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- Waiting - Chronicles the remarkable dignity of the Dinka people of Sudan in the midst of famine.
- Walden - Images of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, set to passages from Thoreau's seminal American literary work.
- Wall Street - On the floor and behind the scenes of the New York Stock Exchange. A revealing and candid look at the people and culture that make up the biggest marketplace in the world.
- Wandering Souls - Thirty years after the end of the war against the United States, two Vietnamese veterans continue to search for the remains of their dead comrades.
- War and Peace - From India's leading documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan. Filmed over 3 years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the US. An epic journey of peace activism in the face of religious fanaticism, militarism and war.
- War and Peace in Ireland - Retraces the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 up until the present day peace process.
- The War at Home - This Academy Award nominated film chronicles the awakening and growth of the Vietnam protest movement in the United States.
- War Photographer - Considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, James Nachtwey hardly fits the cliché of the hard-boiled war journalist. 2001 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
- Waste = Food - Based on the theories of William McDonough and Michael Braungart, major corporations embrace environmentally sustainable architecture and production in an ecologically-inspired industrial revolution.
- Wax: Or the Discovery of Television among the Bees - A milestone in cyber-history, WAX is the first full length film ever broadcast over the internet.
- The Way Things Go - 100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock - a discussion starter for sure.
- We Are Not Your Monkeys and Occupation: Millworker - Two films on one tape. WE ARE NOT YOUR MONKEYS is a look at the caste system in India through Daya Pawar's song. OCCUPATION: MILLWORKER records the courageous action of workers who, after a four-year lockout, forcibly occupied The New Great
- We Loved Each Other So Much - The Lebanese singer Hoda Nouhad Haddad, better known as Fairuz, is a legend in the Arab world. The stories of diverse Beirut inhabitants and of their love for her provide a moving commentary on Lebanon's tumultuous history.
- Wearing the Green: Longtermers of the New York State Prison System - Former Black Panther Eddie Ellis' odyssey through New York State's prison system.
- Welcome to Colombia - Millions of displaced persons, 35,000 murders per year, a kidnapping every ten minutes ... but as Colombian filmmaker Catalina Villar traverses her country, she finds hope in people working for peaceful change.
- Western Eyes - The search for beauty and self-acceptance of two women of Asian descent contemplating plastic surgery - they believe their appearance, specifically their eyes, affect how they are perceived by others.
- When Mrs. Hegarty Comes to Japan
- Where is Grandma Zheng's Homeland? - At 17, Zheng Shunyi was taken by the Japanese as a 'comfort woman' from Korea to Hunan, China, where she stayed. Now over 70, Grandma Zheng wants to return to her hometown before dying. But would she be going home?
- White City, Black Lives - Five residents of White City, a neighborhood in Soweto, were trained how to use small Hi8 cameras, so that they could tell the story of their own lives, in their own way, to represent themselves to their fellow citizens, and the world.
- White Gold - Early production of sugar in the Americas, particularly Brazil.
- Wholes - A humorous and scathing satire that considers the social ills plaguing Sao Paulo, Brazil, the "sixth or maybe seventh" largest city in the world, through the metaphor of potholes.
- The Wild East - An ethnographic rendering of life in Ulan Bator, a city at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, communism and global capitalism.
- Winds of Memory - Filmed over three years, WINDS OF MEMORY reveals Mayan life and culture in Guatemala today, five centuries after the "discovery" of America.
- With God On Our Side - A balanced chronicle of the emergence of conservative Christians as a political force, and an in-depth look at Pres. Bush's connection with evangelicals, told largely in evangelical conservatives' own words.
- Women in the Middle East - A series that explores the changing roles of women in the Arab world.
- The Women of Hezbollah - A portrait of two women activists in the Hezbollah, and an examination of the personal, social and political factors of their commitment to this Islamic movement in Lebanon.
- Women of the Sahel
- Women Under Siege - Looks at the daily lives of six women in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp.
- Work - Explores the hopes and aspirations of Arab men and women as embodied in the dreams and realities of flying.
- Working Women of the World - Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., examines the relocation of factories from Western countries to nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent.
- The World Is Watching - In the context of Nicaragua's Arias Peace Plan negotiations, this film demonstrates just how truly we should not believe all that we are told.
- The World Stopped Watching - What happens to a country when the media spotlight is turned off? 15 years after the Sandinista/Contra war in Nicaragua often led our nightly news, journalists who covered that war return to find out.
- Worlds Out of Time - The widespread encroachment of western consumerism into other cultures via the mass media.
- The Writers of Today - A series of dialogues with five of the foremost writers of the twentieth century.
- The Written Face - Offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.
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