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THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?"
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. This film tells the story of the Cuban peoples hardship, ingenuity, and triumph over sudden adversity – through cooperation, conservation, and community.
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 friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from.
THEY KILLED SISTER DORTHY is about Sister Dorothy Stang, a 67-year-old Catholic nun from Ohio who'd spent 30 years in the northern Brazilian state of Para, campaigning against ranchers and loggers and for sustainable community projects. Locals called her "the angel of the Amazon".
A COUP MADE IN AMERICA is a documentary made about the CIA's involvement in the downfall of Jacobo Arbenz's government in Guatemala in 1954.
DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE
While hungry Tanzanians are left to fend for themselves on whatever they can get their hands on -- fish heads, scraps -- their waters are emptied of perch that's imported to wealthier nations. Weapons are brought in far more often than food and clothing for the needy, as the country teeters on the brink of devastation.
BLACK GOLD is a sobering documentary exposes the inequities of the coffee business -- a $50 billion industry that continues to shortchange Ethiopia's indigent farmers, inspiring fair-trade crusader Tadesse Meskela to take action.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Laying out the facts of global warming without getting political, Gore makes a sobering impression in this Oscar-winning doc on the audiences who hear his message, urging them to act "boldly, quickly and wisely" ... before it's too late to act at all.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
Known for finding strange beauty in large industrial vistas, Edward Burtynsky searches for great shots on trips to China and Bangladesh. In contrast to his seemingly impersonal aesthetic, the film focuses on individuals, revealing the dreariness and dangers of industrial work.
WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICES takes aim at the corporate giant that's come to symbolize big business in America: Wal-Mart.
HARLAN COUNTY USA
Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town.
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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état.
THE LIFE AQUATIC
We're a pack of strays, don't you get it?
–Steve Zissou
UNAN
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
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