An inspiring story of healing and transcendence through the power of music. When five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility, a women's prison in Kansas, write letters to Etheridge, she then uses as inspiration to create and perform an original song for them. Having recently lost her son to opioids, Etheridge works to understand and interrupt the cycle of addiction while connecting with these women who, so often, are forgotten by society.
Broken Bread showcases inspiring people who are making a difference in their communities through food. Restaurant entrepreneur, social activist and acclaimed chef Roy Choi takes viewers on a journey through his hometown, the city of Los Angeles, exploring complex social justice issues while meeting inspiring individuals and organizations who use food as a platform for activism as well as a catalyst for change.
We travel to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.
Climate change is real. It’s happening now. Big policy, implemented properly and urgently, is needed to change our world … but some people are quietly doing amazing things to make our island a better place. Heated tells their stories. Heated is a new 6-part series on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player dealing with climate change.
Rose McGowan, artist and activist, documents the work being done to spread her message of “bravery, art, joy and survival.”
An inside look at the changing role of athletes in our fraught cultural and political environment, through the lens of the NBA.
Winningest NBA champion and civil rights icon Bill Russell builds a larger-than-life legacy on and off the court in this biographical documentary.
The 12-episode documentary follows the grassroots work of multicultural/intersectional organizations fighting the Los Angeles county's $3.5 billion jail expansion plan in 2018 and examines the issues of cash bail, unlawful arrest, over-policing of Black and brown neighborhoods, and mass incarceration.
A tale of two ambitious lawyers who recklessly find themselves entangled in a game of ambition, desire and secrecy amidst high-strung and high-profile political cases.
The same with its movie counterpart this series revolves around Ina Montecillo and her 12 children navigating life and its challenges
Ne tau, Martyna!
La Trilogie marseillaise
A forensic officer goes into personal turmoil when he has to fight his own demons to solve one of the most high profile cases in the city.
Rotown
オトナの授業
Former border guard Sasha Dymov returns to his native village of Kordona after serving time in prison on false charges. There is nothing left of his previous life — his wife left for her best friend, it is impossible to return to law enforcement agencies. A faithful comrade Trofimych comes to the rescue — he takes Dymov under his wing and arranges an auto mechanic in his workshop. It would seem that there is no more peaceful occupation. But there is a border nearby, secret paths of smugglers, big money, weapons and criminals who dream of hiding from persecution behind the cordon… Only Sasha Dymov can stop this lawlessness. In addition to criminal showdowns, Sasha will have to find a way out of the love triangle. And it won't do without mysticism.
The black night of a sleepless metropolis. Dark alleys of residential areas. In this city, a real city of sins, something terrible and at the same time ordinary happens every moment: someone will die today, someone will ruin themselves. The heroes are real, they live next to us. But the area of darkness has no geography. There is darkness in everyone. Sometimes she goes outside. And everyone makes a choice, to release their darkness or... to remain human.