Law Enforcement Torch Run: 30 Years of History

12,000 people, including some 900 children, live in a poor, nameless area between a prison and a private school. An effort is underway to provide critical services for them. (Video via Ursula Forrest)

For too long, people with intellectual disabilities have lived in the shadows. Special Olympics is working to change this. Narrated by Special Olympics athlete Loretta Claiborne. Video courtesy Special Olympics

This trailer from the While I'm Here Project features Ed Nicholson, the founder of Project Healing Waters, through his journey in Montana.

Places Like This is the story of a group of veterans embarking on a six day winter expedition into the Colorado wilderness hoping to use nature to nurture old wounds. Through the Outward Bound program for veterans, eleven strangers come from all over the country seeking peace, answers and direction by using the wilderness as a vessel to carry them both spiritually and physically to reach a peak of more than 13,000 feet. Each veteran will take the same path to a different destination in this visually stunning and emotionally charged documentary short. (Video courtesy Nick McNaughton)

Special Olympics is a unique movement pioneered by a powerful youth community that believes in creating communities of acceptance, dignity, empowerment and joy everyday for people with intellectual disabilities around the world. Video courtesy Special Olympics

An accident had crushed Pascale's dreams of surfing until a family friend came up with an idea. She says: "It's really shown me that you can still have a dream, and things are possible." See her ride the waves in this film by Mark Tipple.