In a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, there are seemingly endless services tailored for the community—stores in Yiddish, school buses and even a dedicated EMS. Yet the corps is made up entirely of men, and one group of women wants to change that. On a mission to start the city's first all-female volunteer EMS corps, these women are set on shattering the glass ceiling in the unlikeliest of communities.

The Apology follows three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment, the survivors give their first-hand accounts of the truth for the record, seeking apology and the hope that this horrific chapter of history not be forgotten.

Mariela’s brother Roilan has fled. Pita questions the rosy picture that so many Cubans have of life in the U.S.

We meet Mariela, Pita, and their family, and get a glimpse into their lives, including routine power outages.

Mariela talks to Roilan, who has reached the U.S. safely and is working as a landscaper in Arizona.

We see people repairing what they have because they can’t afford to replace it. We also learn that Mariela once tried to leave, but her attempt to make it to the U.S. failed within site of the coast.

Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave, the other content to stay—builds into a high stakes family drama after her brother and the couple’s neighbors escape.

Nori and his family are trying to build a semblance of a normal life in a refugee camp. He is asked to return to and report on his hospital.

A sparse staff at the hospital is trying to treat the wounded caught in the fighting between ISIS and the Kurds. The violence has led most of the hospital staff to evacuate.

We see nurse Nori Sharif at work in the Jalawla Hospital in Iraq’s Diyala province.

Nowhere to Hide follows male nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas: the “triangle of death” in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of a better future as U.S. and Coalition troops retreat from Iraq in 2011, conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the simultaneous rise of ISIS.

We find out that Yu’s marriage was arranged by her parents, against her will. Zhou explains that she had to find Yu a husband who would accept a disabled wife.

During a speaking engagement at Peking University, Yu is asked about how she overcomes her disability. She declares labelling unfair and discriminatory, but also says she has limitations that she will never overcome.

Yu walks around the farm that has inspired some of her poetry.

Yu describes what poetry means to her, saying, “Poetry makes me understand that it's important to live on. It supports me. Without poetry, life is empty...poems give me, peace and tranquillity.”

A village woman, despite not having finished her high school education, has become China’s most famous poet. Her book of poetry has become the best-selling poetry book in China for the past 20 years. Still Tomorrow follows the poet, Yu Xihua, a 39-year-old woman living with cerebral palsy, and her sudden fame, poignantly weaving her personal narrative with that of an ascendant, urbanizing China.

When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis. Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. As the national guard rolls in, citizens mount a powerful battle cry announcing that their generation is fighting not just for their civil rights, but for the right to live.

In the Taliban-controlled area of Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan, where sports for women are decried as un-Islamic and girls rarely leave their houses, young Maria Toorpakai defies the rules by disguising herself as a boy so she can play squash freely. As she becomes a rising star, however, her true identity is revealed, bringing constant death threats on her and her family.

The clip covers several topics that will be important to review with students, including parental support, life under the Taliban, links between Taliban control and poverty, extremism as a distortion of Islam, the benefits of sports and differences between urban and rural communities.

We are introduced to Maria Toorpakai, an elite level athlete and international squash champion.