Art & Culture, Democracy, Freedom, Human Rights, Video
Film made by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Mahvash Sabet is a teacher and poet, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. She has been detained since 2008 for her faith and activities related to running the affairs of the Bahá’í religious minority in Iran. She is currently...
Art & Culture, Democracy, Freedom, Human Rights, International Day, Video
This video was made on the occasion of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (15/11/2013). Liu Xiaobo’s poem ‘You Wait for Me with Dust’ was read by 30 Flemish writers and 1 Sudanese poet....
Freedom, International Day, Video
Armistice Day in 1920 – funeral of Unknown Soldier as coffin is brought from France to London Cenotaph. Soldiers carry coffin out of (church?) building and load onto wagon. French soldiers. French cavalry rides toward camera on tree-lined road; 2 pairs of...
Freedom, History & Heritage, International Day, Video
Retrospective look at Armistice Day. “The greatest day in all history: How they took the news of Germany’s surrender in the largest cities of the world.” High angle shot of large crowd of people moving through a city street. “Armistice Day...
Democracy, Freedom, International Day, Video
The Tower of London has released previously unseen aerial footage of the Installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. The film captures the near complete installation from unique angles, as a...
Freedom, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
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 hiding, as a refugee in China. Hers is a...
Diversity, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, Migration, TED, Video
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or four “origins” — meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing...Business, Democracy, Economics, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Political, Poverty, Website
A Piketty guide for lifelong learners. When Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics. A fair portion of...