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Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees 6 min
Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees
6 min · A 360° illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini. Scroll to the right as the story progresses.
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover 9 min
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover
9 min · Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was...
Hawaii's Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands 5 min
Hawaii's Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
5 min · With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group...
Chalk Girl - The Protester at the Heart of Hong Kong's Democracy Movement 25 min
Chalk Girl - The Protester at the Heart of Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
25 min · Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old...
Chelsea Manning's Extraordinary Legacy Explained 3 min
Chelsea Manning's Extraordinary Legacy Explained
3 min · To coincide with Chelsea Manning’s release from Fort Leavenworth military prison, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington and Manning’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, explain the...
Anywhere but Westminster - Is This the Weirdest Election Ever? 11 min
Anywhere but Westminster - Is This the Weirdest Election Ever?
11 min · John Harris and John Domokos start a five-week tour of the UK in the crucial battleground of south-west England.  From the Brexit heartlands of Cornwall to remain-voting Bristol, they...
Following the Route of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through 3 States 23 min
Following the Route of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through 3 States
23 min · After Trump's revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, some communities along its route are getting ready to fight back. Others see a promise kept by the US president to 'make...
The Valley Rebels - The French Farmer Helping Refugees Cross Europe 25 min
The Valley Rebels - The French Farmer Helping Refugees Cross Europe
25 min · Cédric Herrou is a farmer who supports and houses African refugees in the alpine village of Breil-Sur-Roya in southern France. Some regard him as a heroic good samaritan, but others –...
The Internet Warriors 21 min
The Internet Warriors
21 min · Why do so many people use the internet to harass and threaten people, and stretch the freedom of speech to its limits? Director Kyrre Lien meets a global group of strongly opinionated...
Ireland's Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims 15 min
Ireland's Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims
15 min · Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She...
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children? 3 min
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children?
3 min · The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of...
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago 2 min
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago
2 min · In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern. It warned that trends in global temperatures raised serious risks of famines, floods and climate...
The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List 5 min
The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List
5 min · When a plot by a pro-white militia to bomb a Somali mosque in Kansas was foiled by the FBI last October, the aborted conspiracy received little national coverage - nor did it make Donald...
Artificial Ethics and the Search for Intelligence 5 min
Artificial Ethics and the Search for Intelligence
5 min · How to stop a robot turning evil.
Hans Rosling Brilliantly Explains Complexity of Population and Resource Issues Using Simple Tools 3 min
Hans Rosling Brilliantly Explains Complexity of Population and Resource Issues Using Simple Tools
3 min · Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the...
Justice for Adama - The Family Protesting Police Brutality in France 14 min
Justice for Adama - The Family Protesting Police Brutality in France
14 min · Adama Traoré died in police custody last year. His family's struggle for justice has put police brutality back under the spotlight in France and his older sister Assa is leading the...
Berets, Badges and BLM - Meet The Radical Monarchs 21 min
Berets, Badges and BLM - Meet The Radical Monarchs
21 min · Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in...
Cassetteboy vs. Brexit 2 min
Cassetteboy vs. Brexit
2 min · Mashup artist Cassetteboy presents his take on one of the biggest news stories of the year, shining a humorous light on Brexit. The video lampoons a host of Conservative MPs - David...
The 24-Hour Emergency Hotline for Syrian Refugees 7 min
The 24-Hour Emergency Hotline for Syrian Refugees
7 min · Mohammed Abu Amar runs a makeshift 24-hour helpline from his flat in Hamburg, guiding scared refugees fleeing the violence in Syria across the water to Europe.  Despite losing the use...
A History of The Far Right in Britain 10 min
A History of The Far Right in Britain
10 min · From Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in the 1930s through to the National Front, the British National party and the English Defence League, the far right in Britain has been part of the...
Under the Surface - Naomi Klein and the Great Barrier Reef 10 min
Under the Surface - Naomi Klein and the Great Barrier Reef
10 min · In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the award-winning writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact...
Kids Killed by Guns: America's Daily Nightmare 3 min
Kids Killed by Guns: America's Daily Nightmare
3 min · On an average day in America, seven children and teenagers will be shot dead.Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - 23 November 2013. Ten children died that...
Edward Snowden Makes Moral Case for Presidential Pardon 6 min
Edward Snowden Makes Moral Case for Presidential Pardon
6 min · NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tells the Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill why he should be granted a pardon by the US government. He also discusses the dangers of Donald Trump’s rhetoric on...
Ash and Oil: Tar Sands and The Costliest Natural Disaster in Canadian History 9 min
Ash and Oil: Tar Sands and The Costliest Natural Disaster in Canadian History
9 min · Fort McMurray residents were forced to flee a huge wildfire that destroyed much of their city in Canada's Alberta province in May 2016. About 88,000 residents were evacuated from the...
When American Police Bombed Black Citizens 4 min
When American Police Bombed Black Citizens
4 min · On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the Move compound, killing 11 people, including five children, and destroying an entire neighborhood. The countercultural group lived...
