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Across the United States a white-hot revolution is taking place. Amidst near-daily headlines about climate change gloom, political gridlock, and hurricanes destroying entire electric grids, hope abides. Daring people from all walks of life lead the way to transition their city, home, or business to use electricity created by sun, wind, hydropower, and geothermal. Deeply rooted forces from politics to ignorance get in the way, but this diverse cast fight and prevails, and clean energy starts to become parts of U.S. towns and cities. Two “snapshots” show the stories from Las Vegas and Puerto Rico.

A documentary about ninth grade, by a ninth grader. "Late into my freshman year, I realized... It's almost over. I spent the whole year waiting for it to end, and when it was, I just wanted to go back. I guess that's what this is about."

This special will feature a sit-down interview with American hero Antoinette Tuff, whose bravery saved a Georgia learning Academy from a gunman. Also includes interviews with other key players involved in this story of an ordinary woman with extraordinary courage.

A look inside the underground punk rock scene in Osaka, Japan. With live concert footage from SK8NIKS, Flat Sucks, PiPi, By-Pass, Low Card de la morte, C.W. and more.

Eye TV born in Duque de Caxias. Hey worked between 1982 and 1984. It was a communitary Street tv. The exibition setup was mounted through a screen with projectors and televisions on the Square of the Clock in the center of the city of Duque de Caxias, installed in a metal cabin. There are no records of other initiatives with this characteristics before 1982, so Eye Tv is the first Community street Tv of Brazil.

Meysam, an adolescent from Tehran’s roughest neighborhood, has a dream to change his destiny through music, but his family disagrees.

Every family has a figure who captures the imagination of future generations of storytellers. For Camaran Henson, that figure is his grandfather, a former police detective he was convinced was immortal, like a superhero. Though his grandfather didn’t prove to be immortal, Camaran still considers him worthy of his legendary status — and a deserving focal point of continued storytelling. He came to StoryCorps to remember “Detective Simmons.”

OILMEN: Tales from the South Texas Oil Patch tells the story of the oil and gas industry and how an accidental discovery in 1854 transformed a once untamed frontier into what is now one of the richest oil producing areas in the nation. This one hour documentary depicts the risky adventures of early day wildcatters and adventurous businessmen who gambled everything in a quest for black gold.

In 2016, Christiane Arbesu embarked upon a journey to Cuba in order to discover the family and country she never knew. I AM ARBESU is the story of the reuniting of a family separated by politics and geography for 55 years.

Striking aerial drone footage and time-lapse techniques that were not available just a few years ago provide a look at Indiana as it has never been seen before. From hidden waterfalls and glacially carved gorges, through the canopy of an ancient forest, to one of the largest prairie restoration projects in the country, Indiana is still a wild place.

Hoosier Brew is about capturing the heart and soul of Indiana's craft beer industry. Over the past 15 years, Hoosier beer has become some of the most respected and admired beer in the world. Our goal with Hoosier Brew was to explore the culture, community, and industry that has grown over the last 25 years, and find out what makes Hoosier beer unique.

The reconstruction of all the events that were unfolding in the last days of Maidan was created by the anonymous group Jus Talionis Reconstruction Lab. It is a multi-screen projection (16 screens in total) of various videos and Internet streams synchronised to specific time points. The synchronised videos allow the viewer to watch different events happening in different corners of the Maidan as they occurred live. First part deals with the ambush of riot forces on a Maidan protesters march towards the parliament and the following siege of the Maidan on the 18.02.2014. The events begin at 15.39 and are covered till 22.00 without interruption. Second part reconstructs the mass shootings on the 20.02.2014 on the Maidan. Reconstruction begins at 08.53 and ends at 17.31 without interruption.

A documentary on film director Claude Berri’s life and career

The pressures of having to make an amazing film for TED sent this deadpan, deep-voiced, award-winning filmmaker into a crippling spiral of self-doubt and comic indecision.

In 1982 Juliet Butler became a journalist in Moscow. She met the siamese twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova who were used as human experiments. Juliet describes her involvement with them and their tragic life story.

Shunning comforts and risking their lives, the great prophets Elijah and Elisha stood fearlessly against pagan priests and kings who opposed the God of Israel. The Israelites fell into gross idolatry with sensuous fertility cults. With fiery words and powerful miracles the prophets were the voice of God. Join the adventure as Stephen Ray, best-selling author and popular Bible teacher takes you on an exciting journey in this new film in the Footprints of God series through Jordan, Israel, Sinai and Egypt. You'll witness God's power demonstrated through Elijah and Elisha, the conscience of the kingdom, as they confront the powers arrayed against them, preparing the way for Christ.

