Shugufa: Struggle to Study

This Wide Angle video segment visits Afghanistan to explore the home life of Shugufa, a young girl caught between the traditions of Afghani society and modernization.

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Sick Around the World

From FRONTLINE Sick Around the World, this video explores what the U.S. can learn from other countries' health systems.

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Sikh Saint-Soldier

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about the origins and practices of Sikhism.

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Small Business

This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda’s new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.

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Somali Muslims in Maine

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, view the reactions of citizens from Lewiston, Maine as Somali immigrants settle in their community.

Southern Africa: Troubled Water

From FRONTLINE/World Southern Africa: Troubled Water, students will explore the problems during the PlayPump rollout and analyze the lessons learned from implementing this foreign aid project.

Steps Toward Peace

This video from Women, War & Peace looks at steps the women of Liberia took to end a bloody civil war in their country.

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Suffering and Recovery

Learn about the role local churches played in bringing Hutus and Tutsis together in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in this Wide Angle video segment.

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Suicide Bombing

Mohanned Abu Tayyoun describes the events that occurred on the day of his intended suicide bombing in this video segment from Wide Angle.

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Supporting the Women of Afghanistan

A look at Afghanistan’s need for international support and actions taken by the U.S. to advocate for Afghan women in this video from Women, War & Peace.

Tallit Making

The significance of the tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, is the focus of this segment from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

Talmud Study

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about the Talmud, the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law.

The Testimony

This video from Women, War & Peace features Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal Testimony from witnesses against their accused Bosnian Serb rapists.

This Land is Our Land

How have political borders been drawn in different historical situations, and how does their presence impact people? (Botswana, Zimbabwe)

Tibetan Buddhist Mandala

Tibetan Buddhist monks execute a ritual that symbolizes the impermanence of life in this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

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Tibetan New Year

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the most important holiday celebrated in Tibet.

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Timbuktu

This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly features Timbuktu, one of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet and a former thriving center of Islamic learning.

Transformed Workplaces

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.

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Trust in the Law

Citizen complaints demonstrate that China’s legal system has not yet fully gained the people’s trust in this Wide Angle video.

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Truth and Consequences

In this lesson, using video segments from Women, War & Peace, students will examine the unfortunately widespread and longstanding phenomenon of wartime rape through a case study of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, convened in 1995 to prosecute atrocities committed during the 1993-1995 war in Bosnia.

Turkey's Early Christian Roots

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about the essential role Turkey played in the early history of Christianity.

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Two Brazils

In this Wide Angle video, two college hopefuls discuss the new racial quota system for applicants to the University of Brasilia.

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The Value of a Girl

In this video from Wide Angle, meet Santosh Kohli, a worker in India's BPO industry who hails from a family of modest means.

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War and the Rise of Women's Resistance in Liberia

This video from Women, War & Peace provides an introduction to the Liberian civil war, which began in 1989, and the birth of the women’s resistance movement.

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War Was In The Air

This video from Women, War & Peace provides historical background on Yugoslavia, and how it began to unravel with a series of national separatist movements in the early 1990s.

Widows in Israel

In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.

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Women in Afghanistan Today

A look at efforts two Afghan women are taking to help others, as well as dangers faced by women in Afghanistan today in this video from Women, War & Peace.

Women in Islam

Students explore basic beliefs and practices of Islam and examine the different views of women's roles in Islam and modern American society in this lesson. They look closely at two issues that affect American Muslims: hijab and prayer.

Women in Parliament

In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about the representation of women in Rwanda’s parliament.

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Women on the Rise in Afghanistan

In this lesson from Women, War & Peace students learn about the life of women in Afghanistan, including progress they have made as well as the obstacles and dangers they still face.

Women Wanting to Work

Examples from India and Israel frame the study of women negotiating entry into the economic arena. (India, Israel)

Work Abroad

In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.

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Young and Restless in China

From FRONTLINE Young and Restless in China, this video explores the costs of work for China's younger generation.

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Zakaat

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Imam Bashar Arafat, a scholar and interfaith leader in Baltimore, Maryland, describes “zakaat,” an almsgiving tax that Muslims pay annually.

Zoroastrian New Year

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about the rituals and beliefs surrounding Norooz, the New Year festival of the ancient Zoroastrian belief system.