30 Frames a Second: A WTO in Seattle
30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle, is a compelling first-person account of the events that unfolded during the week the World Trade Organization came to Seattle in November of 1999. It's told from the perspective of..
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle for a Living Planet
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halt..
A Sea Change
A Sea Change documents how the pH balance of the oceans has changed dramatically since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in acidification. With near unanimity, scientists now agree that the burni..
Addicted to Plastic
From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. But such pr..
Addicted to Plastic (short version)
From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. But such pr..
Ama
Amá tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the US Government during the 1960s and 70s. The women were removed from their families and sent to boarding schools. They we..
An Ecology of Mind
A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with f..
Baboon Tales
Based on 26 years of fieldwork by anthropologist/primatologist Dr. Shirley Strum, Baboon Tales explores the complex world of a troop of Olive Baboons in Kenya. In sharp contrast to early theories of baboon behavior, whic..
Baked Alaska
"The weather really changed", says Eleanor Sam, plucking feathers from a goose. "When we were children we wore thick fur. We don't wear clothes like that any more..." Temperatures in Alaska are rising ten times faster th..
Barbershop Punk
Robb Topolski is an unlikely crusader for free speech -- on the surface; he seems to be a mild-mannered geek with a fondness for a capella music. However, when Topolski tried to upload some rare recordings of barbershop ..