where scavengers do their best to salvage what they can. BLAME GAME investigates the murky world of global electronic waste disposal, where legal grey areas, a lack of investment in recycling, unscrupulous businesses and politicised application of the existing...