Kofi Annan

George Soros é uma figura controversa. Ele ficou famoso por apostar contra o Banco da Inglaterra em 1992 — e, assim, ganhou 1 bilhão em apenas um dia. Judeu e ativista por causas como a liberdade de imprensa e os direitos civis para minorias, Soros usa seu dinheiro para resolver os problemas e é criticado por ideólogos de esquerda e de direita. O documentário acompanha o bilionário em viagens pelo mundo, revelando sua história: como a experiência de sobreviver ao Holocausto deu origem à sua luta contra o ódio e o autoritarismo.

The life and legacy of Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spans fifty years of American foreign policy, is told in this documentary from Holbrooke's eldest son David.

Whoopi Goldberg narra a incrível história de Kevin Clash, que iniciou sua jornada em um evento de bairro e teve seu ápice ao criar o personagem Elmo de “Vila Sésamo”.

It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.

With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state" The film follows the determined and often desperate maneuvers to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). Focusing on the UN mission, the film cuts back and forth between the UN headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the "Crisis Room" as they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. In the background, but often impinging on peacekeeping decisions, are the painful memory of Rwanda, the worsening crisis in Iraq, global terrorism, and American hegemony in world affairs.

The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.

Ghosts of Rwanda marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, this documentary offers eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. FRONTLINE illustrates the failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unchallenged by the global community.

A partir da polêmica decisão da Suprema Corte de Justiça americana concluindo que uma corporação, aos olhos da lei, é uma "pessoa", são analisados os poderes das grandes corporações no mundo atual. A exploração da mão-de-obra barata no Terceiro Mundo e a devastação do meio ambiente são alguns dos fatos explorados, que entrevistam presidentes de corporações como a Nike, Shell e IBM, além de Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman e Michael Moore.

This documentary follows the life of Kofi Annan, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Secretary General of the United Nations. With unprecedented access, filmmakers follow Annan as he accepts the Nobel Prize, struggles to get food to Afghans threatened with starvation, travels to Tokyo and Thailand to raise funds and garner support for the interim government in Afghanistan, and celebrates East Timor's new independence.