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Environment
43 film(s) found
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The political issues behind the control of water in North America. more »
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The film documents the conflict between major banana companies, like Dole and Chiquita, and small growers who champion environmentally safer production methods. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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The "Black Triangle" where Poland, The Czech Republic, and Germany meet has pollution problems of major proportions more »
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This film concentrates on the "end-use philosophy." Instead of asking how much energy the world will demand, it asks how can less energy be used to give consumers the things they want - lighting, central heating, air conditioning, automobiles, etc. more »
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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 »
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The conveniences of modern life - cell phones, computers and perfect-looking food - are taking a toll on the health of our children. more »
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Through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts the true depth of the tragedy at Chernobyl is revealed. more »
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This film exposes the environmental and physical hazards faced by the underpaid coffee pickers in a typical coffee plantation. more »
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An undercover report from China reveals the suffering of people who have been exposed to radioactivity from nuclear testing. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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When an international company causes pollution in an African American neighborhood, who pays? more »
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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 »
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This film from the Nature of Things series shows that the challenge of feeding billions of more people will effect soil erosion, salinization, and chemical pollution. Two-part series. more »
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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 »
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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
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Directed by a Brazilian filmmaker, the film gives a socio/political framework to the devastation of the Amazon. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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An expose of the part played by multinational corporations, Third World debt and trade barriers in fueling poverty and environmental destruction in the poorest countries. more »
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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 »
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Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War they are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. In this film, we meet several who are plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 US chemical companies. Attorneys, activists, scientists, and a military historian take us to a new battlefield. more »
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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 »
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This disturbing documentary looks at findings that point to pollutants as the cause of endocrinal changes in the male reproductive system. more »
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Since the economic reforms of the 1980s, runaway economic growth has turned China into a major creator of pollution. While the Chinese government ineffectually tries to grapple with its growing environmental problems, there is rising discontent among the masses. more »
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This film focuses on the developing world where the energy debate is carried on against a background of grinding poverty, limited resources and rapidly growing population. Among the affordable solutions demonstrated are more efficient stoves and faster growing trees. more »
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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 »
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An expose of the environmental hazards accompanying salvage operation in India's shipyards. more »
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Traditional foods are at risk of disappearing forever, as a speed-obsessed world turns increasingly to fast foods. To counter this trend, there is an international movement known as Slow Food. more »
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In the village of Longbaoshan, northwest of Beijing, inhabitants are trying to prevent their homes from being engulfed by ferocious sandstorms. more »
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This film focuses on tough, innovative laws and fresh initiatives world-wide which are helping to contain energy consumption and pollution. We see a computerized energy-management system in a home and in a high-efficiency office building. more »
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The Arctic sea ice, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing.
This film discusses the dramatic environmental, political, and economic implications. more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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