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A riveting film focusing on the environmental fallout of the BP oil spill, The Big Fix exposes the vast network of corruption that led to the Gulf Coast citizens being lied to, mistreated, and tossed aside by the government agencies responsible for their safety and well-being—all for the benefit of corporate profits. more »
Freedom explores the use of ethanol and other green solutions to America’s oil fix. Ethanol, the most accessible alternative biofuel, is a lightning rod of controversy. An anti-ethanol coalition made up of both big oil and hard line environmentalists stokes the fire of that controversy. more »
Exciting news! For all of 2012, most DVD titles purchased from Filmakers Library will include one free year of streaming access (from date of purchase) to the film for your entire institution.
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This award-winning film is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. more »
Alexander Street Press is excited to announce that as of today, EVERY title in our Academic Video Store --hundreds of titles from Filmakers Library as well as titles from other distributors -- is now available for 3 year streaming access at HALF PRICE.
To take advantage of this amazing offer or to browse the 1500+ titles we have in stock (each online stream is cross-searchable with other Alexander Street video products, and over a hundred new titles being added every month!) go to www.academicvideostore.com. more »
The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) being interviewed by a younger emerging writer.
The set of ten DVDs comes boxed in a handsome case and is a notable contribution to theater history. more »
This riveting documentary reveals that inside our mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the Congo. more »
Great News! Now you can search, find, click, and watch our videos on your computer screen, iPad, or smart phone. Filmakers Library is proud to announce the April 2011 launch of Filmakers Library Online.
As an imprint of award-winning electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, we are pleased to make available this new online collection, which gathers together for the first time all of the superb documentary films in the Filmakers catalog on a single cross-searchable streaming platform. Encompassing more than 1,000 films at launch and with new titles being added all the time, this multidisciplinary collection includes documentaries that present points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide. more »
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Filmakers Library has been distributing documentary films for almost 40 years, starting with a landmark, cinema verite documentary called Birth and Death. The collections grew from life cycle films to a constantly widening perspective of issue oriented documentaries. Gathering films from American independents as well as filmmakers from all over the world, we are proud to make available these insightful documentaries. And now, as an imprint of Alexander Street Press, we look forward to making our films available in ways that were not possible before.
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| 9/27/11 | Google Baby wins Emmy in Outstanding Science and Technology Programming category |
| 9/26/11 | Good Fortune wins Emmy Award |
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