Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 national chess championships, the country’s best record.

Follow five members of a champion chess team from a below-the-poverty-line junior high in Brooklyn.

A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and "age out" of a unique and caring support system.

Study a public school for severely autistic minority boys and their options for independent living.

'The World Before Her' is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman leads a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.

Meet two Indian women: a pageant contestant and the leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls. 9/16/2013

Championships in China's Inner Mongolia. British players Terry, 81, who has been given a week to live, and Les, 91, a weightlifter and poet, are going for the gold. Inge, 89, has used table tennis to ...

Follow competitors in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China’s Inner Mongolia. 9/9/2013

Nominated for an Oscar®, '5 Broken Cameras' is a deeply personal first-hand account of life and nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village where Israel is building a security fence. The ...

Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz has pulled off a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967 - featuring the ...

A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their lives, work with their perceptual and behavioral differences in a "neurotypical" world.

Explore autism from the point of view of three autistic people: child, teenager and adult. 7/29/2013

'High Tech, Low Life' follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development.

Trail two of China’s first citizen-reporters as they document the underside of rapid development. 7/22/2013

'Only the Young' follows three unconventional Christian teenagers coming of age in a small Southern California town. Skateboarders Garrison and Kevin, and Garrison's on-and-off girlfriend, Skye, ...

Follow three unconventional Christian teenagers coming of age in a small Southern California town.

After spending decades in solitary confinement, what would you dream of? Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. When artist Jackie Sumell learns of his story, she ...

Venture inside the relationship of a solitary confinement prisoner and an artist who befriended him. 7/8/2013

The plight of undocumented immigrants at a detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, points up contradictions between compassionate social policies and intractable immigration laws.

Witness the plight of undocumented foreigners and the wardens at a detention center in Switzerland. 7/1/2013

Through the eyes of Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. 'Homegoings' paints a portrait of grieving families and a man who sends ...