Camaran Henson grew up thinking his grandfather possessed super powers. Now that his grandfather is gone, Camaran remembers large and small ways the man lived up to his legendary status.

What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture?

The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman leads a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.

On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy…

An unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, told by the activists leading the movement.

"Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied rises above the 'deeply personal' — far above it — in exploring what it means to be black and gay."

These women want to play professional football. Make that full contact, NFL-style, smash-mouth football.

One of a selection of hypnotically engaging short films by and about women offers vivid and lyrical pictures of joy, endurance and inspiration.

Despite Taliban threats, a Pakistani woman becomes one of the top female squash players.

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they…