This documentary explores the transition of a young mother from addiction treatment to a clean and sober life, with the help of a family mentoring program known as shared family care. To see additio

Rev. Sally Bingham of San Francisco, lay organizer Steve MacAusland of Boston and members of a concerned church discuss the movement for a religious response to climate change that has spread to more

Nationwide, even with more people covered through the Affordable Care Act, nearly 28 million Americans remain without medical coverage. To see additional resources and our other programs, please visit

In this documentary, we ask why it is that the wealthiest Americans live as many as fifteen years longer than the poorest. Its a troubling question at a time when income inequality has reached levels

In this documentary we explore how federal courts enforced fugitive slave laws. Historians, actors and legal scholars re-create the famous case of a young escaped slave who was sent back by a Boston j

As dramatized in a Bob Dylan song and The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington, ex-prize fighter Rubin Carter tells how he was wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and ultimately exonerated by a f

The moving tale of the late Mae Bertha Carter, a sharecropper who raised thirteen children and also stood firmagainst harassmentin her quest to integrate public schools in Sunflower County, Mississi

We remember Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hahn, a best-selling author, Zen master and peacemaker, who taught part-time in the U.S. In this interview, he described lessons he learned about peacemaking tha

We explore the bitter legacy of racial division left over from the Civil War and how its still affecting American life today. To see additional resources and our other programs, please visithumanmed

Bay Area author and psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen explores the connection between a persons emotional state affects their physical health, and how moments of truth may be revealed when facing dir