Realized Dreams

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family...

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey as an American volunteer takes them from Africa...

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving...

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state...

From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and...

This moving documentary profiles a former Buddhist monk who runs a home for orphaned children in the Himalayas, and his relationship with its newest...