After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.

The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.

A window into the world of Santeria - a uniquely Cuban religious tradition into which one must be initiated by a 'godmother' or 'godfather' -- and introduces us to practitioners of the religion ranging in age from their 40s to their late 90s.

Qiong Wang boldly explores her family's history and the ongoing consequences of China's one-child policy.

An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Pioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie.

Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.