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The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.

A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.

Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.

The story of Camille Lepage, a French photojournalist who was killed at age 26 in the Central African Republic.

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.

Against the backdrop of civil war in the Central African Republic, a Chinese construction manager and local African laborer work on opposite ends of the spectrum to construct a sparkling new bank. As deadlines loom, unexpected twists threaten their jobs, relationships, and plans for a better life.

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)

Explorer, the longest-running documentary series in cable television history, honored with nearly 60 Emmys and hundreds of other awards, continues as a series of major specials on the National Geographic Channel. In the course of more than two thousand films, Explorer has taken viewers to more than 120 countries, opening a window on hidden parts of the world, unlocking mysteries both ancient and modern, and investigating stories of science, nature, and culture.

The filmmaker turns the camera on himself and his friends, capturing their everyday life as students of Bangui University. At once clear-eyed and poetic, they share their thoughts about their future in the Central African Republic.

The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies.

Uganda, 1989. A young rebel who claims to be visited by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a movement against the central power: the LRA, The Lord's Resistance Army. An "army" that grew by kidnapping teenagers - more than 60 000 over 25 years - of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Michael, a group of friends, were among these teenagers, kidnapped at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normality, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they don't fully understand, they are forever the wrong elements which society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the central African jungle, the Ugandan army continues to hunt down the scattered rebels left of the LRA. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.

David Ocitti was just a boy when the rebels attacked his village, killing his father and forcing him to become a soldier in their brutal army. After surviving gunfire in a narrow escape, David finds his way home to northern Uganda, only to be ostracized from friends and family. Years later, determined to help others avoid the same pain, David dedicates his life to reuniting rebel fighters with their families, some after over 20 years at war. We follow David as he boards small planes and rides down remote paths, venturing into active conflict zones to bring home fighters whose families never lost hope in their return. A testament to radical forgiveness and restorative justice, David ultimately embraces the very perpetrators who ripped apart his family and helps them find a second chance at life.

Central African Republic has one of the most extraordinary legal systems in the world. Every year, the government investigates, prosecutes and imprisons hundreds of people for committing the crime of witchcraft. One judge, however, doesn't believe in magic and does everything in his power to get the cases against the accused witches dismissed.

This is the Africa you have never seen - not even in your wildest dreams. Saba Douglas-Hamilton travels way off the beaten path to three African countries which are not on the tourist map. The Comoros Islands, a lost world of volcanoes, living fossils and legendary flying foxes. An extreme road trip into Angola, a country just emerging from one of the world's worst civil wars, to see if any of its wildlife has survived. And the jungles of the Central African Republic.

This documentary shows an outsider community struggling against the odds for education.

Against a backdrop of luminous natural beauty, pierced by callous human violence, an American biologist, a Bayaka tracker, a Bantu eco-guard, and an Israeli security contractor form an unlikely alliance. As their lives converge on the paths of the last wild herd of forest elephants in the Central African Republic, each will be tested by the realities of war and the limits of hope for the majestic animals they have committed their lives to study and protect.

So gigantic the success, so reprehensible the backgrounds. The video of the social campaign 'KONY 2012' of the NPO 'Invisible Children, Inc.' was clicked one hundred million times within a very short time after its publication. But under the pretense of sincere humanitarian intentions against the misdeeds of the alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, this appeal was intended to manipulate public opinion in a manner that led the US government to seek military intervention. This documentary leads to Uganda, the Central African Republic and the United States, and shows what obscure intents - from economic mining interests to religious fundamentalist proselytizing - were actually hide behind the operation of the US military in Africa and the activities of the opaque nonprofit organization with their Christian-right, evangelical financial backers.

While diamonds and gold are traded in a climate of global indifference, a cardinal and an imam are struggling together for peace and inter-religious coexistence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Manuel von Stürler (European Film Award for WINTER NOMADE) questions the living together, the place of human beings in the midst of econo- mic and political interests.

Fabienne, faced with her child's health problem and the irresponsibility of her husband, decides to look for work. She ends up as a motorcycle driver, which displeases her husband, who wants her to take care only of housework and children.

Father Bernard Kinvi, a Catholic priest in Bossemptele in the Central African Republic, has provided refuge and health services to those on both sides of the civil war in the Central African Republic through his mission in Bossemptele.

Follows a traditional African buffalo bow hunting party in Central Africa.