Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
2019 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Returning Series · National Geographic
Documentary
A six-part documentary series on Global Citizen’s efforts to combat global challenges connected to extreme poverty. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to the root causes of poverty, following a specific Global Citizen campaign and the organizers, amplifiers, grassroots activists and people whose lives are being changed.
Episodes
- S01E01Eradicating Extreme Poverty2019-09-0544m
Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Becky G join Global Citizen in campaigns to push world leaders into enacting policy changes that would end extreme poverty around the globe.
- S01E02Ending Cash Bail2019-09-1244m
Music artists Common and Usher team up with Global Citizen and grassroots organizers as they attempt to achieve historic criminal justice reform by ending the use of cash bail in New York State.
- S01E03Education Cannot Wait2019-09-1944m
Rachel Brosnahan teams up with Global Citizen and travels to the border of Peru to see what happens to children’s education during conflicts and natural disasters.
- S01E04Keeping Girls in School2019-09-2644m
Priyanka Chopra Jonas campaigns to break down barriers to girls’ education. Meanwhile, Gayle King and Bonang Matheba rally tens of thousands of people to call on the South African government to commit $58 million toward ending period poverty and providing girls with the menstrual education and resources.
- S01E05Ending Plastic Pollution2019-10-0344m
Darren Criss and Pharrell Williams call for stopping the flow of plastics into our oceans.
- S01E06Clean Water2019-10-1044m
Uzo Aduba joins Global Citizen as they challenge millions around the world to push for clean drinking water and proper sanitation for the world's most vulnerable people.
