Video Project

10/15/2026

Educational licenses available for Techplomacy!
https://www.videoproject.org/techplomacy.html

Techplomacy delves into the power and influence the world's largest tech giants exert on democracies, and the efforts to regulate their products and services for the benefit of global society. The film examines the seemingly unstoppable forces of social media and artificial intelligence, which are developing faster than governments' ability to keep up, consequently reshaping those very governments in the process.

Techplomacy highlights the need to uphold and safeguard democracy and establish digital human rights during this accelerated era of technological dominance. The film illuminates the tireless, often behind-the-scenes work required to create a framework for a digital future that works for every citizen.

10/08/2026

Educational licenses available for In Our Nature!
https://www.videoproject.org/in-our-nature.html

In Our Nature explores how environmental education and immersion into nature strengthens neighborhoods, builds career opportunities, improves mental and physical health, and allows us to reconnect with one another in a time of rising loneliness, political division, and climate uncertainty.

Both urgent and hopeful, In Our Nature shows why access to nature is not a luxury, but essential to what it means to be humans living in concert with one another.

10/08/2026

The Video Project has officially joined the Docuseek collection! We’re bringing 345 cutting-edge social impact titles to our platform by December 31, 2026. Founded in 1983 by Oscar® winner Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Oscar® nominee Ian Thiermann, The Video Project curates powerful films exploring today's most pressing global issues. This partnership expands our mission to deliver relevant, high-impact documentary resources to educational institutions (🔗conta.cc/4icTB3l).

AFTER WORK
A global survey of contemporary trends in labor and leisure, and contemplates the benefits and challenges of a potential "post-labor" society brought about by automation.
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BREAK THE GAME
After coming out as trans, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she sets out to break a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and live-streams every minute of her quest.
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CITY OF A MILLION DREAMS
New Orleans jazz funerals and second-line parades absorb the pain of death and racism, soaring to transcendent rebirth. But a hurricane and a parade shooting plunge Michael White and Deb "Big Red" Cotton into a search for the city's soul.
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THE DELLS
Foreign students on summer work visas staff Wisconsin Dells water parks. While marketed as cultural immersion, it's also about accessing cheap labor revealing modern America through these young workers' experiences.
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DISTRICT OF SECOND CHANCES
A quest for redemption is unfolding in Washington, DC. Thanks to forward-looking "Second Chance" legislation, three men who were sentenced in their youth to life in prison have the chance to plead for release.
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THE M FACTOR
Steeped in evidence and new research, this film provides a long-overdue corrective to the absence of information and treatments around menopause, empowering women to take control of their health and well-being.
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RED FEVER
An in-depth look at the ways Indigenous cultures have been reduced to stereotypes, appropriated by mainstream popular culture, and the impact on Indigenous peoples.
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10/01/2026

Educational licenses available for Brailled It!
https://www.videoproject.org/brailled-it.html

Every year, the top under-18 braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge. Brailled It equips three of the competitors with go-pro cameras, centering their perspectives as audiences witness firsthand how they navigate a world all too often constructed without them in mind.

Including both open captions and audio description standard, Brailled It is an accessible and innovative immersion into subjective experiences sure to resonate with anyone across the spectrum of vision.

09/24/2026

Educational licenses now available for The Shadow Scholars!
https://www.videoproject.org/the-shadow-scholars.html

Captivated by the hidden, multi-billion dollar "fake essay" industry, Patricia Kingori, the youngest woman and Black professor in Oxford's 925-year history, enters the world of the "shadow scholars"— roughly 40,000 highly-educated, under-employed Kenyans in Nairobi making ends meet by writing academic papers for students in the Global North.

Patricia's investigation takes her to some of the best regarded experts in the world who makes clear the threats to data and privacy of sensitive personal research information being shared on the fake essay platforms and the future consequences of under-qualified graduates going into the labor market. With the contract cheating industry estimated at $15 billion, Patricia questions who the true "shadow scholars" are and makes the case for centering the perspectives of the writers in her framing of this global underground economy

09/17/2026

Educational licenses now available for Ghost in the Machine!
https://www.videoproject.org/ghost-in-the-machine.html

Ghost in the Machine exposes the historical and philosophical underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms that suddenly came into existence but as a technology shaped over many decades by eugenics, misogyny, and entrenched structures of power.

Structured as an eight-chapter inquiry, the film blends historical excavation with contemporary analysis to confront essential questions: Who built these systems? Whose values do they encode? And who do they benefit?

This is a film not about machines, but power, and how it reimagines itself along with changing times.

09/14/2026

Locally, 1001 Cuts premieres TONIGHT, September 14 at 10PM on KQED 9 and will re-air on THURSDAY, September 17 at 10PM on KQED Plus.

Throughout the month of September, PBS stations across the country have been broadcasting 1001 Cuts, an award-winning documentary presented by KQED that spotlights how women are navigating the high-stakes professional world of surgery. Premiering in recognition of WOMEN IN MEDICINE MONTH, the film will also be available for streaming on the PBS app and PBS.org.

"1001 Cuts is a call to action to build workplace cultures within medicine where talent, hard work, and leadership are recognized," says Dr. Sarah Temkin, creator and producer of the film. "The film also serves as an educational tool to improve the culture for women in medicine and beyond."

https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/12806/1001-cuts

09/10/2026

Educational licenses available for It's Dorothy!
https://www.videoproject.org/its-dorothy.html

It's Dorothy! traces Dorothy Gale's epic journey from the pages of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to her reinvention and evolution across generations. The film also weaves in biographical details on the life, career, and ally-ship of legendary actress Judy Garland.

Featuring a star-studded cast of interviewees, including actresses tasked with following Garland over the years, It's Dorothy! is a celebration of culture's ability to engender community and belonging.

09/03/2026

Educational licenses available for The Long Way Home Documentary!
https://www.videoproject.org/the-long-way-home.html

The Long Way Home is Michael Apted's (The UP Series, Incident at Oglala) rollicking, revealing documentary about Soviet underground rock star Boris Grebenshchikov's journey to the West in 1988 to make an album and bring it back home in the early, optimistic days of Glasnost. The film is a reminder of what might have been in Russia (and could yet be), and of the enduring power of music to raise spirits and resist tyranny and censorship.

Remastered and available for the first time in over 30 years, this edition of The Long Way Home features a newly-produced epilogue co-directed by original producer Steven Lawrence and editor Susanne Rostock.

Also featuring Annie Lennox, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Chrissie Hynde, Ray Cooper, Aquarium, and Dave Stewart

06/17/2026

Ashwini Nadkarni MD, Vice Chair for Faculty Enrichment at Mass General Brigham (department of psychiatry) & assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote a revelatory Op-Ed about what the documentary 1001 CUTS reveals about burnout and belonging in healthcare.

“The only way you can ask for things and have people like you, is by apologizing before and after you ask,” says one woman surgeon in the short doc...