Living for 32
On a snowy April day at Virginia Tech in 2007, 32 students and faculty were shot and killed by a lone gunman, 17 others were wounded, and six more were injured jumping out of windows.
Through the personal story of survivor Colin Goddard, Living for...
GROW!
With the average age of farmers in the U.S. currently at 57, it’s critical to encourage more young people to take up the plow. GROW! profiles a new crop of idealistic young farmers who have turned to the fields for a more fulfilling life, driven a...
Designing Healthy Communities: Searching for Shangri-La - Episode 4
Hosted by author and national health expert Dr. Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
In the final episode, Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for model communities large and small that embody the intricate balance of health promoting design and huma...
Designing Healthy Communities: Rebuilding Places of the Heart - Episode 2
Hosted by author and national health expert Dr. Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
Many cities are struggling to resuscitate their dying downtowns and overcome a history of industrial pollution. Episode 2 looks at how families and young people seek to repair...
Schools that Change Communities
Schools that Change Communities profiles a diverse group of public schools that are successfully creating higher achieving students in a different way -- by turning the communities where they live into their classrooms.
The film re-imagines what ed...
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Call of Life is the first feature-length documentary to fully investigate the growing threat posed by the rapid and massive loss of biodiversity on the planet. Featuring leading scientists, social scientists, environmentalists and others, the film e...
Toxic Tears
Toxic Tears looks at the little-known darker side of the “Green Revolution” in India that transformed agriculture, but has negatively impacted thousands of farmers in the country.
The Green Revolution of the mid 20th Century was aimed at greatl...
Room to Breathe - Student Insights (DVD Extras)
Many schools across the country are facing an epidemic of students struggling with poor attention, low academic performance, lack of self-control, bullying and stress.
Room to Breathe explores one promising solution that has been tested in dozens o...
Room to Breathe - Mindfulness Experts (DVD Extras)
Many schools across the country are facing an epidemic of students struggling with poor attention, low academic performance, lack of self-control, bullying and stress.
Room to Breathe explores one promising solution that has been tested in dozens o...
Babushkas of Chernobyl (52 minute version)
In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share this hauntingly beautiful but lethal landscape with an assortment of in...