Given Tammy Duckworth’s personal heroism as an Army veteran, her stunning recovery from injuries sustained in the line of duty, and her subsequent career as an influential US senator, it’s easy to see why Joe Biden earmarked her as a possible running mate during his Democratic presidential…
Set adrift from the mainland, Madagascar's inhabitants have evolved in lonely isolation, meaning they are unlike anything else on earth. From the tops of the tallest trees to the corners of the forest floor, the island's eastern side buzzes with the unexpected, the unpredictable, and the unforgettable.…
It's science time! Highlights Explore & Learn! videos combine educational segments with entertaining storytelling that will encourage young children's curiosity around science topics. In Energy and How We Use It, viewers will learn about electricity, wind power, and even robots! Highlights…
Countless rivers, including the Nile, Congo, and Zambezi, provide for the wildlife and people of Africa. From rivers that hide underground to vast sweeps of water that thunder over some of the most dramatic waterfalls in the world, these are waterways that have poems written about them—rivers that…
Madagascar's creatures have developed some of the strangest survival methods and physical adaptations Mother Nature has to offer. Rare and spectacularly striking, this curious collection of odd critters is unlike anything else on Earth. Thriving everywhere from the tangled forests of the east to…
When Halifax resident Holly Bartlett was found almost a kilometer from her condo, police quickly closed her case, calling her death an accident. They concluded that the 31-year-old woman, who was blind, wandered drunk and disoriented away from her building, crawling under a fence and up a cement structure…
There's a turf war in suburban Australia, with gangs drawing enemy lines across postcodes. As gangs encourage teenagers to display a fierce sense of loyalty to their local areas, Australia's young people are being attacked, sometimes killed, for wandering into the wrong neighbourhood. Yet behind…
A film from 1988, looking at the AIDS epidemic spreading through Africa at the time from an African perspective. In Africa, in a culture where gay sex and IV drugs are said to be rare, AIDS has spread fast through unsafe straight sex. Sufferers are interviewed without any attempt to hide identities.…
Une île : Saint Martin ; Une commune : Marigot. Deux quartiers séparés par un pont. D’un côté les hôtels 4 étoiles de l’autre, une population modeste et principalement noire. Un cyclone va venir bouleverser l’équilibre fragile de…
Le temps d’un concert, Calypso Rose, la reine incontestée du Calypso à Trinidad et Tobago, nous dévoile à presque 70 ans son parcours hors du commun. Calypso est tellement imprégnée par la musique de son île que l’histoire de sa vie et celle…
HUBERT JASOR fonde, en 1952,la première et longtemps seule librairie des Antilles françaises. Son ambition assumée : sortir la population de l’assimilation et de l’aliénation intellectuelles en rendant, pour ce faire, la culture antillaise accessible à tous.…
הדולפין - הקרנת הסרט (72 דק) + הקלטת מפגש עם הבמאי יונתן ניר (74 דקות) תקציר: סיפורו של מורד, נער מכפר ערבי במרכז הארץ שניתק את עצמו מבני אדם בעקבות תקיפה קשה שעבר. רגע לפני אשפוז במחלקה פסיכיאטרית הוא נלקח על ידי אביו המסור לטיפול עם דולפינים באילת. בעקבות הקשר המיוחד המתפתח בינו לבין הדולפינים,…
