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Alabama Shakes: Future People

Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.

Professors in Poverty

Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years and has a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty.

Documentary: Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.

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"Trumbo"

'Trumbo' covers the span of time leading up to anti-communist hysteria in 1947, right after WWII when our ally, the Soviet Union suddenly became our enemy. Those who had written screenplays praising the USSR or supported union workers against the studio bosses were now suspect, and any of their friends and associates were considered enemies of the State.

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Music Is My Ammunition

Playing for Change video of Bob Marley's classic of hope and forgiveness, featuring Mermans Kenkosenki, Roberto Luti, as well as family members from Cuba and Jamaica including Stephen Marley.

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What Republicans Hear

When Bernie Sanders speaks, Republicans hear it a little differently. 

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Documentary: India's Daughter

India’s Daughter is the powerful story of the brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical student. Udwin got exclusive, first time on camera interviews with the rapists and defense attorney, none of whom express remorse. Read a review. Now in theaters.

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Medea Benjamin on System Change

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses her personal journey; how corporate and militarist forces keep the U.S. in a state of perpetual war; and how social movements can develop a genuine alternative. 

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Could We Actually Live on Mars?

There's a lot of talk these days about when and how we might all move to Mars. But what would it actually be like to live there? 

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