RTL Spezial

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.

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?

Fifteen years ago, Indian Sadhu Swami Shivananda had a metaphysical experience. He claims to have received instructions from God. His orders were to take up the gauntlet of Eco activism to protect the world's most sacred river - the Ganges. Clearly, this is no ordinary environmental protest. 'Satyagraha' tells the story of a group of humble Sadhus who have taken on a corrupt government, a paid off police force, and a powerful mining mafia to protect the holiness of the Ganges River. They have been threatened, beaten, jailed and bribed. Two have died. Both were murdered, or so they believe. Satyagraha follows the hunger strike of Swami Shivanand as he fights the mafia and attempts to find justice for his murdered disciple.

This is a remarkable story about the Cape Fur Seal and Francois Hugo "Seal Man" the full time, self styled seal guardian and protector, living on the Southern tip of Africa, trying to save a threatened species, which is under attack on many fronts, by any means possible.

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.

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.