An unflinching portrait of physical work in the 21st century. We take a glimpse inside the bloody and frenetic activity of the Port Harcourt meat market in Nigeria. Here cows and goats are brought to the slaughter – then cut, roasted and cleaned for sale. The slaughter yard offers a hellish vision of noise, blood and smoke.

The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning. This is the full list of the documentary films including synopses and trailers.

Behind the scenes of Madonna’s “W.E.” movie. A 23 minute long documentary about the filming of W.E. featuring interviews with Madonna and the cast of the film and behind the scenes footage.

Oscar-winning short film on the need for nuclear disarmament. This short film is comprised of a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in the USA.

The aphorism “The poor are always with us” dates back to the New Testament, but while the phrase is still sadly apt in the 21st century, few seem to be [...]

In 1979, violin virtuoso Isaac Stern embarked on a goodwill tour of Red China. Filmmaker Murray Lerner went along for the ride, and the end result was the unforgettable feature-length documentary From Mao to Mozart.

This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of [...]

As the United States began to withdraw from Vietnam, many Vietnamese women who’d borne children fathered by American servicemen feared for the safety of their offspring, as many Vietcong were extremely prejudiced against people of mixed racial heritage.

A documentary by Adam B. Ellick follows a Pakistani girl through a perilous six months as she loses her education, is forced into exile and faces an uncertain return back [...]

Each year half a million women around the world die in childbirth. Twenty percent of those deaths are in India. Most of the deaths are preventable with access to proper [...]

Eleven years in the making, FUEL is the in-depth personal journey of filmmaker and eco-evangelist Josh Ticknell, who takes us on a hip, fast-paced road trip into America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Check out infos and trailers of 2011 nominees.

Heroes looks at freelance miners in Ukraine who spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of exhausted coal mines to dig out a living for themselves.

We visit east Java in Indonesia – where men climb steep paths amid pungent vapours carrying a heavy load of sulphur rock from the mouth of a volcano.

An unflinching portrait of physical work in the 21st century. We visit the ship-breaking yard of Gadani in Pakistan where derelict vessels are beached and then dismantled for scrap metal – with a bare minimum of mechanical assistance.