Erdoğan's Crackdown: 'Free Speech Is Being Rebranded as Terrorism' 11 min
Erdoğan's Crackdown: 'Free Speech Is Being Rebranded as Terrorism'
11 min · Since Turkey’s failed military coup on Friday, more than 6,000 people in the civil service, security forces and military have been arrested. Writers and journalists fear that Turkey’s...
EU Referendum Explained: Brexit for Non-Brits 2 min
EU Referendum Explained: Brexit for Non-Brits
2 min · On 23 June Britain will decide by a referendum whether it will remain in the European Union or if it will leave - the so-called Brexit option. The opinion polls show the race is a close...
Fear, Money and Racism: What's Our Problem With Diversity on Screen? 11 min
Fear, Money and Racism: What's Our Problem With Diversity on Screen?
11 min · The lack of diversity in film and television dominated the debate during awards season. But away from the Oscars, the UK picture is also bleak: the film Bafta acting nominees have been...
All You Need to Know About FGM | End FGM 3 min
All You Need to Know About FGM | End FGM
3 min · As the world marks International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF figures reveal that 70 million more women than previously thought have been cut. The UK's...
A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement 3 min
A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement
3 min · Take the 360 degree video experience of solitary confinement in US prisons, which places viewers in a virtual segregation cell they can explore and interact with. It highlights the...
Hillsborough: Anatomy of a Disaster 12 min
Hillsborough: Anatomy of a Disaster
12 min · As the jury return their verdict at the inquest into the lethal crush at Hillsborough in 1989, David Conn analyses the evidence with the help of recently released footage from the day...
What Has the European Convention on Human Rights Ever Done for Us? 4 min
What Has the European Convention on Human Rights Ever Done for Us?
4 min · After Theresa May says Britain should leave the European convention on human rights, Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani expose the problems in the Conservative plan...
We Should Be More Afraid of Computers Than We Are 3 min
We Should Be More Afraid of Computers Than We Are
3 min · As sophisticated algorithms can complete tasks we once thought impossible, computers are seeming to become a real threat to humanity. Whether they decide to pulp us into human meat...
Exploitation, Exploitation, Exploitation: a Property Show for Millennials 4 min
Exploitation, Exploitation, Exploitation: a Property Show for Millennials
4 min · Are you a hard-working young professional thinking you can't afford to rent in London? Well, you're right. In this special edition of Exploitation, Exploitation, Exploitation, presenters...
Life Goes on in Damascus: 'We Cannot Give up and Lose Our Hope' 8 min
Life Goes on in Damascus: 'We Cannot Give up and Lose Our Hope'
8 min · Five years on from the start of Syria’s civil war, Sean Smith meets the people determined to live and work in Damascus, a city of relative peace despite the battles raging on its...
The Epic Journey of a Refugee Cat to Find His Family 2 min
The Epic Journey of a Refugee Cat to Find His Family
2 min · Kunkush the cat was a beloved member of a family who became refugees when they fled Iraq for the safety of Europe. Travelling through Greece, family and cat became separated. Kunkush was...
The Last Job on Earth: Imagining a Fully Automated World 3 min
The Last Job on Earth: Imagining a Fully Automated World
3 min · Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists. While we can’t predict the future, we can imagine a world without work – one where those who own the...
Social Mobility Is A Sham - Equality Is Key 3 min
Social Mobility Is A Sham - Equality Is Key
3 min · We are told that social mobility is the cornerstone of a fair society. A just nation is where talent is all you need to get the the top. But, argues Matthew Taylor, social mobility in an...
Egypt's Youngest Political Prisoner, Five Years Since the Revolution 5 min
Egypt's Youngest Political Prisoner, Five Years Since the Revolution
5 min · Mahmoud is imprisoned in Egypt for wearing an anti-torture T-shirt. On 25 January, two years since Mahmoud's arrest, and five years since the revolution in 2011, the law states he must...
The One Question You Can't Ask at the World's Biggest Gun Show 5 min
The One Question You Can't Ask at the World's Biggest Gun Show
5 min · Shot Show is the largest gun trade show in the world, with over 60,000 attendees and dealers showcasing the latest in firearms technology.
George Monbiot Meets David Attenborough: 'Environmentalism Is a Duty, Not an Interest' 5 min
George Monbiot Meets David Attenborough: 'Environmentalism Is a Duty, Not an Interest'
5 min · Sir David Attenborough tells George Monbiot that the British public is better informed about the environment than ever before, in part thanks to television. He discusses his new...
Is Inequality an Unavoidable Fact of Life? 2 min
Is Inequality an Unavoidable Fact of Life?
2 min · It’s easy to think that inequality is inevitable but, says Danny Dorling, we are living in extraordinary times. The overall wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK has doubled in...
US Police Killed 1134 People in 2015 - Will 2016 Be Any Different? 2 min
US Police Killed 1134 People in 2015 - Will 2016 Be Any Different?
2 min · The killing of Mike Brown in August 2014 made the world wake up to police gun use in America. But when the Guardian began looking for reliable data on how many civilians are killed by...
