The Best Videojournalism Stories of 2009 ... Celebrating excellence in video, journalism and storytelling. View

Retired Navy officer Rick Koca founded Stand Up for Kids to help homeless teens. In the process of changing their lives, he reinvented his own. (AARP) View

After 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred, thousands of surviving women contracted HIV and bore children as a result of being raped. (MediaStorm) View

Prizewinning photographer Steve Winter roams the upper altitudes of northern India in pursuit of the notoriously camera-shy feline. (National Geographic) View

Get inside the creative process in Studio 4A, and watch as each musician writes and records a new composition in just two days. (NPR) View

In-depth, five-year graphic ground-level retrospective of the Iraq war, as dramatic as anything Hollywood could imagine. (Reuters / MediaStorm) View

Poet Kwame Dawes explores how HIV/AIDS has shaped the lives of islanders in an artful award-winning multimedia package. View

A survivor of the genocide in Rwanda records the testimony of more than 400 women and girls abused by marauding militias. (The Guardian) View

American reporter Edwin Okong'o travels to his home in Kenya to find out how his countrymen are rejoicing about Barack Obama. Frontline) View

A young woman suicide bomber trains to further the cause of Sri Lankan rebels. (Frontline) View

Former NFL receiver and All-American college star returns to his Michigan hometown to coach and re-energize his high school football team. (Detroit Free Press) View