Documentaries for the IB Learner

Recently my MYPC told me about a documentary on DW called "Will Germany's car industry survive?". I watched it over the weekend and thought it was perfect for our Grade 9 design unit on car design, but also that many of our other students would love it, especially as live in Stuttgart and many parents are working in the car industry! My MYPC and I discussed giving students more opportunities to watch documentaries in their advisory class.

In an advisory session coming soon(ish), the class will have the opportunity to pick a documentary to watch together. To help them come to a consensus, one of the ways they will have to justify the selection, is by saying why the documentary is useful for an IB Learner. Here they can use the IB Learner Profile, Mission or AtL skills to justify their selection. If they can't unanimously agree on one documentary, then the homeroom teacher will make the call.

The ATL focus is: Research Skills - Media Literacy: Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences

They can pick any documentary they want. It could be from a youtuber they love or something they have seen on TV.  Below are some options of places to look, along with some examples of documentaries. Our advisory sessions are an hour long, so it should give them time to find, discuss, pick, watch and reflect!
Documentary Sources
DW Documentaries
“DW Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch high-class documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs a”

• People smuggling in Germany - a multibillion-dollar business (28 mins 27 secs)
• Refugees stranded in Greece (25 mins 55 secs)
• Rwanda - 25 years after the genocide (28 mins 25 secs)
• Slavery in Italy? (28 mins 26 secs)
• Will Germany's car industry survive? (28 mins 31 secs)
• Women's football in India (26 mins 01 secs)

Global Oneness Project
“We aim to connect, through stories, the local human experience to global meta-level issues, such as climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity, poverty, endangered cultures, migration, and sustainability.”

• Alive & Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa (19 mins 38 secs)
• Living Service - The Slums of Ahmedabad (16 mins 43 secs)
• Not Just a Piece of Cloth - a volunteer-run urban recycling center in New Delhi (7 mins 05 secs)
• We Became Fragments -A story about a Syrian teenager Ibraheem Sarhan as he comes of age in Winnipeg, Canada. (12 mins 32 secs)
• While I Yet Live - Meet five African American women who are acclaimed quilters and freedom-fighters (15 mins)

Guardian Documentaries
Documentaries from the Guardian newspaper

• The Climate and the Cross (23 mins 01 secs)
• Little Pyongyang - A North Korean in South London (24 mins 02 secs)
• Silent Sam - The Mute Punk Singer (20 mins 56 secs)
• Trapped in the city of a thousand mountains - rap in China (20 mins 37 secs)

NY Times Op-Ed Videos
Short documentaries from the NY Times. All documentaries have an accompanying article linked below.

• Death Metal Grandma (12 mins 35 secs)
• Searching for Saraswati (19 mins 42 secs)
• Six Degrees of Immigration (12 mins 07 secs)
• Stonewall: The Making of a Monument (18 mins 36 secs)
• Tungrus and the Chicken From Hell (12 mins 36 secs)

Here's a link to the document. Feel free to make a copy for your students.

LASTLY - Please comment or tweet me links to other sources of good documentaries! I want to give my students a lot of choice, and also have documentaries being made/produced in different parts of the world. 

EDIT!
My MYPC suggested adding a reflection linking to the Global Context! I've made this document to guide the homeroom teachers through this!