The Island of Vieques and its people were devastated by Hurricane Maria, bringing to light both the most beautiful and terrible parts of their way of life. This is their story.

When the Calais Jungle was taken down in 2016, 2000 lone refugee children were left abandoned. What happened to them next? Sue Clayton takes on the fight to get then to safety.

Film about Zikica Simic, famous Serbian radio host.

A communist poet and radical journalist, a secret State killing, an attempted revolution sparked in the village of Naxalbari at the Himalayan foothills. Setting out to tell the story of the slain revolutionary Saroj Dutta (lovingly known as comrade S.D.), the film gets drawn into a vortex of his tumultuous times, tracing turns and twists of the communist movement in India over three decades. A search by present-generation filmmakers, the film uses personal and public historical archives and conversations with rebels of the Naxalbari rebellion. Five decades later, the film holds a key to understanding the turbulent, audacious sixties and seventies in India and the world.

Explore one of the most ancient forests on Earth through the eyes of its youngest inhabitants. Follow a baby proboscis monkey, translucent spiderlings, and a captivating orchid mantis from infancy to adulthood in this vibrant jungle world.

E., an old-time hippie lost at the foot of an extinguished Patagonian volcano, decides to pay homage to his friend and mentor Albert Hofmann, the first person to synthesize, ingest and know the hallucinogenic effects of LSD. This creative documentary focuses on E's idea to carve Hofmann's head into a granite stone, a mixture of Greek initiation sanctuary and Mount Rushmore.

Dancing Grass captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient indigenous grain, is central to the livelihood of smallholder farmers and may be called the 'cereal core' of Ethiopian national food identity. A local elder provides the commentary for the sequence of events that unfold in the homestead, fields and neighbourhood of the author's eldest brother and family: the cutting of the 'dancing grass'; the drying and stacking; the threshing and winnowing; then the sale of teff in the local market; off with a donkey to the mill; cooking enjera for family and guests; coffee drinking and blessing; and finally the Mesqel fire, an Orthodox Christian celebration at the end of the rainy season.

In the dying days of World War II, a secret organization of Holocaust survivors plans revenge to kill 6 million Germans.

'Stumped' is a documentary about the survival and physical rehabilitation of a filmmaker who suddenly finds himself a quadrilateral amputee. It highlights the trials and triumphs of adapting to a world he never could have imagined, including his first stand-up comedy performance.

Glaciers have been distinctive features of the Icelandic landscape ever since human settlement on the island 1200 years ago. But since the early 20th century Iceland’s 400+ glaciers have been melting steadily, now losing roughly 11 billion tons of ice every year; scientists predict that all of Iceland’s glaciers will be gone by 2200. One of Iceland’s smallest known glaciers is named “Ok.” Not Ok is its story. This is not a tale of spectacular, collapsing ice. Instead, it is a little film about a small glacier on a low mountain--a mountain who has been observing humans for a long time and has a few things to say to us.

An internal battle is simmering among US Christians over whether climate change is a call to protect the Earth, the work of God to be welcomed, or does not exist at all.

From Buenos Aires to Prague. From training in public squares to the World Championship. This is the story of a group of men and women with a unique obsession: the HMB (Historical Medieval Battles). A brand new sport in which fighters face each other covered with armors and armed with axes, swords, helmets and a full arsenal. Choose your weapons and prepare yourselves, this is going to hurt.

'11 Days and a Wake Up' is a real true-life documentary about The Chosen Few and The Battle of Wanat where 9 soldiers were Killed in Action and 27 others seriously wounded. With only 11 days left in their 15-month combat deployment, Chosen Company was ordered to relocate 4 miles South to the city of Wanat and establish COP Kahler, named after their recent platoon leader Matthew Kahler, who was killed in action. For more than 8 hours, Chosen Company was surrounded and attacked by over 200+ Taliban Insurgents. The US Army and the Department of Defense has categorized The Battle of Wanat as the single deadliest, bloodiest, and largest loss of life battle in the 15-year long War on Terror. The story of The Chosen Few and The Battle of Wanat is now taught in all military colleges throughout the US including West Point. A Battalion of 3 Medal of Honor recipients, 2 DSC's, several Silver and Bronze Stars awards of Valor.

