The 2011 Peace Day Global Broadcast will include the following short films and documentaries. Check the schedule for for dates and times. After the broadcast some of this content will become available on demand. Click here for a list of musicians appearing in videos on the broadcast, click here for prominent leaders.
Short Films
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No Child is Born a Terrorist
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Zimbabwe Film
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Cash Flow Fever
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The Day After Peace
Directed by Jeremy Gilley. Starring Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie, Jude Law. Tells the story of how Jeremy, against all the odds, manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day' on September 21st. |
Gas Gas Gas An IFAD-supported project in China's Guangxi province encourages poor farmers to produce their own biogas as a means of reducing poverty while improving local environmental conditions |
Hungry Planet
Multi-segment documentary of the United Nation's three food agencies - FAO, WFP and IFAD - taking us around the globe in search of answers to some of the most pressing questions we face today.
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The Presidents Dilema
The Pacific islands of Kiribati were among the last places to be colonized by humans. But now, because of rising sea levels, they may be among the first to be abandoned. Should Kiribati President Anote Tong surrender to climate change and evacuate? |
Birthrights: The Mountain Midwifes of Vietnam
The infant and maternal mortality rates in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam are 10 times higher than the national average. This program shows what is being done to help
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What Would It Look Like?
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? This 25-minute retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves at this time of unprecedented global transformation |
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A Game For Life
Grassroot Soccer project coordinator, Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie, uses soccer to educate South African youth about HIV/AIDS prevention. She describes her childhood in the poverty-stricken city of Port Elizabeth and how soccer gave her gave her the drive to be who she is today. This film comes from the Global Oneness Project. |
A thousand Suns
A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years. |
Slum Survivors
Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums, with as many as one million in Kibera, Africa’s largest such settlement, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Slum Survivors, IRIN’s first full-length documentary, tells some of their stories and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.
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