Gary Neville's Homeless Hotel: What Happened Next 5 min
Gary Neville's Homeless Hotel: What Happened Next
5 min · Back in October, a group of homeless people occupied a hotel, the former Manchester Stock Exchange building, which was awaiting refurbishment.  The squatters expected to be promptly...
The County: What Happens After Police Kill Someone You Love? 13 min
The County: What Happens After Police Kill Someone You Love?
13 min · When someone dies after an encounter with law enforcement, he leaves behind parents and children, loss and confusion. What’s to be done when those people sworn to protect you are the...
Meet the Young Supporters of Sweden's Far Right 10 min
Meet the Young Supporters of Sweden's Far Right
10 min · Sweden’s liberal identity is under attack. As increasing numbers of refugees enter the country, anti-immigrant violence is rising.  And the Sweden Democrats, a radical nationalist group...
The Power of Privacy - Exploring Privacy in the Networked World 32 min
The Power of Privacy - Exploring Privacy in the Networked World
32 min · Journalist Aleks Krotoski discovers how mobile technology, photography and even the humble chimney have changed the way we think about privacy.
South Africa's Victims of Xenophobia: 'We Are Not Rebels, We Are Refugees' 13 min
South Africa's Victims of Xenophobia: 'We Are Not Rebels, We Are Refugees'
13 min · Nearly 300 foreign nationals were killed in South Africa between 2008 and 2015 in a wave of xenophobic violence. Two refugees, Congolese Alex and Burundian Emile, describe the trauma...
Is This the Third Intifada? 8 min
Is This the Third Intifada?
8 min · As deadly violence escalates across Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Guardian's Phoebe Greenwood travels to the West Bank to ask why now - and why Palestinian women are...
Police Brutality in America Should Come as No Surprise says Bryan Stevenson 3 min
Police Brutality in America Should Come as No Surprise says Bryan Stevenson
3 min · When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and...
Ten Years after Katrina: 'I Thought That Was It for New Orleans' 20 min
Ten Years after Katrina: 'I Thought That Was It for New Orleans'
20 min · It was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very...
The Jeremy Corbyn Effect: 'Jez We Can' 8 min
The Jeremy Corbyn Effect: 'Jez We Can'
8 min · John Harris charts the rise of Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn and his effect on politics from one of the summer's big gatherings of the left, the Tolpuddle festival, to the streets of marginal...
Can The Sun Cool Down The Earth? 1 min
Can The Sun Cool Down The Earth?
1 min · Every hour, enough sunlight blasts the earth to power humanity for a year. By 2050, across the entire world, solar energy could power our computers, phones, lights, hot water – anything...
Modern Slavery: Thai Fishing Industry Turns to Trafficking (2015 by The Guardian) 1414 min
Modern Slavery: Thai Fishing Industry Turns to Trafficking (2015 by The Guardian)
1414 min · A Guardian investigation has linked Thailand's fishing industry with the vast transnational trafficking syndicates profiting from the misery of some of the most persecuted people on...
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash 11 min
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash
11 min · Would you stop showering if it meant that was the only way you could keep eating beef? California's ongoing drought needs radical action. But in a state dependent on water-hungry meat...
My Hijab Has Nothing to Do with Oppression. It's a Feminist Statement 3 min
My Hijab Has Nothing to Do with Oppression. It's a Feminist Statement
3 min · Hanna Yusuf asks why a simple piece of clothing is seen as the very epitome of oppression. She says many women find empowerment in rejecting the idea that women can be reduced to their...
Nas Presents the Real Hip-Hop 5 min
Nas Presents the Real Hip-Hop
5 min · Rapper Nasir 'Nas' Jones and director Adam Sjoberg take us on a world tour of breakdancing in the most unexpected places, as we visit the slums, shanty towns and ghettos of the world...
The Superheroes Battling to save Legal Aid 6 min
The Superheroes Battling to save Legal Aid
6 min · Wham! Bash! Pow! The superheroes battling to save legal aid. An animated superhero adventure film pitting three audacious lawyers against the justice minister, Chris Grayling. This...
After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza 2 min
After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza
2 min · In response to graffiti artist Banksy's Gaza tourist video, the Gaza Parkour team show us what real life is like there and their dreams beyond the border. To the sounds of Palestine's...
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt) 10 min
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt)
10 min · This is an edited excerpt the feature length documentary This Changes Everything.
Caught in Conflict: Women in Pakistan 8 min
Caught in Conflict: Women in Pakistan
8 min · Discreet and often in disguise, for five years renowned photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina collected the stories and pictures of women surviving conflict on the borders and in the cities...
Death At Sea: Syrian Migrants Film Their Perilous Voyage To Europe 8 min
Death At Sea: Syrian Migrants Film Their Perilous Voyage To Europe
8 min · This is the story of five friends - Moaaz, Majd, Rasha, Kinan and Khalid - who fled war-torn Syria to embark on a perilous trip to reach Europe. Not all of them made it. So far this year...
The NSA and Surveillance Made Simple 3 min
The NSA and Surveillance Made Simple
3 min · Confused about the NSA revelations? Do you wonder how this affects you? Why spies have been monitoring Facebook, Gmail and Skype? And even if we are being watched online, how does that...
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