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Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decided to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrived in Kenya determined to discover the African continent. Until he reached the top of Mount Mulanje, Malawi, his last destination.

Actress Emma Hutton is determined to help find her friend Hope a perfect match but in doing so, she accidentally tramples on several hearts. When Emma realizes she herself has always loved her good friend Gray, Emma learns love works best when she doesn't meddle with it. A charming romance inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma."

With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba sets about building a wind turbine in his Malawian village.

In the war zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.

One member of a group of disillusioned British expatriates living on the banks of an African river decides to go down the river on his own.

Cape Town. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. Cautious at his vulnerability to his surroundings at first, he gains confidence and learns to adapt to the various cultures and their way of life. Step by step his incredible path unfolds and leads him through 15 countries of the African continent and to extraordinary encounters. His bicycle becomes his gateway to local life: it invites communication and enables him to found and support projects that promote rural youth. His conviction to travel by his own strength, camp in unimaginable places and rely on intuition, leads him to exceptional adventures, but also to acutely experience fundamental issues. Besides night-time encounters with lions or hippos and repeated malaria and typhus infections, he struggles with water provision, discrimination and corrupted officials. He still faces the ultimate challenge - riding 3.000 kilometers through the Sahara against the relentless North Wind. After a year, 15.000 kilometers and 15 travelled countries, having fallen in love with this multi-facetted world, his journey faces an unpleasant end - ironically by people that would protect him against the "dangerous" continent.

A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.

Harsh seasons determine life or death, testing creatures against crocs, droughts, and more. Survival demands cunning as predators lurk in waters and along banks. In this predator's world, witness the struggle for life unfold.

A young girl who lives with her grandmother is forced to sell bananas in the streets for survival after her school is closed due to sanitation issues and corruption. We see her struggling, as she suffers various forms of abuse from the ones who are supposed to protect her.

Dirty Coin delves into the controversial world of bitcoin mining. The film challenges conventional wisdom about Bitcoin's environmental impact and explores how the cost to mine drives significant improvements in energy infrastructure.

A retired Los Angeles policeman (Wayne Crawford) travels to Africa to work as a bodyguard for a rare black rhino.

Shines a light on the stigma and discrimination suffered by women living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi.

It follows the journey of four young people as they uproot their lives and move from Dzaleka Refugee Camp to Canada for post-secondary education. In the first half of the film, the young students are preparing for what their new lives might look like and managing expectations for what is to come. On the other side of the world, their sponsors are preparing for their arrival with a mixture of excitement and nerves. As the film progresses, the students arrive in their new home as permanent residents of Canada, and start to face the realities that this opportunity brings. The unique stories of Tamasha, Blaise, Anicet, and Elisa are portrayed in this documentary that seeks to inspire and move young Canadians to get involved with WUSC's Student Refugee Program.

A nature documentary reality series that focuses on African wildlife and its natural habitat featuring a safari tour guide named Ushaka who takes viewers on an adventure throughout the "dark continent".

CNN's International award-winning weekly show, will present from countries across the continent to take viewers on a journey through Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. A continent as seen through the prism of the mediums of art, music, travel and literature.

New Award-winning environmental Feature Documentary offers Hope and Solutions for our Planet.

Namuli is a community-backed film about the spirit of exploration and what happens when a team of rock climbers, biologists, and conservationists set off on an unconventional expedition into one of the world's least-explored and most-threatened habitats-- Mount Namuli, Mozambique.

Award-winning documentary about humanity's WISEST response to climate change, species extinction, the depletion of critical natural resources and income inequality. This independent documentary examines how our economic and financial system connects all these issues, and offers SOLUTIONS, which could be implemented immediately.

A longitudinal documentary following five young women from around the world as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional soccer players.

This is the story of a man's bravery to cover the world at war, and what it takes to get images published for the world to see. This is Jason P. Howe's story of survival and change.