Storms Over China
Global warming, combined with Chinese agricultural practices, few rainstorms, and violent winds have produced increasingly intense sandstorms in northwest China, leading to desertification. (more)

Two Square Miles
When a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to change the character and possibly contribute environmental waste to the small city of Hudson, N.Y., its citizens are galvanized into action. (more)

Amazonia: The Road to the End of the Forest
Informative and absorbing, this film illuminates the basis of deforestation and the associated land use problem in the Brazilian Amazon. It includes one of the last interviews with Chico Mendes who was murderd for his outspoken opposition to land clearance (more)

American Thirst, Canadian Water.
The political issues behind the control of water in North America. (more)

The Bells of Chernobyl
This fast paced and chilling story of the Chernobyl disaster, pieced together from eyewitness accounts and historic film footage, shows a cover- up of epic proportions. This was the biggest disaster of the industrial age. (more)

Black Triangle
The "Black Triangle" where Poland, The Czech Republic, and Germany meet has pollution problems of major proportions (more)

Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on Earth
Nuclear disasters in Chelabynsk were kept secret from the outside world although the local population was sickened from radiation and there is still contamination today . (more)

Chemical Kids.
The conveniences of modern life - cell phones, computers and perfect-looking food - are taking a toll on the health of our children.(more)

Children of Chernobyl
Through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts the true depth of the tragedy at Chernobyl is revealed. (more)

Death on the Silk Road
An undercover report from China reveals the suffering of people who have been exposed to radioactivity from nuclear testing. (more)

The Dragon That Slew St. George (Utah): Downwind from U.S. Testing
In the 1950's, the patriotic Mormon community of St. George, Utah took the full impact of the downwind radioactive dust from atomic tests. Government scientists deliberately lied to the local population, many of whom developed cancer and died. (more)

The Energy Alternative series: A Global Perspective
This brilliantly conceived series of three parts investigates innovative solutions to prevent worldwide ecological disaster.
Part I: Changing the Way the World Works concentrates on the "end-use philosophy."
Part II: The Rich Get Richer focuses on tough, innovative laws and fresh initiatives world-wide which are helping to contain energy consumption and pollution.
Part III: Power to the People focuses on the developing world where the energy debate is carried out against a background of grinding povery, limited resources and rapidly growing population. (more)

The Energy Conspiracy
This is an exploration of influential organizations, worldwide, who lobby for the coal, oil and nuclear power industries against supporters of sustainable (renewable) energy. (more)

Environment At Issue
This documentary is a hard-hitting look at the heated debate over environmental action now occurring this country. It probes environmental risk, scientific uncertainty, the costs of environmental action and inaction, and the role of law in protecting our environment. (more)

The Family of Chimps
This film documents the studies of Dr. Frans de Waal, the internationally known ethologist who based his spectacular book "Chimpanzee Politics" on his unique study at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland. (more)

Flip Flotsam
This unique documentary traces the fantastic journey of Africa¹s most popular shoes: the flip-flop. Beginning life in the factories of Mombasa, they are a staple of dress all over Africa. Cobblers specialize in rejuvenating them, but when at last they are beyond repair, their colorful remains are recycled into fanciful toys and mobiles and sold in boutiques back in Mombasa. (more)

The Green Quiz, hosted by David Suzuki
This special quiz from The Nature of Things science series makes it clear that each of us can play a part to improve the health of our planet. (more)

Halting the Fires
Directed by a Brazilian filmmaker, the film gives a socio/political framework to the devastation of the Amazon.(more)

Human Waste: Turning Waste into a Resource
An urgent environmental problem of our times is the disposal of human waste. The relationship between drinking water and waste effluents, disease and contaminants, is explained clearly in this challenging program.(more)

The Hydrogen Revolution: Beyond Oil...
This important film illuminates the issues surrounding the use of hydrogen instead of oil for energy. Experts caution that the world's oil reserves will be depleted in forty years. Jeremy Rifkin believes that hydrogen with renewable energy sources could free us from oil dependency and pollution. (more)

Igor--The Boy Who Dared to Dream
Born in Chernobyl with severe handicaps, this plucky 10-year-old is being rehabilitated in Great Britain. (more)

I Talk to Animals: A Portrait of Samantha Khury
Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She seems to communicate with race horses, goats, dogs and cats whose owners want to discover what is troubling their animals. (more)

Journey of a Rose
The most beautiful and prized roses find perfect growing conditions in Ecuador, where huge greenhouses replace small farms and are the only employment available. However, to grow these flowers requires heavy applications of pesticides and fumigants; many plantations do not provide protective gear for their workers (more)

Lavender Lake
South Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world. It is also one of the world’s dirtiest. With humor, the film shows how the community is trying to clean up the canal. (more)

Living with Chimpanzees: Portrait of a Family
Here is the story of an unusual nuclear family, Roberta and Phil and the two chimpanzees they have adopted. It shows the joys and challenges of life with our closest primate relatives. (more)

The Main Stream
Humorist Roy Blount, Jr takes an offbeat journey down the Mississippi River, the literal and figurative Main Stream of America. Blount's unpredictable odyssey celebrates the full range of American diversity and eccentricity -- from a wedding ceremony at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to a rodeo at America's toughest prison in Angola, Louisiana. (more)

Radioactive Reservations
This film is an eloquent statement from the Native Americans themselves on the vulnerability of their very existence. Tribal leader Ron Eagleye Johnny shows how the Indian tribes could become the repository for radioactive waste, if they accept the lure of quick money. (more)

Ships of Shame
An expose of the environmental hazards accompanying salvage operation in India's shipyards. (more)

Steering into the Future: New Models of Transportation
Steering into the Future offers some innovative solutions to the environmental problems caused by automobile emissions and endless traffic jams. (more)

The Toxin That Won't Die
This film exposes the power of the pesticide industry, which continues to spray DDT in Indian villages although it has been proven toxic and no long effective against mosquitors. The deadly toxins poison not only the native population but are borne by air currents across the globe. (more)

Trash Trade
Japanese waste is turning into gold in the hands of Chinese dealers who extract valuable metal and plastic from mountains of scrap. But not all Japanese trash is welcome. (more)

The Venetian Dilemma
With stunning imagery, The Venetian Dilemma portrays the fragile urban ecology of Venice besieged by 14 million tourists who far outnumber the local residents. By tracking four Venetians who are trying to make a life in this unique historic place, the themes of urban gentrification and tourist impact are raised--a problem not only for Venice but for many other urban areas. (more)

Vieques
Once a tropical paradise, the island of Vieques off the coast of Puerto Rico was expropriated by the U.S.Navy in the 1940¹s. Many of Its pristine beaches became launching sites to test explosive weaponry. Inhabitants were moved, their homes razed, to make room for the naval base (more)

The WAPRA Report
This is an amusing parody of alarmist documentaries which "proves" people are getting "health benefits" from the noxious emissions from industrial pollutants. A hit at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. (more)

Wheel of Hormones: Gambling with the Future of Mankind
The new chemicals and additives used in making plastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food production are changing the natural hormone balance in animals and humans. For example, more boys are born with genital deformities while many animals are turning out hermaphrodite. (more)