DOC-DEBUT
Category: Documentaries
A weekly series on Link TV, DOC-DEBUT highlights unique and groundbreaking international documentary films. Each week features the U.S. television premiere of a new foreign doc.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: An Armenian Homecoming
Category: Documentaries
An Armenian family, driven out of Turkey during the genocide of 1915, returns to their family homeland, determined to find their old house, the church where their parents were married and to find out more about their family’s history.

The Substitute - Watch Online!
Category: Documentaries
The story of a young and ambitious teacher Max and his old and strict teacher Folke who try, each in their own way, to get a wild ninth grade class in a Swedish suburb through their final exams. Now available to watch online!

A Nun's New Habit - Watch Online!
Category: Documentaries
Follow the adventures of Sister Carmel Wauchope, a nun who kicked off her habit some 20 years ago, but who now has found a new habit at the forefront of the fight to help refugees incarcerated in detention centers.

Global Spirit: Forgiveness and Healing
This episode explores forgiveness and healing on a personal and societal level. Watch as a group of Vietnam vets comes to terms with their actions, and as a father forgives his son's murderer.

GLOBAL LENS: Dam Street (Hong Yan)
Category: World Cinema
In China in 1983, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun finds herself pregnant and expelled from school. Ten years later, she still lives in the same town, and has a young friend who tries desperately to protect her from the judgmental community.

Abel Raises Cain - Watch Now Online!
Category: Documentaries
This doc offers a glimpse into the bizarre and hilarious career of the infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel. The complete film is available to watch online, now through December 5th!

The Corporal's Diary
Category: Documentaries
Young corporal Jonathan Santos documented his 37 days in Iraq on video and in writing, never knowing that day 38 would be his last. Through Jonathan’s handwritten words and videotape, the film tells a personal and profound story.

Bridge to Iran: Dream of Silk
Category: Documentaries
Young girls at an Iranian all-girls high school talk about their dreams for the future in this Bridge to Iran doc. This is a candid exploration of the young girls' aspirations and hopes, at a powerful and fleeting point in their lives.

Bridge to Iran: Zinat - One Special Day
Category: Documentaries
Zinat lives an ordinary Iranian woman's life, cooking and tending to her home. But this doesn't stop her from running against a man in the local municipality elections, with the support of family and friends.

Bridge to Iran: President Mir Qanbar
Category: Documentaries
Mir Qanbar is a 74-year-old retiree looking to win an elected position in Iran's government. This beautifully filmed doc shows the off-beat presidential campaign of an old man making his last stab for political power.

GLOBAL LENS: Whisky
Category: World Cinema
Jacobo is the dull and and dour owner of a sock factory. He rarely shares words with the manager, Marta. Until he asks her to be his wife - that is, in pretense - to deceive his brother.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Gladiator Women
Category: Documentaries
Marta El Alto confronts Jennifer Two Face in a wrestling ring in La Paz, Bolivia. But there's more at stake than the prize money. Marta represents the underclass - little wonder then that she gets the biggest cheers.

Al Jazeera English - Witness: Blind Cricket
Category: Documentaries
Witness explores cricket for the visually impaired - a game that's giving many blind people in Nepal a new lease on life. Introduced to Nepal by an army captain, cricket fulfills a personal quest of his to show the blind aren't useless.

Special: Profits or Plunder?
Category: Documentaries
With the subprime loan market imploding, banks failing, and the government stepping in with bailouts, the days of easy credit are over. What will this mean for ordinary Americans? Danny Schechter joins us to present his film "In Debt We Trust".

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