Al Jazeera America Presents

A photographer explores the human relationship with modern cities, using the magic of time-lapse to capture what architecture reveals about our past, present and future.

Teen bootcamps: a booming industry worth over $2 billion, catering primarily to worried parents. While there are well run and regulated camps, shocking reports of cruelty, neglect, abuse and deaths have emerged. This documentary looks at why growing numbers of parents continue to send their children to camps and whether they work.

Soledad O'Brien visits The John Paul Taylor Center in New Mexico, a Juvenile detention facility once known as a violent warehouse for the states toughest juvenile offenders. Today, an experiment is taking place. Can therapy, counseling and education prove to be more effective than punishment? An intimate portrait of the U.S.'s forgotten youth.

A 6-part documentary series for AJAM that puts aside economic debates and follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on $8, $10 or $15 an hour. The series turns an intimate lens on this group of 21st century American dreamers as they fight against all odds to thrive when it takes everything they have to simply survive.

Omar Khadr is a 26 year old Canadian who has been at the center of controversy since he was fifteen as the youngest person in captivity at Guantanamo. Here Omar speaks for the first time since returning home.

Soledad O'Brien tracks an American journey unlike any other – never-before-told stories of some of America's bravest warriors, Medal of Honor winners, whose proper acknowledgement took decades to be claimed.

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000 year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition from a Chinese mining company.

10 years after the catastrophic events surrounding hurricane Katrina, the film looks back at how the Big Easy has changed since then. It is an evocative story of survival inspired by the uplifting and connective power of music.

Through these American families, we grasp that childhood and high school sports are still the bridge to attaining the American Dream…. for the child as well as the parent.

In the wake of Pope Francis's historical excommunication of all Mafiosi in June 2014, historian and Mafia expert John Dickie investigates the unholy ties that have bound the Catholic Church to organized crime. He will track down the priests who have cozied up with mobsters and meet others who are risking their lives for standing up against them.

Heroin is no longer an inner-city plague. It is now hitting middle America—and hitting it hard. The new face of the heroin addict -- young, suburban, white. Soledad O'Brien follows the lives of several young heroin addicts from the Cincinnati suburbs as they battle their addiction.

A former gang member, now an interventionist and a social worker meet in their South Central community and fall in love. They make the decision not to leave but to stay, to fight to make it a better place. But when old criminal charges catch up with Max, Daisy needs to forge a new path without him and finds her family torn apart.

An intimate journey into an organization where veterans once shattered by war make a difference and care for their fellow veterans who find themselves returned, yet lost, damaged and homeless.

In the wake of the Paris attacks, a look at the community everyone is afraid of but we rarely hear from ... young Muslims in a suburb of Brussels. As violence continues to spread throughout the Middle East, a growing number of young Muslims from all over Europe are leaving their home towns to fight for ISIS.