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In Mexico’s heartland, a community is mourning the deaths of three girls from leukemia, all in the span of a year. Elia, the local kindergarten teacher, and Nely, a mother who nearly lost her newborn, form a group of women seeking an investigation. They’re met with resistan...

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The Water Rats captures the adventures of twelve strangers from diverse walks of life––mixed ages, ethnicities, and interests––as they unite and grow into a motley crew of outlaws swimming in the wild cold waters of London's Hampstead Heath during (and in spite of) the firs...

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In this intimate 41-minute documentary, visionary space architect Constance Adams gives her final interview, reflecting on a career devoted to helping humans thrive in extreme environments. From designing skyscrapers for Kenzo Tange to developing habitat concepts for NASA m...

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Doug Peacock, the model for Hayduke in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, has been a legendary figure in the US environmental movement for the last 25 years.

Doug served in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic, trying to preserve life on the edge of the battlefield. He came ...

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SAVE THE PLANET is a fast-paced montage film history of the atomic age and the escalating debate over nuclear power, featuring striking footage by noted cinematographer Gerald Feil and The Archives Project (producers of The Atomic Cafe).

This unique documentary was shown b...

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THE LAST RESORT chronicles the fight over the controversial nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire, in the late 1970s.

On August 1,1976, eighteen New Hampshire citizens were arrested for occupying the newly-bulldozed site. Nine months later, more than 2,000 people ...

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On George Washington's birthday, February 22nd in 1974, Sam Lovejoy – a 27-year-old farmer – toppled a 500-foot weather tower in Montague, Massachusetts. The tower had been erected by the local utility as part of their attempt to build one of the largest nuclear power plant...

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"...And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"

The sights and sounds of Vietnam still carry an unforgettable impact on our collective memories. This moving long-form music video brings us closer to the reality of the Vietnam War and its aftermath by combining the...

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In Switzerland's Langnau am Albis, a suburb of Zurich, children 4 to 7 years of age go to kindergarten in the woods every day, no matter what the weather. This eye-opening film follows the forest kindergarten through the seasons of one school year and looks into the importa...

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GROUNDSWELL RISING gives voice to ordinary folks engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas. We meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction process known as fracking that puts p...

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OIL & WATER is the coming of age story of two boys as they each confront one of the world's worst toxic disasters, the prolonged contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon by Texaco and other oil companies. Hugo comes to America to fight for the survival of his tribe, the Cofán...

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SHADOWS OF LIBERTY reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.

Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, the...

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Bill Mollison is a practical visionary. For three decades, he traveled the globe spreading the word about permaculture, the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, water manag...

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THE MYSTERY OF CHACO CANYON examines the deep enigmas presented by the massive prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. It is the summation of 20 years of research. The film reveals that between 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people designed and c...

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This classic, timeless film documents the extraordinary celestial calendar created by ancient North American Indians, and rediscovered by artist Anna Soafer, high on a butte in New Mexico.

The "dagger" is presently the only known site in the world that marks the extreme po...

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Behind the high security towers and double row of barbed wire and electrical fence at Donaldson Correction Facility dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison...

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TAR CREEK is the story of the worst environmental disaster you've never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund site. Once one of the largest lead and zinc mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now home to more than 40 square miles of environmental devastation in northeastern Oklahom...

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BETWEEN JOYCE AND REMEMBRANCE is a hard-hitting documentary about truth and reconciliation in South Africa, focusing on the family of the tortured, poisoned and murdered student activist, Siphiwo Mtimkulu.

Producer Mark Kaplan spent seven years documenting the lives of Joy...

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This film examines the lives and deaths of Maine author Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their book about homesteading practices called "Living the Good Life". More than a biography, this hour-long documentary looks at the Nearings' commitment t...

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The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a ke...

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SHIFT CHANGE: PUTTING DEMOCRACY TO WORK tells the little known stories of employee-owned businesses that compete successfully in today's economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces.

With the long decline in US manufacturing and today's economic ...

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Only one third of the waste in the United States is recycled or composted. Why? Industry, through its practice of planned obsolescence, plays a major role; our lives are almost totally dependent on unrecyclable petroleum products. In order to reach zero waste, we need to ch...

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Through the inspiring story of Charles Banda, a humble Malawian fireman turned waterman, we see how water is a solution to many of the problems in this impoverished, sub-Saharan country.

From hunger and poverty to women's equality and population control, HIV/AIDS to enviro...

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On South Whidbey Island in the state of Washington, a school farm involves children from kindergarten through high school in every phase of raising organic vegetables as part of their school experience.

Supported by local non-profits, community volunteers, and the school d...

