(September 18, 2003) "The Dammed" raises important questions about the costs and consequences of modernization and development, as the global community re-evaluates the social and environmental impacts of large dam projects.

India's Enduring Hindu-Muslim Contest: From the Indus Valley Civilization to the conflict in Kashmir.

Learn more about Hinduism and Islam in India from these additional resources.

The relations between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, of course, is part of the larger conflict between India and Pakistan.

The bloody conflict between Hindus and Muslims in northwestern India is at the forefront of a struggle for India's identity.

Learn more about the ancient history that begets modern violence.

(September 19, 2002) The bloody conflict between Hindus and Muslims in northwestern India is at the forefront of a struggle for India's identity. The film focuses in part on the efforts of India's supercop, K.P.S. Gill, a Sikh, sent by the federal government to quell the violence in Gujarat and on Harish Bhatt, a leader of the Bajrang Dal or Monkey Brigade, India's largest Hindu youth movement.

Ten years ago, filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino began recording the lives of eight newborn babies from around the world. In 1992, world leaders met in Brazil for the Earth Summit on sustainable development. There they made plans and promises to conquer the global problems of overpopulation, over-consumption and poverty. In the ten years since, Sorrentino has revisited the children repeatedly and recorded how their lives have been affected by the issues discussed at Rio.