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Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, the documentary describes the lives of heroin addicts.

Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp.

One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Indian social activist Sunitha Krishnan addresses the global problem of sex slavery. She tells some disturbing stories surrounding the issue and then talks about how people often do not wish to become involved with this sad abuse of human rights.

Listen to one of the liveliest debate we've ever heard between Noam Chomsky and Alan M. Dershowitz over ways to find peace in the Israeli Palestinian conflict that has been going on for almost a century now.

Investors, entrepeneurs, and innovators say solutions to global warming lie in the frenetic world of the capitolist marketplace.

Georgetown University Professor John L. Esposito talks with UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler about the complex forces shaping Islam and its relationship with the West.

Delivered six months before the peak of the financial crisis, professor Warren sets out to explain why maintaining a middle class living is a much riskier proposition than it was 40 years ago despite the fact that women have entered the work force.

Explained, is Vox's show on Netflix. Every episode is a dive into a topic that drives our lives or our world.

In this debate hosted by Book TV, authors Mark Bauerlein and Neil Howe argue over what the future may hold for the newest generation of young adults. These "Millenials" as they've come to be called will inherit a world where access to information has accelerated everything...