Rebel Music

Going beyond the war-torn media headlines, these brave young optimists give audiences a glimpse into a rich culture evolving under intense pressure.

Rebel Music was on the ground in the midst of Egypt's Arab Spring and the protests that followed, telling the stories of a few courageous young people working to revolutionize mindsets that have tainted their nation.

Rebel Music goes beyond newspaper headlines to hear the stories of the musicians, writers and visual artists at the heart of the struggle in the West Bank.

Rebel Music examines a defiant generation of musicians in Bamako who are rising up and rallying their countrymen for a return to democracy and freedom.

Local musicians confront the drug-related bloodshed that turned Tijuana into a warzone post-9/11, and work to turn the town into one of Mexico's cultural havens.