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Spring 2010
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The End of the Line 
The first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans. Based on the book by Charles Clover.
Let's Make Money
Erwin Wagenhofer's incredible odyssey tracking our money through the worldwide finance system.
Big River
Companion film to KING CORN about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture.
Black Wave
The story of the Exxon Valdez and the 20-year legal battle to get restitution from ExxonMobil.
What's the Economy for, Anyway?
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.
What's On Your Plate?
A witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics.
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Fall 2009
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The Suzuki Diaries
David Suzuki and daughter Sarika travel to Europe to visit inspiring people and projects that give hope for a sustainable future.
For the Love of Movies
For the Love of Movies is the first documentary to dramatize the history of American film criticism and to explore its role in the evolution of American film.
Early Life
How irrevocably are we shaped by the first few years of our lives? Early Life explores the arguments through the stories of young children and their families in four different continents.
All In This Tea
Crusading American tea importer, David Lee Hoffman, supports China's endangered organic farmers by searching out fine, chemical-free teas.
Homo Toxicus
Explores the links between the hundreds of toxic pollutants in our environment and increasing health problems.
A Sea Change
Ocean acidification threatens over one million species with extinction--and with them, our entire way of life.
A Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.
Split Estate
Documents the devastating effect that oil and gas drilling is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.
The Yes Men Fix The World
Two daring political activists, posing as top executives, infiltrate conferences and pull off pranks designed to provoke better business practices.
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Spring 2009
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA.
Game Over:
Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.
Milking the Rhino
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline.
Passage
A brilliantly innovative telling of the story of Dr. John Rae who discovered the awful truth about the fate of the Franklin Expedition's attempt to find the Northwest Passage.
A Snowmobile For George
A rambunctious road trip reveals the toll that environmental deregulation has had on the lives of ordinary people.
The Strangest Dream
The inspiring story of Joseph Rotblat and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences to halt nuclear proliferation.
Torturing Democracy
Tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11.
Virtual JFK
A filmic examination of "virtual history." What would Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had lived and been re-elected in 1964?
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Fall 2008
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Addicted to Plastic
Reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity and explores solutions.
American Outrage
Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.
Cheat Neutral
Satirical look at the inadequacies of the concept of carbon offsetting.
Diamond Road
Examines every facet of the diamond trade from the prospectors to the miners, cutters, jewelers, smugglers and dealers, and advocates for fair trade.
Good Food
An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest.
kids + money
Money talks. Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it.
Life 6
A new 11-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face as their countries struggle to meet the UN's MDGs.
Secrecy
A brilliant visual essay about the costs, benefits and history of the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.
Soldiers of Conscience
To kill or not to kill? For some the war is within.
Water First
An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Weather Report
A report from the front lines of climate change in Kenya, India, Canada, the Arctic, China, and Montana where people's lives have already been dramatically altered.
Weather The Storm
Fishing communities on France's western coast show the path to sustainability.
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Spring 2008
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The American Ruling Class
A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on class in America that attempts to answer the question 'Who rules America?'
Argentina: Turning Around
An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
Build Green
David Suzuki reports on a wide range of green buildings, from large community developments to mini-homes.
The Dhamma Brothers
An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.
Everything's Cool
Examines the media strategies, on both sides, that have resulted in the US government's failure to take decisive action on global warming.
The Greening of Southie
The story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible.
King Corn
By growing an acre of corn in Iowa two friends uncover the devastating impact that corn is having on the environment, public health and family farms.
No Bigger Than A Minute
Director Steven Delano explores dwarfism through images from movies, paintings, and popular culture and through his own experience as a "little person".
The Return of the Cuyahoga
The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
The War on Democracy
John Pilger reports that, in spite of a history of repeated US-backed suppression, popular democratic movements are gaining ground in Latin America.
The Water Front
The story of Highland Park, Michigan, and the larger issues of water privatization and human rights.
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Fall 2007
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Arid Lands
A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.
Cuba: The Accidental Revolution - Pt. 1
Examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989.
Cuba: The Accidental Revolution - Pt. 2
In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success story around the world.
Fighting Fire With Fire
Raises questions about conventional methods of fighting fire, and whether decades of suppressing fire have simply made matters worse.
John James Audubon
The life story of one of America's singular pioneers, artist and naturalist John James Audubon.
Kabul Transit
A street-level documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated by nearly three decades of war.
The Motherhood Manifesto
Looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.
Raised to be Heroes
Through the example of Israeli Refuseniks we learn what happens when soldiers act out of conscience.
This is Emily Yeung
13-part children's series (with a bonus holiday episode) in which the delightful 6-year-old Emily explores the world around her.
Translation Possible
Using a simple filmic device, this film illustrates the disorientation we all feel on encountering a new culture, and the way we gradually learn to fit in.
We Feed the World
Vividly reveals the dysfunctionality of the industrialized world food system and shows what world hunger has to do with us.
Wolves in Paradise
Ranchers and environmentalists team up to protect open space from developers and to learn how to share with wolves this last wild corner of the West.
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