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Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey shows how one Khmer Rouge child soldier confronts his childhood experiences during Cambodia’s darkest hour. Sayon Soeun was abducted at the age of six, exploited by the Khmer Rouge, his family life and education stolen. His recovery and redemption from unimaginable evi...

A World Beneath the War (1997) tells the story of the tunnels of Vietnam and the remarkable people who built and sustained them. Told from the perspective of a father taking his son back to the site of his war service, the film features rare archival footage and poignant personal stories, bringin...

At the end of the Vietnam War hundreds of orphaned children, born in South Vietnam, were transported into American homes almost overnight in cities and suburbs across the nation. They soon became the beloved sons and daughters of close-knit American families.
They were warmly embraced, they wante...

At Tu Du Hospital in Saigon, babies in a special unit have enlarged heads or are missing limbs. Pham Thi Thuy Linh, born without arms, writes with her feet. A boy with a shrunken leg careens around the corridor in a wheelchair. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, they are among several...

The survival of ancient Southeast Asian culture is explored in Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia. It is the story of Thavro Phim, a Cambodian dancer who came of age during the regime of Pol Pot (1975-1979) and lost his father, brother and grandfather to the genocide c...

This is the story of New York-based author Irina Pantaeva’s journey to her homeland in Southern Siberia. Through her eyes, the film looks at the revival of ancient Buryat-Mongol culture in a region that is usually associated with Gulags and forbidding winters. It traces the impact of democracy on...

Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, a film produced by The Gardner Documentary Group, covers the life and times of this 19th century pioneering investor and philanthropist who still speaks to us. Peter Cooper built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, and was instrumen...