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DOC WORLD brings international documentaries from around the globe to a US audience. The films explore social concerns, cultural touchstones, political hot topics and environmental issues, revealing the commonalities and differences that peoples and cultures experience. Told with authentic voices, the series offers a unique and contemporary window into stories that surprise, inform and delight.

Feliza Ali Ramos speaks with a journalist about her experience as a person with a disability.
A group of people with disabilities treks across the Andes, battling for their human rights.
Feliza and Rose Mery break down the numbers on why a disability pension is achievable in Bolivia.
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A group of people with disabilities treks across the Andes, battling for their human rights.
A group of people with disabilities treks across the Andes, battling for their human rights.
A group of people with disabilities treks across the Andes, battling for their human rights.
In Hainan, China, young surfers aspire to join the national surf team and dream of the Olympics.
피스메이커스는 한반도와 그 민족을 분열시킨 전쟁의 종식을 촉구합니다.
Peacemakers call for an end to a war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
Powerful cleric Khadim Rizvi has one mission: to preserve Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
The last generation of monks to have studied where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.
The inspiring story of Irish surfing and how its pioneers found peace during The Troubles.
After 9/11, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Many Afghans hoped for peace and democracy.
While fighting in Afghanistan turned into a civil war, the Taliban emerged triumphantly.
In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "Soviet Vietnam" began after a call for Jihad.
Afghanistan opened to the world in the 1960s. When communists seized power, a war began.
Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?
How does North Korea fulfill their nuclear agenda? By selling their people as laborers.
Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale?
Can freedom - living life as a free person - be more frightening than enslavement?
Can a path to justice and healing be found after genocide, sexual violence and slavery?
In Montego Bay, young athletes prepare to compete in the island’s greatest sporting event.
In Hungary, activists fight for justice after their government has failed its citizens.
A vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail to America.
Follow the lives of three Bolivians working at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade.
A reporter's quest leads to shattering the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.
The story of David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the great Mexican artists of the 20th century.
A Black South African mother trains for leadership in her post-apartheid township.
Fleeing persecution, four LGBTQ+ refugees desperate to find a safe place to call home.
The guardians of the last herd of forest elephants who are threatened by war and poaching.
Cambodian American women break their silence to resurrect the memory of loved ones.
Exposing the realities of Afghan women struggling to maintain their hard-won rights.
Meet the women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform in Nicaragua.
A Mexican community must build a sustainable path for themselves and monarch butterflies.
A teen finds the strength to overcome his sense of abandonment and forgive his father.
Two stories of people fleeing extreme gang violence in Central America for a better life.
Sex is a taboo topic in India. 93-year-old Dr. Mahinder Watsa is trying to change that.
A family flees violence in Syria with the hopes of finding a safer future elsewhere.
Members of Pakistan's KPK Bomb Disposal Unit put their lives at risk for their people.
Ittetsu Nemoto is devoted to preventing suicides...but his work begins to take a toll.
KAYAK MAN and MUMBAI DISCONNECTED.
WOMEN SOLDIERS: TO SEE IF I'M SMILING AND THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY.
THE BIGGEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD and JAPAN: A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE.
Extras
A group of people with disabilities treks across the Andes, battling for their human rights.
The protestors travel 380 km from Cochabamba to La Paz in their wheelchairs and by foot.
Before the trek to La Paz, Marcelo speaks the truth about why they must fight for their rights.
For the first time, Miguel comes to realize his true value as a person with a disability.
In Hainan, China, young surfers aspire to join the national surf team and dream of the Olympics.
From Bolivia to China and beyond, dive deep into people's struggles and triumphs around the world.
In Hainan, China, young surfers aspire to join the national surf team and dream of the Olympics.
The creation of a surf program of young Chinese athletes with its eyes set on the Olympics.
Head coach Grant Thomas explains what China wants to achieve with its National Surf Team.
Surfers for China's National Team know opportunities and expectations keep the pressure on.