WorldView Magazine: Documentaries

June 26, 2026

The Stream: Spring/Summer 2026 – Streaming Video

STREAMING VIDEO Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare HBO This documentary revisits the 2011 Fukushima disaster and its lasting impact on communities, environment, and policy. Moving beyond the initial crisis, it looks at what recovery means years later through the lives of those living with its consequences. My Father and Qaddafi PBS / POV This film traces one family's connection to Libya through the legacy of Muammar Qaddafi. What begins as a personal search becomes a broader look at power, memory, and the long shadow of political rule. Everybody to Kenmure Street BBC This film captures a moment when residents in Glasgow...

February 13, 2026

Champions of the Golden Valley

Champions of the Golden Valley is a heart-warming new documentary produced by RPCV Baktash Ahadi that follows Alishah Farhang, a skier who, after failing to qualify for the Olympics as Afghanistan's first winter Olympian, returns home to start a ski club in his mountain village. 

October 11, 2023

Hey, There’s A Peace Corps!

In September 22, 2019, A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Directed by filmmaker Alana DeJoseph (Mali 1992–94) the documentary focuses on Peace Corps history along with its past and current struggles. Nearly four years after the film’s premiere, NPCA communications intern Megan Dial interviewed DeJoseph just before the documentary aired nationwide on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in September. Megan Dial: This edition of WorldView magazine focuses on the meaning of service. In a previous article (Summer 2015), you said Peace Corps acts as a prism for some of the nation’s hardest questions, such as the notion of service. What does service mean to...

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