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Doc World brings the best international documentaries from around the globe to an American audience. Presented on WORLD Channel and told with authentic voices, these stories will surprise, inform, and delight. The series, a unique and contemporary window into the realities of people and societies from many nations, is our viewers’ passport into the world’s films that they cannot see anywhere else.
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1:25:32
A Mumbai dancer and a 75-year-old teacher bond in a true story of passion, struggle, and triumph.
55:45
A gay Romani couple from rural Hungary chase an impossible dream: making a musical of their lives.
1:20:39
An intimate look at childhood in Japan through a year inside a Tokyo elementary school.
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A 13-year-old in Kenya investigates his father’s murder and uncovers a deeper climate crisis.
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55:16
A farmer journeys from Malawi to America to save her village from climate change.
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55:16
A Toronto carpenter builds shelters for the unhoused, igniting hope and a battle with the city.
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51:57
In rural Pakistan, a mother and daughter build a school where deaf youth find voice and future.
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1:24:07
An Afghan pop star and two Afghan Star hopefuls see their lives upended after the Taliban’s return.
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56:14
The Russia-Ukraine war from the perspective of Ukrainian women who have fled and stayed behind.
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1:27:23
In Hainan, China, young surfers aspire to join the national surf team and dream of the Olympics.
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1:32:46
Peacemakers call for an end to a war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
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1:15:52
Powerful cleric Khadim Rizvi has one mission: to preserve Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.