The Full Report: Occupied and Imprisoned | Israel War on Gaza
Arrested and abused – a look at how thousands of Palestinians are being detained in Israel’s prisons. During Palestine’s 75 years under Israeli occupation, the…
The 10 best movies we saw at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
An image from the documentary “Daughters.” (Sundance Institute) Executive produced by Kerry Washington, “Daughters” culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail.…
Denmark: The future of tech and mental health | Mental Health
Mindset visits Denmark, where innovative technologies such as AI and VR are being used for mental health. Denmark is one of the world’s most digitised…
Spiritual healers as therapists? Inside South Africa’s mental health crisis | Mental Health
Mindset travels to South Africa to see how traditional healers are providing desperately needed mental health solutions. Across Africa, healers have been part of the…
Spain’s Housing Battles: A pensioner-turned-activist fights evictions | Housing
Under threat of eviction, Antonio emerges from his quiet retirement to fight for housing rights in Spain. Antonio and Maria are a Spanish couple in…
Training the brain in hyper-competitive South Korea | Olympics
Meet the sport therapists and ‘brain trainers’ who cultivate grit and resilience in a hyper-competitive South Korea. With 27 gold medals, South Korea has dominated…
How A Documentary Is Firing Up Passion For Girl Education In Northern Nigeria
On a sunny November afternoon in 2023, a group of women crammed into a classroom at a primary school in Kaduna South. Later, a bus…
Schwarzenegger pays tribute to Times columnist George Skelton in new documentary
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger credits Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton for his decision to run for California governor in the historic 2003 election in…
‘American Movie’: How a failed ‘Blair Witch Project’ predicted the future
For a tiny moment in Chris Smith’s wry 1999 documentary “American Movie,” Hollywood glamour seeps into the film’s wintry Wisconsin gloom. On a TV set,…
Mental trauma in a warzone: Why Ukraine needs therapists | Russia-Ukraine war
Mindset meets the Ukrainian therapists fighting to keep a population sane in a country at war. During the Soviet era, many of Ukraine’s political dissidents…
The 10 movies we’re most looking forward to at Sundance 2024
A scene from the documentary “Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye.” (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) You may be asking yourself: Do we really…
The animal sounds in most nature documentaries are made by humans — here’s how they do it and why it matters
Wildlife documentaries like the BBC's recent series, Planet Earth III, are renowned for offering breathtaking images of animals in their natural habitats. You'd be forgiven…
I’m preparing for China’s war on Taiwan | Close Up | Elections
This Taiwanese citizen is taking up arms in preparation for what he believes is an imminent Chinese invasion. “I think China will invade Taiwan between…
Argentina: Inside the therapy capital of the world | Documentary
Mindset travels to Argentina, home to the highest number of psychologists per capita in the world. Psychological disorders are rising globally. Amid this mental health…
Australian Open: The grand slam tennis tournament that shines a light on the nation, both good and bad
For two weeks every summer, Australia is the centre of the sporting universe.The Australian Open fortnight provides a rare opportunity for the country to throw…
Fighting for Space: The Low Earth Satellite Race | Al Jazeera
People & Power investigates the new satellite space race and its implications for the future. Space may be infinite, but the Earth’s orbit is not.…
King Charles' Coronation BBC documentary hit with almost 900 complaints
A BBC documentary following King Charles as he prepared for his Coronation and the moments after has come under fire for being 'too positive' about…
‘Occupied City’ review: Steve McQueen’s brilliant documentary
One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an Amsterdam arts establishment during…
The Hollywood lawyer quarterbacking Hunter Biden’s defense
On a fall day in 2019, one of Hollywood’s top lawyers drove through the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains to see Hunter Biden. Biden’s…
‘Beyond Utopia’ tracks desperate attempts to flee North Korea
“Beyond Utopia,” an eye-opening thriller that captures a family’s desperate and dangerous escape from North Korea, is one of the year’s most acclaimed documentaries, winning…