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The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

A rough trucker assigns his new truck and its mysterious cargo to his newest employee, only to see it hijacked by one of his experienced drivers. Now, his friends are after him to retrieve the goods. Are 100,000 dollars worth dying for?

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

In the Mopti region of Mali, Lieutenant Anaïs Collet's section, deployed as part of Operation Barkhane, is dedicated to tracking down terrorists. However, an ambush rekindles tensions between the military and the Malian population.

A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.

The film is about a project from Christopher Kirkleys called "Sahel Sounds". He owns an independent label and travels through the Sahel area in Africa, to find musician with an unique sound. The music he uses for his vinyl publication is often in low audio quality but authentic. The plot shows the whole process, from negotiating a fair deal with musician to producing the vinyl. He also organizes European tours, in the movie he is on a trip with Mamman Sani and Mdou Moctar, two musician who were found by Kirkleys in Niger.

Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate farmer from Burkina Faso has transformed the lives of thousands of people across West Africa. Over cinematic reconstruction Sawadogo tells his incredible story of his battle with nature and man.

In 2013, the third inter communal civil war broke out in the Central African Republic (CAR). The conflict was marked by numerous abuses against civilians. Among them, the Fulani. More than 40,000 of them fled to Chad, including 280 in the village of Niergui. Mahamat, Yobandé, Ousmane, Halime - are telling their stories through the lens of their camera.

A documentary on the motivational power of music and musicians who are confronting a radical political agenda, such as the type occurring in the north of Mali.

"Climate unites people through culture." In Eurasia large swathes of similar climate lead to contiguous peoples living with a similar life style and eventually uniting and developing. In Africa fragmented climates lead to small fragmented societies with little interaction to encourage development.

During the time of the Gondwana subcontinent scientists believe the Amazon river flowed west from central Africa, across South America and into the Pacific. As the Atlantic Ocean formed between the continents and the Andes Mountains rose the Amazon reversed direction to flow east across South America into the new Atlantic ocean as it does today. But the African environment is radically different and the river has dried up making the course of the ancient river difficult to determine. The environmental changes also lead to radically different human cultures in South America and Africa.

The temperature and rainfall in the Sahara are closely tied to glaciation which impacts the global water supply. Scientists have documented some 200 Interglacial periods when water was prevalent in the Sahara. The last period came at a critical time for human civilization.

Coups have become so common place that they can be reduced to a formula. The easy part is infiltrating and disposing the established government. Then comes the big bluff; convincing your nation you are now the legitimate authority. Then comes the hard part; effectively governing so you don't become the victim of a counter-coup.