Extraordinary stories about ordinary people on the front lines of social, political and environmental change.
Miss Amazing | Storyteller | Trailer
1 day ago
Every year over 140 hopeful young girls and women from across America come together for one very special event: The National Miss Amazing Pageant, for girls with physical or learning disabilities.
Abuse and the UN | Storyteller | Excerpt
27 Jan 2020
For over 70 years, the United Nations has functioned as a bastion for human rights and defender of the most vulnerable. But what happens when those whose task it is to protect the poor and the weak, women and children -become perpetrators themselves?
For over 70 years, the United Nations has functioned as a bastion for human rights and defender of the most vulnerable. But what happens when those whose task it is to protect the poor and the weak, women and children -become perpetrators themselves?
Becoming Bulletproof | Storyteller | Excerpt
16 Jan 2020
Becoming Bulletproof documents the making of an original Western film called Bulletproof. Bulletproof features actors with and without disabilities who meet every year at Zeno Mountain Farm (ZMF) to write, produce, and star in original short films.
Marish has been kept as a domestic slave by a family in Hungary for 10 years. A Woman Captured opens up the dark world of modern day slavery behind closed doors.
Hundreds of thousands of migrant women work as maids in the Middle East. They are bound to their employer under a system known as Kafala. Often trapped and abused - this is their story.
Storyteller offers cutting-edge, high-quality documentaries sourced from around the world. The productions provide context and insight into global issues and international events, in order to explain their impact on the lives of ordinary people.
#ChicagoGirl: Can Social Networks Really Bring Down a Dictator?
From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, Ala'a, an American teenage girl, uses social media to coordinate the revolution in Syria.
Abuse and the UN | Storyteller | Trailer
20 Jan 2020
For over 70 years, the United Nations has functioned as a bastion for human rights and defender of the most vulnerable. But what happens when those whose task it is to protect the poor and the weak, women and children -become perpetrators themselves?
Morocco's Paralympic gold medallist struggles to earn a decent wage
The longstanding institutional indifference can make life difficult for many differently-abled sportsmen in the country but that hasn't deterred a 33-year-old shot put thrower from winning Olympic-level gold medals.
Dying to Live | Storyteller | Excerpt
12 Dec 2019
Deep beneath the complex world of organ and tissue transplants are the heart-wrenching stories of real people awaiting life-saving organs.
A Woman Captured | Storyteller | Trailer
2 Dec 2019
Inside an upscale Hungarian home run by a tyrannical matriarch resides a domestic slave. At 52 years old, Marish labors 20 hours a day without pay and endures a constant barrage of emotional and physical abuse.
Dying to Live Trailer | Storyteller
25 Nov 2019
Dying to Live takes us into the worlds of those awaiting and going through organ transplants, and with penetrating insight explores the policy failures that allow this to happen. Finally, Dying to Live offers solutions to easily solvable crisis.
Maid in Hell Trailer | Storyteller
28 Oct 2019
Harassment, abuse, rape and 18-hour work days are a commonplace reality for domestic helpers who have travelled to the Middle East to find employment. ‘Maid In Hell’ gives unprecedented access to this frightening and brutal form of modern slavery.
Laila at the Bridge Trailer | Storyteller
14 Oct 2019
In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts.
How the world's youngest democracy could spark, or disrupt Arab freedom
Tunisia is the only Arab country to have emerged with a viable civil society and democracy after the Arab Spring, but the system is on the ropes as authoritarianism casts its shadow over the country.
As the head of a globally-regarded NGO that claimed to provide shelter and education for girls rescued from brothels in Northern Thailand, Mickey Choothesa’s story took an unexpected turn during a documentary filming.
The Mosque Next Door: What it's like living as a Muslim in Australia
TRT World interviews Anton Tripolskii, a domestic violence expert from the Battered Women’s Justice Project, who explains how the 'credibility of victim-survivors is significantly discounted in the American court system.'
An actor's struggle with playing the part of 'not welcoming' Europe
TRT World interviews Valentijn Dhaenens, an actor in the film “Stranger in Paradise.” He welcomes migrants with unusual techniques: first rejecting them, then embracing them.
The Islands and the Whales: An interview with director Mike Day
Mike Day's film follows locals on the Faroe Islands as they confront the changing reality of whaling in the 21st century, in which toxic pollution has left their traditional source of sustenance unsafe.
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