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Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and creator of the renowned Stanford Prison Experiment. Daniel Ellsberg served in the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and is best known as the whistleblower who released documents...

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This award-winning "bombshell" documentary covers the impact of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted residents, TRIPLE DIVIDE [REDACTED] covers five years (20...

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For centuries, the Cuyahoga River has been on the frontier. When the United States was a new nation, the river literally marked the western frontier. But "civilization" came to the river; by 1870 the river was on the industrial frontier. On the river's banks sprouted a mult...

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The recent expansion of Navy training activities in the Northwest has many local residents concerned. Will more of our communities become collateral damage?

Community members on Whidbey Island, the San Juans, and the Olympic Peninsula are disturbed by an increase in noise ...

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OUR MOCKINGBIRD uses Harper Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice — both then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two extraordinarily different high schools in Birmingham, Alabama — one black, one white — who ...

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SYMBIOTIC EARTH: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a brilliant and radical scientist, whose unconventional theories challenged the male-dominated scientific community and are today fundamental...

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Part hermit, part biologist, Doug Stewart and Stan Hutchings are among the last of the "Guardians." Living on boats full-time in one of the last pristine frontiers of the world, they carefully monitor salmon populations—the backbone of the ecosystem, economy, and culture al...

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Filmmaker Soozie Eastman has just learned that hundreds of synthetic toxins are now found in every baby born in America, and neither the chemical companies who manufacture and market them nor a confusing patchwork of U.S. government agencies seem able or willing to protect ...

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Human Terrain is two stories in one. The first exposes a new Pentagon effort to enlist the best and the brightest in a struggle for hearts and minds. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military initiates Human Terrain Systems—a controversial program that see...

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En 1948 Costa Rica abolió su ejército y cultivó diversas relaciones para garantizar su seguridad a través de leyes y organismos internacionales.

Libre de la carga de los gastos militares, Costa Rica creó un sistema de salud universal, acceso gratuito a la educación uni...

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In his famous "Cross of Iron" speech in 1953, President Eisenhower critiqued the military-industrial complex while asking, "Is there no other way the world may live?" In Costa Rica today, we glimpse another way to live.

In 1948, Costa Rica dismantled their military establi...

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THE SEQUEL: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization? shines a light on the work and legacy of David Fleming, a historian, economist, and ecologist with a deep understanding of how our prevailing economic systems have guided and defined our present society—and a compellin...

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"You cannot walk away unmoved." —Bill Moyers

When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her private persona, her convictions about the risks pose...

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Combining rare footage from inside the war machine with corrosive commentary by military officials and leading critics of global violence, injustice, and inequality, PROJECT Z examines emerging global security challenges through the prism of a zombie crisis—from climate cha...

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OYSTER captures the daily routines, chaos and drama in the lives of Dom and Pip Boyton, a lively and hard-working second generation oyster farming family on Merimbula Lake on the southeast coast of New South Wales, Australia.

The film watches as Dom and Pip juggle the dema...

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Born in the California Gold Rush, Nevada City was once the scene of some of the most destructive environmental practices on earth. By the 1960s, the town was a backwater, its extractive industries dying. Then it was discovered by the "back to the land movement." It was a seco...

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When Terry and Monique left the opera to pursue their true passion—ecological, small-scale farming—their story of community and resilience took center stage. FROM SEED TO SEED follows their young family and a diverse group of farmers in Southern Manitoba, for a season of ch...

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LOVE & SOLIDARITY: James Lawson & Nonviolence In The Search For Workers' Rights is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in sou...

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Written and directed by Emily Squires, THE ART OF BEING HUMAN is an inspirational portrait of the artist Frederick Franck, author of "The Zen of Seeing."

Born on the border of Holland and Belgium, where both World Wars began, Franck witnessed firsthand the horrors of moder...

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Join award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. Farrand was responsible for some of the most celebrated gardens in the United States and help...

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Drawing on interviews with veteran activists like Civil Rights leader Bernard Lafayette, scientists like behaviorist Frans de Waal and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, political scientist Erica Chenoweth, futurist Elisabet Sahtouris and others, T...

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Me2/Orchestra is the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them.

Once Music Director Ronald Braunstein’s diagnosis of bipolar disorder was made public, his acclaimed international conducting career came to ...

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NO TIME TO WASTE: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin celebrates the inspiring life and work of the late Betty Reid Soskin, at one time the oldest person to serve as a ranger for the National Park Service. Her "urgent mission" was to restore critical missing chapters of...

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Allergies, obesity, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune and intestinal disorders are all on the rise. New research points to changes in the ecosystem of microbes that live on and inside every one of us -- our microbiomes -- as a major cause. But how could one's gut microbes incre...

