Socially Responsible Films

 THE UNFORESEEN (2007)  In the 1980s, an ambitious real estate developer came to Austin, Tex., with a dream--to transform miles of pristine wilderness into a sprawling... In the 1980s, an am...

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Moneyless in Moab Interweaving philosophical conversations with suelo in his cave and treehouse with colorful footage of his daily activities in town and in nature, MONEYLESS IN MOAB offers an ...

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The Cove (2009) In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. At last, the truth of THE COVE com...

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Collapse (2009) Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking wil...

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180° South (2010) The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Along the way he gets shipwrecked o...

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Burma VJ (2009) Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, after decades of...

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The Garden (2008) The 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of it's kind in the United States. It was started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. rio...

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Addicted to Plastic (2008) ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is a feature-length documentary about solutions to plastic pollution. The point-of-view style documentary encompasses three years of filming in 12...

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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me (1989), Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examin...

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Crude (2009) One of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal dram...

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THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (2009) The film consists of a several pranks on major corporations and governmental agencies that are performed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (in real life Jacqu...

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The Age of Stupid (2009) Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid peers back in time from a climate crisis-wracked 2055 to lament our curr...

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Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk This is a powerful documentary about an extraordinary woman. At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim ...

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Food, Inc. (2008) The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically ch...

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King Corn (2007) King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best...

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Elliot Free State Logging Blocade On July 6th 2009, a group of Earth First! and Rising Tide activists blocked a logging road leading to the Umpcoos Ridge timber sale. The blockade and free stat...

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Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008) With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence am...

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HOME (2009) HOME is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand . The film is entirely composed of aerial shots of various places around the Earth. It shows the diversity of life on the Earth and...

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Black Coffee (2005) Black Coffee is a three-hour documentary series that traces the unique and volatile history of coffee. From its discovery on an ancient Ethiopian hillside to its role as a ...

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Black Gold : A Film About Coffee And Trade (2006) The film focuses on the coffee growers of the Oromia Region of southern and western Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It follows Tadesse Mesk...

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Playing for Change: Peace Through Music (2008) "The act of playing music with people of different cultures, religions, economics and politics is a powerful statement. It shows that we can find ...

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Contents: **** Disc One **** 1.1 THE MEXICANS - Mexico - a country rich in oil resources but heavily influenced by the policies and politics of its near neighbour, the USA. In a country domina...

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Brilliant campaigning journalist John Pilger has made some of the most revealing and fascinating television documentaries ever seen on British screens. This three disc set has collated 12 of th...

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Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008) Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. C...

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The Century of the Self (2002) Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in both politics and business, the tr...

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