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Through the lens of a 'citizen with a camera', WHO U.S.? examines the isolationist nature of U.S. culture, education, and boldly asks: What would happen if we looked into a mirror?

Clad in a bullet-proof vest, for his protection, Bishop Gene Robinson was consecrated as the world's first openly gay bishop. He was the only Bishop not invited to the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Bishops, and the only bishop Barak Obama selected to deliver the invocation at the inaugural weekend of his presidential election. In the face of a changing government, here in Australia - as our own politicians struggle with God and the concept of same sex marriage - Bishop Gene Robinson arrives with the unequivocal message; that it's going to take religious people to undo the harm that religious people have done.

Soledad O'Brien takes us inside a unique women's prison where babies are raised behind bars. 1 in 15 women enter prison in America pregnant. Typically, the mother is stripped from her newborn within 24 hours of birth, causing possible lifelong trauma to the child and mother. At the Washington Correction Center for women, inmates are able to live with their newborn for up to two years. Through this bonding the women are more motivated to turn their lives around. We follow Kristie Ebey, a newly incarcerated mother, as she fights to get into the program and keep her baby with her and Margaret Taggert who is just leaving the program with her toddler, facing the outside world for the first time as a single mother.

Weinan returns to China after being expelled from school in the UK, following his fathers advice he enrolls to a local university in Shanghai as a part-time student. Without much understanding of Chinese society and the way of life, Weinan chooses Sociology as his major subject and he is assigned to write a report based on the modern Chinese life. Weinan decides to write about his own father who is the dean of the university.

Young Sergey is an openly gay activist in Belarus and has endured violence from police and skinheads. When his boyfriend is shot on the border he begins his fight for gay equality. Preparing for a defiant stand on the streets of the nation's capital Minsk, Sergey and a few brave activists brace to show their PRIDE against the last dictatorship in Europe.

A public service announcement on fraternity hazing showing the lives of four characters who are all guilty based on their actions.