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CIRCUIT EARTH was produced in honor of the first Earth Day in 1970. Shot throughout Philadelphia during Earth Week in the lead up to festival, and at the festival itself, the film features community groups, citizens, and celebrities—all reflecting on the crisis facing the p...

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In April 1970, the first Earth Day in Philadelphia was actually a week-long celebration for Mother Earth.

Remastered in 2K from an original 16mm print, WALKING ON WATER WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY was shot in and around the city, with cameo appearances and observations by the li...

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Originally a Danish creation, the concept of cohousing struggled to gain popularity in its country of origin for years. That is, until a film was made that explained its merits and the way it enhanced people's lives. Now, documentary filmmaker John de Graaf has created a me...

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By exploring the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world, CONNECTIVITY PROJECT highlights how science and different cultures and traditions from around the world embrace the importance of interconnectedness. As we follow inspiring individuals who are making...

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Filmed in 1973, and based on Frances Moore Lappé's best-selling book DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET, this short documentary features Lappé, author Ellen Buchman Ewald and nutritionist/biochemist Dr. Kendall King as they discuss and explore the nutritional value of pro...

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Photographed in the blue waters of the Bahamas in 1979, BABYSWIM is a joyful, impressionistic look at a swim class for infants aged 6 months to 21 months!

Mothers and babies are having the time of their lives—in pools and in the ocean, by day and by night, on diving boards...

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Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on timber workers' lives and families as she did on the legacy and future of the trees. But that strategic relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three ...

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IN SEARCH OF THE EDGE: An Inquiry into the Shape of the Earth and the Disappearance of Andrea Barns is a comprehensive documentary proving—fairly conclusively—that the Earth is flat.

Humorous, thought-provoking, and at once both absurdist and matter of fact, it presents a ...

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Nestled in the hills southeast of Rome lies the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. One wing of this palace serves as the headquarters for the Vatican Observatory, where since 1891 Jesuit astronomers and astrophysicists have applied their scientific expertise to fun...

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AFFLUENZA is a classic, groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and...

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Consumers love – and live on – their smartphones, tablets and laptops. A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising even better communication, non-stop entertainment and instant information. The numbers are staggering. By 2020, four billion people wil...

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We were never supposed to know her name. Mary Harris Jones was a poor Irish immigrant who survived famine and war, fire and plague. Unable to save her husband or their four small children from yellow fever, she dedicated her life to saving working families everywhere. The r...

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THE BOYS WHO SAID NO! is the first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War. The film shows how their personal and collective acts of nonviolent resistance, risking arrest and imprisonment fo...

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In one short decade, we have totally changed the way we interact with one another. The millennial generation, the first to be socialized in a digital world, is now feeling the unintended consequences.

CELLING YOUR SOUL is a powerful and informative examination of how our y...

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Building on his ground-breaking SYMBIOTIC EARTH John Feldman's new film, REGENERATING LIFE, takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis. It offers a deeper look at the underlying causes of global warming, going beyond carbon emissions from the burning of f...

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Between 1964 and 1973, in an offshoot of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military dropped 4 billion pounds of explosives on Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita on the planet. Up to 30 percent of those bombs did not detonate, and they remain in the Laotian s...

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Ecosophia, a term first used by French philosopher Félix Guattari and deep ecologist Arne Næss, means "ecological wisdom."

In ECOSOPHIA, a new documentary by Australian filmmaker Peter Downey, we explore the interrelation between energy, the economy, resources, population,...

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Filmed over 3 years in China’s electronics zones Shenzhen and Guangzhou, COMPLICIT follows the story of Yi Yeting, a Chinese factory worker struggling with occupational leukemia and trying to obtain compensation from his employer.

Wanting to help others, he begins working ...

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For almost 40 years, partners Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle.

Through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), Edain ...

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WRITTEN ON THE LANDSCAPE: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon conveys to viewers the brilliant achievements of the Chaco civilization—many of which are in grave danger today. This new one-hour documentary reveals the astounding reach of the Chacoans across a region of the America...

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What defines a great American? For artist/activist Robert Shetterly, it's a citizen who courageously confronts issues of social, environmental and economic fairness. Shetterly has painted 270 portraits of such Americans, past and present, with a quote inscribed into the dar...

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LIVING THE GOOD LIFE is a much-loved film about a remarkable couple.

During the Great Depression, Helen and Scott Nearing quit city life and moved to Vermont. He was a brilliant economist; she, a concert violinist. Together, they made their Forest Farm homestead synonymous...

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Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler enrolled in a rigorous night course in the humanities at a community center in their Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.

Kafi, 44, sharp, witty and restless, dropped out of school at 15. She had her first baby a year later and two more soon afte...

