WATCH: My escape from North Korea

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14 to begin a life in hid...
by Natasha Lipman
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Ice Bucket Challenge, meet Ukraine’s ‘blood bucket’ challenge

A group of European youths are attempting to draw attention to the conflict in Ukraine by putting a gory twist on the infamous Ice Bucket Challenge. This time around, the buckets are filled with metaphorical blood.
by Tetyana Lokot
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WATCH: The Peacewalker – Changing The World One Step At A Time

Monk Ashin Sopaka came from a poor family. This meant that as a child he spent a lot of time walking from one place to another. What started out as a side effect of poverty slowly translated into a movement for peace and freedo...
by Priyanka Mogul
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WATCH: Are Schools Killing Creativity?

“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education” In the TED talk below, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an...
by Natasha Lipman
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The top 4 most provocative documentaries

Since their advent, documentaries’ purpose has been to inform, and to make us think about things in new ways. In the quest to gather and record history, forever capturing moments in time, documentarians have travelled the glo...
by Brandon Engel
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Review: The Salt of the Earth

This month sees the UK release of The Salt of the Earth, the production from film-maker Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) that documents the life of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. Originally released in Frenc...
by Bryony Cottam
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WATCH: Man vs. Nature

The animated MAN is darkly comic, depicting the destructive nature of man, who exploits the planet and its species for his own selfish purposes. The video animation provides us with disturbing view of our species – a spe...
by Sneha Nanavati
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WATCH: Drones For Trees

With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
by Conor Sullivan
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WATCH: Dear Straight People…

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has estimated in 2011 that there are 9 million Americans who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. The Huffington Post has reported that a recent study ha...
by Priyanka Mogul
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