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Unlock untold stories with DOC WORLD, your weekly passport to award-winning international documentaries. Powerful, unfiltered storytelling sparks conversation, broadens horizons and deepens understanding. From cultural touchstones to urgent global challenges, DOC WORLD reveals our shared human experience.

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A Mumbai dancer and a 75-year-old teacher bond in a true story of passion, struggle, and triumph.
A gay Romani couple from rural Hungary chase an impossible dream: making a musical of their lives.
An intimate look at childhood in Japan through a year inside a Tokyo elementary school.
A 13-year-old in Kenya investigates his father’s murder and uncovers a deeper climate crisis.
A farmer journeys from Malawi to America to save her village from climate change.
A Toronto carpenter builds shelters for the unhoused, igniting hope and a battle with the city.
In rural Pakistan, a mother and daughter build a school where deaf youth find voice and future.
An Afghan pop star and two Afghan Star hopefuls see their lives upended after the Taliban’s return.
The Russia-Ukraine war from the perspective of Ukrainian women who have fled and stayed behind.
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.
Peacemakers call for an end to a war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
피스메이커스는 한반도와 그 민족을 분열시킨 전쟁의 종식을 촉구합니다.
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 a path to justice and healing be found after genocide, sexual violence and slavery?
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?
How does North Korea fulfill their nuclear agenda? By selling their people as laborers.
Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?
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.
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A 13-year-old in Kenya investigates his father’s murder and uncovers a deeper climate crisis.
A farmer journeys from Malawi to America to save her village from climate change.
A Toronto carpenter builds shelters for the unhoused, igniting hope and a battle with the city.
In rural Pakistan, a mother and daughter build a school where deaf youth find voice and future.
Award-winning global stories that spark conversation, broaden horizons, and deepens understanding.
An Afghan pop star and two Afghan Star hopefuls see their lives upended after the Taliban’s return.
The Russia-Ukraine war from the perspective of Ukrainian women who have fled and stayed behind.
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.
Before the trek to La Paz, Marcelo speaks the truth about why they must fight for their rights.