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A retired US President, a motley crew of public health veterans, former child soldiers, and local volunteers traverse political minefields, treacherous terrain, and bloody civil war to chase after a worm.

A modern odyssey into the heart of Africa at the historic moment when Sudan, the continent's largest country, is being divided into two separate states.

Real life "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers overcame a life of drugs and violence to become a symbol of hope for the children of Africa. Explore the life of this missionary who preaches justice with compassion and an iron fist.

South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.

An ordinary day in the lives of four girls, from morning to bedtime, at school and at home with their families, teachers and friends.

Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border.

This is the story of the last voices of the Earth.

No Parents. No Food. No Future. Stranded in Sub-Saharan Africa, orphaned by an AIDS epidemic, thousands of children are left on their own, in need of a shepherd to save them.

Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum travels the world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to state their case.

Kiden is a girl in South Sudan going to school. Conflict arises when her Mother wants her to get married instead of finishing school.

Zachariah Char, a Sudanese "Lost Boy" featured in the New York Times, returns to South Sudan and his home village of Duk Padiet to search for his mother and father - 24 years after fleeing the country during a civil war.

A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.

Uganda, 1989. A young rebel who claims to be visited by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a movement against the central power: the LRA, The Lord's Resistance Army. An "army" that grew by kidnapping teenagers - more than 60 000 over 25 years - of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Michael, a group of friends, were among these teenagers, kidnapped at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normality, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they don't fully understand, they are forever the wrong elements which society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the central African jungle, the Ugandan army continues to hunt down the scattered rebels left of the LRA. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.

Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role... Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas investigates land grabbing and its impact on people's lives. Pursuing the truth, we meet investors, development bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and evicted farmers deprived of their land.

In one of the largest trials ever in Sweden, oil billionaire Ian Lundin and former CEO Alexandre Schneiter stand accused of complicity in war crimes in connection with oil exploration in Sudan between 1999 and 2003. But, plaintiffs and witnesses have been intimidated and subject to serious violence in order to stop them from testifying in Stockholm. Swedish police spent five years investigating the former executives for obstruction of justice but closed the investigation in 2023. Nobody was charged. Then, two investigative journalists receive a report, compiled by a network for witness protection - listing hundreds of attempts to silence those who are going to testify in the ongoing process against the oil company executives. The report depicts threats, violence, gang rape and death. Some of the suspected perpetrators are known by the victims - but for whom do they work? Through interviews with witnesses, accused perpetrators and a leak of confidential documents from within the Lundin company, the journalists uncover a thrilling story of power, money and recklessness, with the aim of preventing victims of war crimes from finding justice.

Ruan Magan's film follows the lives of three missionaries who carry out their work in some of the most remote and dangerous areas of the planet.

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor sets out in a vintage biplane to retrace her flight. Her extraordinary eight and a half week journey from Cape Town to Goodwood is nearly 10,000 miles long and takes her through 15 African countries. From the beauty of the wilderness to the challenge of flying through war torn nations, Tracey faces many of the same challenges as her aviatrix predecessor. With aviation fuel scarce and with a top speed of only 95 miles an hour, her progress is slow and at times frightening. Accompanied in the aircraft by another pilot, her aircraft was fitted with satellite navigation which made the trip far safer.

In a remote part of South Sudan, the time honored routine of a young cattle herder is taken from him. He is then forced to face his new reality.

In war-torn South Sudan, Makur Diet knows all too well the horror of conflict. Over ten years ago, he lost his leg to a bullet. Makur was close to giving up, until one day he was given a prosthetic leg, and with it a new lease of life.

A college student and a village elder evacuate thousands to their homeland during the height of Sudan's civil war.

One mother's fight against the global sugar mafia.