This documentary shares the stories, challenges and hopes of four families in Singapore living with a condition that leads to extremely fragile skin.

An insight into six months of life on tour with Maša Pavoković and Eva Kristina Filipčič, the managers of Koala Voice and persons from Porlock. The film crew follows the bands across Slovenia and internationally as the protagonists are reaching important milestones in their music careers.

A woman seeks to make the outdoors more accessible for fat people – just as they are and without shame. Armed with her slogan “Trails Not Scales”, she soon finds herself hosting events all over North America.

They've captured our imagination and are a source of childlike wonder, but what exactly are rainbows? Learn the science behind these weather phenomenon and how one day they might help pinpoint habitable planets in deep space.

Vekkula The Movie is Mika Koivusalo’s documentary of Vekkula, the legendary funhouse of the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki. The movie is a nostalgy-filled audiovisual journey into this house of surprises, its history and the history of Linnanmäki in general. The film contains plenty of archival footage of Vekkula and Linnanmäki.

Red Sox Report: 1918 – 100 Years Later looks back at a time when World War I overshadowed the team’s fifth championship in 16 seasons and left the future of baseball in doubt.

A singular anthropological essay film that observes the various nets we find across different contexts in Bahia (from fishing nets to delicate nets of lace), and the emotions and sensations associated with them. It continues to ponder how these nets materialize principles of connection, of filtering and of patterning. As the scope widens to the nets of longitude and latitude that encircle the globe, and of virtual networks like Grindr, Van de Port wonders aloud how connection, filtering and patterning play themselves out in his own life – as a filmmaker, as an anthropologist, as a-gay-man-in-love.

Could crash diets be the future of weight loss? This bold documentary tackles the obesity crisis head on, as scientists test a radical diet based on new research that could transform the way we lose weight forever.

Is the Albizia tree a destructive force, disrupting native ecosystems and causing economic damage, or the material that can awaken new paradigms through thoughtful design? PARADIGM NOW dives into the journey undertaken by architect Joey Valenti in pioneering Lika, a prototype that opens the door to sourcing timber locally, restoring native ecosystems, and designing for future island resilience. ​

Carlos Bosch is a renowned Argentine photographer whose work focuses on time and memory. Today, at 73, he presents a series of self-portraits that spark a debate about the role of images in our time.

This is a story about memories and first experiences; about friendship, weed, and a lot of pizza. A story about the underground youth.

In 1997, Darius Clark Monroe was a high school honor student who had never been in serious trouble. But soon after his 16th birthday, he robbed a bank in Stafford, Texas, at gunpoint with two of his friends. Seventeen years later, he sat down with David Ned, a customer who was in the bank during the robbery.

Ben Page sought an adventure of perfect solitude in the Canadian Arctic. Yet the harsh truths of travelling in such a formidable environment were a long way from the romanticisms of a Jack London book.

Documetary that covers the wargaming industry and the impact that it has on people's lives. The film follows four individuals as they how wargaming affects their lives in different ways: Andy Bryant, a British war veteran who turns to wargaming as an escape; Chris Nicholls, owner of a small business fighting to secure his family's future; and two young gamers Matt and Adam who travel across Europe in a bid to fulfill their dream of competing in an international tournament. The film also covers the history and evolution of the hobby with author Henry Hyde. Includes footage of Peter Jackson and interviews with Rick Priestley (creator of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000), legendary sculptors Alan and Michael Perry, Warlord Games co-founders Paul Sawyer and John Stallard, and others.

The motions and gestures of military riot police, slowed down while performed by dancers, are surprisingly beautiful. Menace and violence estranged from context and time looks eerily strange, and all too familiar. In this gallery piece, Isaac Chong Wai somehow anticipates, a year early, key images of the Hong Kong protests.

The film evokes stories and images from dissociative states, while drawing parallels to the research of chemist Humphry Davy (1788-1829) on the effects of laughing gas. Devised as a multi-layered audio-visual composition, the film merges past and present, oral history and sensory images, and a variety of analogue and digital processes.

An act of love for the American wild west. Lose yourself in these wild lands filmed on a 10-day trip from the south to the north of the United States across the West Coast.

Scottish film director James English spends a week living on the streets of Glasgow to investigate how homelessness affects those that live it and the people that dedicate their time to helping them.