Anything can have a personality, including a colored pencil. Created by primary-school students from Portugal, this film is about a family of pencils who come to life through stop-motion animation, and one particular pencil learns how to draw the world

Shocking behind-the-scenes footage reveals the secrets of how to make your quaint, little mountain cabin look "wintery."

What are human rights? This short documentary created by youth producers in Baltimore, Maryland, tells us why they are important for everyone.

A tenth grader asks what is fracking and decides that it's not so good for kids.

You want indomitable spirit? Sixteen-year-old Sam Berns has it in abundance. This impressive young man is not necessarily that young because he has progeria, a rare disease that ages the heart rapidly and kills most by age 13. Despite the challenges, he doesn’t stop trying to live the life of a normal teenager (actually, an exceptional teenager with impressive academic achievements). As fate would have it, his parents are both doctors, and they throw themselves into finding a cure after they are told to simply enjoy their son while they can.

What would it be like to spend a month without the ubiquitous “Made in China” label? What if that month was December? One all-American family accepts this challenge from Chinese immigrant Tom Xia, who moved with his family to the U.S. when he was a child and wanted to explore the relationship of his adopted homeland to the goods coming from his native one.

The wolves featured in this short live in a shelter and have never known life in the wild. But you would never know that by looking into their eyes or listening to their howls, which express a connection to a deep, abiding and mysterious place that has no link with captivity.

This film is a great way for children to learn about the birds and the bees — literally. Wings of Life is the story of pollination, an ongoing dance between flowers and the bees, bats, hummingbirds and butterflies that are essential to life on earth, particularly for humans. Filmed in stunning slow motion by director Louis Schwartzberg, this documentary captures unforgettable images of these creatures.

This film features bloody knuckles, all-out grunt sessions and willful participation in pain. Welcome to the world of off-width crack climbing, a sub-genre that attracts a rare breed willing to jam elbows, knees, torsos — whatever it takes, really — into large cracks for climbing ascents. It’s painful, tough and occasionally downright awful. But two British climbers, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, love it.

“He didn’t see a division between being a photographer or a videographer or a journalist or a humanitarian or a participant. He was just Tim,” says a colleague about Tim Hetherington. Which Way to the Front Line from Here? is a portrait by Sebastian Junger, who co-directed Oscar-nominated Restrepo (Mountainfilm 2010) with Hetherington.