Pirating pirates

The film provides a close look at how the nomadic inhabitants of Somalia have withstood the ravages of a harsh desert environment and the...

The vessel is Infinity, a 120-foot hand-built sailboat, crewed by a band of miscreants. The journey, an 8,000 mile Pacific crossing from New Zealand...

In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785 two American ships were brought back to Algiers; in the winter of 1793, eleven...

Journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye talk about the horrendous days in the desert, rail executions and false terror charges. They were...

In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the...

Documentary that follows the lives of two pirates and their community on the Somali coastline; what are the incentives of the pirates, why did they...

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

It explores how the seafaring brigands of early modern Europe invented or honed asymmetric naval warfare and new forms of democracy: how they...

In one of the world's largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab, the inhabitans survive by watching films and dreaming. The refugees cannot leave the...

The Perfect Story offers a riveting, intimate look at the ethical and moral challenges sparked by the relationship between a foreign correspondent...

What happens to the crew aboard a pirated ship, the MV iceberg 1, hijacked for over 11 months.