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- The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.
- Minesweepers, fishermen, volcanologists, bouncers or tornado hunters, dangerous jobs are as varied as they are impressive. What pushes these men and women to trade their reassuring briefcase for jobs where the slightest mistake could have dire consequences? Aren't they afraid of anything? What are their families' worries or fears? And above all, what makes their work so exciting and worth all the risks? By exploring the daily lives of people with dangerous jobs, the series 24 heures : danger. promises to keep you on the edge of your seat. Each episode presents two fascinating and lively individuals whose professional lives are far from routine or mundane. United by a common theme, they confront danger or put their lives at risk on a daily basis.
- A group of Americans travel to Haiti to celebrate the opening of an elementary school.
- A travelogue exploring the people and sights of the island nation of Haiti.
- A piggyback ride of a documentary linking Haitian pigs, Vodou and US economic imperialism.
- Since the January 2010 earthquake, what we've seen in news outlets worldwide are images of Haiti in disarray. What is missing from international coverage is a grassroots forum that gives voice to Haitian citizens. "A Soapbox in Haiti" is a nomadic speaker series that champions the resiliency of the Haitian people. Filming took place in villages, towns, and cities all over Haiti during the latter half of September 2010. Residents of Haiti who have been pre-selected through a comprehensive process delivered speeches, each on a topic significant to the region where the speaker lives. These topics include sustainable development, women's empowerment, arts and culture, child advocacy, ecology, agriculture, education, and health education and disease prevention.
- Twenty five Hollywood Film and TV composers came together to write a symphony for the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The film captures the studio session that recorded a 90-piece symphony and 60-person choir while taking you on a journey with people in Haiti as they rebuild their country rock by rock.
- After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti looking for her relatives. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who might have the power of resurrection.
- The struggle of the Maison des Enfants de Dieu orphanage and the 135 children who called it home. "Adopting Haiti" shines a light on a side of the Haitian tragedy that few are even aware exists. With only the clothes on his back, filmmaker Timothy Wolfer followed Tawnya Constantino and a team of dedicated volunteers as they navigated the often dangerous conditions in their struggle to evacuate 135 Haitian orphans and bring them to the United States.
- On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck Haiti. The death toll reached over 300,000 and left over one million people homeless. The world reacted with unprecedented relief efforts. This is a documentary focusing on the survival stories of the resilient Haitian people and the selfless work of international government and non-government organizations who rushed to aid Haiti in their time of need.
- On the Dominican-Haitian border, the daily struggle to survive is getting harder everyday. It is survival's search what crosses the roads and diffuses the border lines. There is a lot if food being harvested, transported and sold. But it ends up being very far away.
- -After the earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince (Haiti) in 2010, hundreds of Quebecers took a flight to the Caribbean Sea in order to give a helping hand to a country that needed it. For Carla, Georges, Ishmaël, Géraldine, Guy-Olivier and Régine, what was supposed to be a trip of a few weeks turned into a one-way trip. If, at the beginning, the desire to help their fellow man was their main motivation, they quickly fell in love with the Pearl of the Antilles.
- The documentary examines Amnesty International's successes and failures over the 50 years since it was founded.
- The shadows of Napoleon's army fall upon their boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne Lamartinière - a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. However, a local myth tells a different story about her acts of rebellion. Consequently, it is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
- After a panic attack inside a movie theater Daniel is diagnosed with generalized anxiety and depression. With the intention of getting rid of it the filmmaker goes on an internal journey where making Cinema becomes a possible cure. The film world premiered at IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2019.
- Since the Haiti disaster on the 12th of January, 2010, it has not only been humanitarian organizations working in the country. Animal welfare organizations formed a coalition of veterinarians and vet technicians (ARCH) to address the needs of both the animal and human populations. The full list of contributing organizations can be seen in the end titles. This film illustrates the phenomenal work achieved so far to vaccinate and treat the surviving animal population, thereby preventing deadly animal borne diseases in humans.
- A young peasant girl goes to work as a "slave" for a rich family in Haiti's Big Apple.
- Eladio Fernández, Dominican conservation photographer, goes to Haiti on an expedition to find a new species of Aristolochia (pipe vine) and another that had not been seen for 90 years.
- A young artist is diagnosed with a medical condition that will leave him blind for the rest of his life. As a result, he loses all his motivation to continue, but only until he finds the support he needs from his husband.
- Une incursion documentaire dans le monde de la musique algérienne émergente. Devant la caméra, se succèdent des artistes et des groupes musicaux aux influences diverses, qui se trouvent au coeur de la vague. D'Alger à Oran, nous rencontrons tour à tour Padidou et son frère, El Dey, Salima Abada, Democratoz et Malik Bourbia dit Fada Vex.
- "Avec Naomie" is a family story centered around the social Haitian tradition of placing young poor kids from the countryside in wealthier families in the city, to perform various domestic chores. This is the story of the director's cousin.
- A spot light on the soul of Ayiti, Ayiti Pap Peri traveled throughout the country and showed the human and economic potential in Ayiti through the efforts and day to day living of Haitians. The filmmaker Cassandre Thrasybule and her crew, from 2019 to 2023, followed professionals who were living abroad at the time of the deadly 2010 earthquake who decided to go back to Ayiti and work for this country despite numerous challenges.
- The life in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake, seen through the eyes of Deslourdes, an unemployed schoolteacher living in a tent camp, and Jimmy, a 11-year-old street boy.
- More footage considered to be too disturbing to be shown on television.
- GIRLS + EDUCATION = increased economic growth, improved well being of women, and extended life span. This one-hour documentary demonstrates how people of faith can positively impact the problem of educational gender disparity.
- The extraordinary doctors and activists whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.
- Beyond Borders moves past the headlines and takes an in-depth look at the hot-button issues of legal and illegal immigration.
- Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girl, and bad animals.
- Driven to the edge by the death of his wife, a US narcotics agent must return to his native country of Haiti in search of her killers. There, with the help of his eccentric brother, he will be forced to face down an incredible evil, as well as his own demons to enact justice on his wife's killers.
- Brazilian Special troops (Bombagaies) taking control of Haiti Post Presidential conflict in 2004.
- Haitians turned to heaven after the January 12th earthquake. Prayer filled the night before Evangelical preachers began mass conversions describing the earthquake as divine punishment on a sinful nation. "Bondye bon" (God Is Good) describes the battle of three religions: Catholicism, Protestantism and Voodoo. Haiti is in perpetual conflict. Christianity versus Animism! Indoctrination versus Freedom! Dictatorship versus Democracy! From the bishop to the Voodoo priest, from a Protestant minister to a Baptist woman in a displaced-persons camp to the Prime Minister, "Bondye bon" is the story of a failed State and a people seeking the miracle of a possible future.
- CURE International's hospital in the Dominican Republic sent a small crew of first responders to give medical aide in Haiti after the earthquake. This is their story.