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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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1:24:07
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.
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1:18:50
The last generation of monks to have studied where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.
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57:14
The inspiring story of Irish surfing and how its pioneers found peace during The Troubles.
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54:27
After 9/11, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Many Afghans hoped for peace and democracy.
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54:05
While fighting in Afghanistan turned into a civil war, the Taliban emerged triumphantly.
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53:23
In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "Soviet Vietnam" began after a call for Jihad.
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54:04
Afghanistan opened to the world in the 1960s. When communists seized power, a war began.
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58:57
Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?