When fighting broke out between Serbs and Croats in 1991, the Zagreb fairgrounds became a nerve center for Croatia’s war mobilization. At first, it served as a recruitment point for the police reserve forces.

The camcorder wasn’t developed to revolutionize human rights activism, but as this documentary demonstrates, this is precisely what it has done. Highlighting the work of several independent video activists worldwide (including Prague videographer Ondrej Cakl and his footage of Czech neo-Nazi skinheads), Seeing is Believing showcases Filipino filmmaker and activist Joey Lozano and his work helping an indigenous tribe in the Philippines resettle their native land.

In 1984, seven Jewish families established a makeshift settlement at Tel Rumeidah, which archeologists had determined to be the site of the Biblical city of Hebron, the place where the Patriarchs Abraham, Issac, and Jacob once lived.

In June 2000, a truck operating for the US-owned Yanacocha gold mine spilled 151 kilograms of liquid mercury in the quiet Andean mountain village of Choropampa. The spill poisons the village and causes widespread illness.

An inside look at the workings of the East German Ministry for State Security – the infamous Stasi. In this fascinating exposé, nine former top Stasi officials reveal the day-to-day workings of one of the most feared and pervasive secret services in the world.

From 1969-1999, over 1,000 people, the vast majority of them black, died in police custody in the UK. No one has ever been prosecuted for these crimes. This powerful condemnation of endemic racism in the London police force tells the story of the families of black people killed by the police and their ongoing struggle for justice.

Afghanistan through the eyes of an international team of doctors working with the Italian NGO Emergency. The film begins just prior to the September 11 attacks and the US retaliation against the Taliban.

In the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “The Tibetan struggle is the struggle between the power of truth and the power of the gun. The power of truth will always remain. The power of the gun, the power of force, in the long run becomes weaker and weaker.

A shocking exposé of the extent to which children throughout the world are forced to take up arms. From Sudan to Uganda, Burma, Colombia, Sierra Leone, and countless other conflict zones, children under 18 and very often as young as eight are kidnapped or coerced into fighting for a cause they cannot understand.

Sex trafficking enslaves as many as 40 million women and girls worldwide. This daring exposé, filmed with great risk in the military dictatorship of Myanmar, tells the stories of four Burmese prostitutes and their struggle to rebuild their lives.

The civil war in Angola between the government and UNITA rebels has waged for over 27 years, and diamonds are the principle source of financing for both sides. In theory, the UN has banned all trade with UNITA diamonds.

Illegal immigrants leave their homes to escape war, persecution, or to seek a better life. This informative documentary reveals the hardships they must endure as they seek the “promised land” of western Europe.

Since the September 11 attacks, it has become common in the West to hear talk of a “clash of cultures.” But there is no single culture of Islam. Filmmaker Thierry Michel travels to Iran, birthplace of the Islamic Revolution, to witness firsthand the complexity and contradictions of Iranian life.

In April 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces launched a major military operation against the refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank. The army undertook the operation to combat militants who operated there, but the camp was also home to over 14,000 civilians.

They say that everyone who lives in Northern Ireland has been touched by the “Troubles.” In this land of 1.2 million people, the sectarian violence that has gripped the country as far back as the 1600s is personal.

The Kronen Zeitung holds the distinction of being the most widely read newspaper per capita in the world: 3 million of Austria’s 8 million citizens read the Krone every day. In a series of interviews with Krone staff, the friendly surface of the tabloid’s well-crafted populism and hometown appeal is pulled back to reveal its right-wing agenda of anti-immigration and law-and-order policies.

Belarus is a country that usually doesn’t make the headlines. But Alexander Lukashenko, who rules Belarus with an iron fist, has turned the country into a police state reminiscent of the worst periods of the USSR.

In 1992, Lalit Vachani made the film The Boy in the Branch, exploring the indoctrination of young Hindu boys into the RSS, the “military wing” of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, currently the ruling party in India.

A chilling look at the modern development of suicide attacks and the justifications for this horrific act of terror. Suicide bombers are almost exclusively young people. Motivated by the feeling that they have nothing to lose, they are often brainwashed to view martyrdom as the ultimate goal of life.

In the 1950s, Czechoslovakia experienced a wave of Stalinist purges. Thousands were arrested as political prisoners, many of whom were sent to forced labor camps. This investigative documentary focuses on a group of prisoners who were interned at the infamous Jáchymov prison, where they were forced to work in uranium mines.

In 1939, Nicholas Winton, at the time a young English stockbroker, personally saved the lives of 669 children, mostly Jews, from Nazi-held Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This moving film chronicles his heroic act, which he kept secret for 50 years, not even telling his wife.