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Famous political prisoner Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has become an emblem of an international struggle over freedom of the press, government corruption, and unpunished war crimes from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, with Julian facing a 175 year priso...

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CITIZEN GEORGE presents the life and work of Philadelphia-based Quaker activist George Lakey, a non-violent revolutionary who has worked his entire life for justice and peace, guided by his ideal of societal transformation. Since the age of 19, George has been conscious of ...

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When does practice become protest? Or protest, poetry?

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ec...

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Scientists have come to call the first 6-8 months of the COVID pandemic “The Anthropause.” During this time, industrial fossil fuel pollution plummeted and for the very first time in history, world-wide emissions were reduced enough to halt climate change. In THE EDGE OF NA...

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Seeking an alternative to America’s consumer culture, hundreds of back-to-the-land families coalesced around Poet Laureate Gary Snyder and settled on California's San Juan Ridge in the late 1960s. Repeatedly threatened by corporate Goliaths intent on clear-cutting the Sierr...

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WHERE I BECAME weaves together the stories of 14 South African women who, though hailing from diverse backgrounds, all grew up under the oppressive system of Apartheid. When offered the opportunity to leave South Africa and study at Smith College in Northampton, MA, under a...

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“America the Beautiful” may be America’s most beloved song. It has been sung at inaugurations, demonstrations and sporting events, in a variety of musical styles. There have been numerous proposals to make it the national anthem, most notably by music legend Ray Charles. Th...

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Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker John de Graaf, STEWART UDALL: The Politics of Beauty examines the trajectory of Udall’s life from his childhood through his Mormon miss...

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FAR OUT: Life On & After the Commune tells the story of two rural New England communal farms, tracing fifty years in the lives of a group of New England writers, activists and artists. It conveys not only how these “hippies” transformed Vermont and Western Massachusetts, bu...

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The original meaning of the word "economy" is "household management". The economy of today, however, is not householding but rather consuming our finite natural resources at an alarming pace. OUTGROW THE SYSTEM explores how we can return to the essence of the term and desig...

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In the past 40 years, multinational corporations have shaken up the global economy. They have become immensely wealthy, earning over $3 trillion in profits each year. Yet, they pay hardly any taxes. TAX WARS candidly illustrates how multinationals move and manipulate profi...

AGUA ES VIDA narra la historia de tres personas extraordinarias: Berta Cáceres, líder del pueblo lenca en Honduras; Francisco Pineda, agricultor de subsistencia en El Salvador; y Alberto Curamil, líder indígena mapuche en Chile, quienes se negaron a permitir que la industria, con apoyo gubernamen...

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THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle is the first film to cover the full arc of Cesar Chávez' life. The film is not a traditional biography. It is social history with Chávez as the central figure, and the stories of many ordinary people who we...

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URANIUM DERBY centers around an experiment gone wrong—the American nuclear experiment. Using archival footage and audio recordings of scientists Dr. Harley Wilhelm, Dr. Frank Spedding, and others, director and first-time filmmaker Brittany Prater reveals the historical role...

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THE GOOD VIRUS is a character-driven feature documentary that explores the global efforts of leading scientists combatting one of the most pressing health challenges of our time – the urgent issue of antimicrobial-resistant infections. AMR is already killing millions each y...

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THE OIL MACHINE explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors deman...

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DANCE ME TO THE END OF TIME is a deeply personal film about love in the face of death. It documents the final years in the life of the pioneering theater director Nancy Diuguid as she battles breast cancer. Nancy, who grew up on a Kentucky tobacco farm that was regularly sp...

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WATER FOR LIFE tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let governme...

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Best known for his captivating realist paintings, artist Alan Magee also creates works that delve into the darkest aspects of human nature. His arresting images which comment on corporate greed, on cruelty and gun violence, and on civilian and military victims of war seem a...

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The concept of a "gene" — which came about during the Gilded Age — conveniently supported the notion that biology was destiny and that creating policies to directly address social issues was a waste of time. Those problems were said to be inherent in individuals of certain ...

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Thirty years after historic logging protests on Vancouver Island, the battle to protect old growth forests is still raging. WAR FOR THE WOODS follows a new generation’s campaign against logging that once again has captured the attention of Canadians, including Stephanie Kwe...

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A filmmaker who late in life acquired an organic apple farm, Alexandra Lexton found herself searching for “stories of others who’d reconnected with nature in different ways, then brought their experiences in some meaningful way into the world.”

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Every year, more than 30 million people flee their villages, regions or countries because of climate change. By 2050, it’s estimated there will be between 200 million and 1 billion climate refugees. As extreme weather continues to threaten the lives of hundreds of millions o...