Film Library: Human Rights

NO CHILD IS BORN A TERRORIST (00:21:23)

• JUNE 2007

Zacharia Zubeidi, head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs brigade in Jenin, has survived four assassination attempts by Israeli forces. While interviewing him, I expected to be gunned down at any moment.

MY THREE SWAMIS (00:11:26)

• NOVEMBER 2006

I came to India looking for a sage. I found it hidden in the souls of three adolescent girls sold into slavery. Meet the Rescue Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to freeing girls from Mumbai brothels.

GHANA SLAVE DUNGEON (00:04:31)

• JULY 2005

Built by European traders in the 17th century, Ghana's Cape Coast Castle was the point of departure for the countless numbers of Africans who were sent to the New World as free labor for the colonies. Join Explore founder Charles Annenberg Weingarten on a virtual tour of the slave dungeon, and witness the horrific conditions the captives were forced to endure while waiting to be sent across the Atlantic.

THE FAULT LINE (00:08:21)

• JUNE 2007

In the Occupied Territories of the West Bank, barriers to communication inevitably mean barriers to peace. In this compelling video, Charles Annenberg Weingarten and his crew make their first venture into the West Bank, landing in the contentious border town of Gilo. When Charlie attempts to interview an elderly woman — one of Gilo's last Palestinian holdouts — he quickly discovers that in such a politically charged landscape, communication is never neutral.

THE SWORD AND THE MEDIA (00:02:18)

• JUNE 2007

While traveling through Jordan's vast desert, Charles Annenberg Weingarten is invited into the home of a wise Bedouin man. Listen as the man gives his simple explanation of how Islam's message, once spread by the sword, can now be shared through a tool of peace.

HEBRON (00:07:37)

• JUNE 2007

In Hebron, a human rights organization called B'Tselem is giving children video cameras to document their daily lives, hoping that it will lessen violence between Palestinians and Jews.

RESCUE FOUNDATION VOL. 2 (00:04:49)

• NOVEMBER 2006

I came to India looking for a sage. I found it hidden in the souls of three adolescent girls sold into slavery. Meet the Rescue Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to freeing girls from Mumbai brothels.

RURAL WOMEN (00:03:36)

• APRIL 2006

Women in rural China have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Wu Qing at the Development Center for Rural Women believes that empowering women with the idea of equality, giving them out-of-home work skills, and instilling a sense of social responsibility will increase their feeling of self-worth and improve quality of life. To plant the desire for knowledge, the center also started a grassroots literacy program.