Watch List

SUBJECT LINK: Changing Places

The Divide

The Divide: How Economic Division Creates Social Division tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor.

SUBJECT LINK: Changing Places

Bait

Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, holiday-homes and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions within the community to boiling point, with tragic consequences. 

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SUBJECT LINK: African Development

Ethiopia Rising

Ethiopia Rising is the story of how one man turned his barren environment into a lush Eden. For the last thirty years, Abu Hawi has fought tirelessly to protect the beautiful forests surrounding his village. Following the devastation of a long civil war, he planted over a million trees, mobilised an entire community to regenerate their environment and saved his village from certain extinction. 

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind 

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the best selling book and true story of William Kamkwamba. 

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

Hotel Rwanda

Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a Hutu, manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife (Sophie Okonedo) and their three children. But when Hutu military forces initiate a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul is compelled to allow refugees to take shelter in his hotel. As the U.N. pulls out, Paul must struggle alone to protect the Tutsi refugees in the face of the escalating violence later known as the Rwandan genocide.

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

Blood Diamond

As civil war rages through 1990s Sierra Leone, two men, a white South African mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a black Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou), become joined in a common quest to recover a rare gem that has the power to transform their lives. With the help of an American journalist (Jennifer Connelly), the men embark on a hazardous trek through rebel territory to achieve their goal.

SUBJECT LINK: Climate Change

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

An audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now. 

SUBJECT LINK: Climate Change

Before the Flood (2016)

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, BEFORE THE FLOOD presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change. 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Development

Slumdog Millionaire

From Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, comes the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" 

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

Last King of Scotland

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance (Oceans)

SEASPIRACY

Seaspiracy examines the global fishing industry, challenging notions of sustainable fishing and showing how human actions cause widespread environmental destruction. 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance

Sin Nombre

An unflinching tale of loyalty and redemption set against the harsh backdrop of modern Mexico, Sin Nombre interweaves two parallel stories; the first dealing with the struggles of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a beautiful Honduran woman desperately trying to escape to America with her family, the second following Casper (Edgar Flores), a tough gang member placed in an impossible situation when a violent retaliation turns his gang against him. 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance - Marine Piracy

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, Best Actor, 1993, Philadelphia; Best Actor, 1994, Forrest Gump), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. The two men are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips’ unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance - Migration

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use. Based on a true story. Directed by Sally El-Hosaini.

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

INVICTUS

2010 is the year of South Africa. Invictus brings an epic story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. 

Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africas underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance (Oceans)

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. 

SUBJECT LINK: African Development

A United Kingdom

On the eve of his return from his studies in London to Bechuanaland where he is to become king, Prince Seretse Khama falls in love and marries Ruth Williams, a white woman from south London. Bringing Ruth home causes a major international outcry. Caution:  More romance than Geography!

SUBJECT LINK: Tectonics

The Impossible

A powerful story based on one family's experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

SUBJECT LINK: Climate Change

The 11th Hour Trailer

The 11th Hour is a new documentary from Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. Join the action at www.11thhouraction.com

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance

Human Flow

In Ai Weiwei's Human Flow, today's massive global migration becomes a powerful visual expression - a hypnotic outpouring that defies invisibility - expressing both the staggering scale and scope of the refugee emergency and its profoundly personal human impact. Filmed in 23 countries over the course of more than a year, the film captures the condition of today's more than 65 million forcibly displaced individuals who fled their homes in search of new lives. Human Flow comes at a crucial time, when tolerance, compassion, trust and engagement are needed more than ever.

SUBJECT LINK: Global Development

Slumdog Millionaire

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" 

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance

Globalization - How crises change our world (1/2) | DW Documentary

The battle for raw materials. Climate change. Digitalization. These things have rapidly changed the world. Who wins, who loses? What is yet to come? This film looks at how lives are shifting, in seven regions of the world.

SUBJECT LINK: Global Governance

Globalization - How crises change our world (2/2) | DW Documentary

The battle for raw materials. Climate change. Digitalization. These things have rapidly changed the world. Who wins, who loses? What is yet to come? This film looks at how lives are shifting, in seven regions of the world.