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Into The Canyon
Filmmaker/photographer Pete McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko set out on a 750-mile journey on foot through the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Built to Burn
Across the west, wildfires have never been more destructive. Oregon’s record-breaking 2020 wildfire season killed at least 11 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and businesses, and burned over 1 million acres of land. Today’s fires are vivid and deadly evidence of the new wildfire realities that can no longer be ignored.
Pleistocene Park
An eccentric Russian scientists' quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop.
Reflection: A Walk With Water
Reckoning with the reality of a changing climate, filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for - what he discovers has everything to do with water.
Hope on the Hudson
For many years, the Hudson River, like so many waterways across the U.S., was treated like an infinite waste barrel, a receptacle for poisonous chemicals, hazardous waste and trash of all descriptions.
No Más Bebés
Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will.
Cured
Meet the LGBTQ activists who refused to accept psychiatry's mental illness label - and changed history
Attla
The untold story of Alaska native dogsled racing champion George Attla and his legacy
Sisters Rising
Native American survivors of sexual assault fight to restore personal and tribal sovereignty against the backdrop of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization.
Without a Whisper
WITHOUT A WHISPER - KONNON:KWE is the untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Entangled
How climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, North America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance
Celebrating the African roots, history, lineage and future progressions of jazz dance through a social and political lens
John Lewis: Get In The Way
The first major documentary biography of civil rights hero, congressional leader and champion for human rights, whose unwavering fight for justice spanned over fifty years.
We Are The Radical Monarchs
Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice.
Border South
A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.
Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster.
Ama
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, HORROR NOIRE traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre.
Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys
An award-winning documentary about the federal government's ban on Florida's iconic airboats in much of the Everglades.
Power to Heal
Tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans
Symbiotic Earth
Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.
A Dangerous Idea
Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not.
When Banana Ruled
A dramatic tale of cynical adventurers, of visionaries of a modern and crippling capitalism, told like a Western.
EXPOSURE إنكشاف
A Muslim chaplain, a French biologist, a Qatari princess and eight other women pull 120-pound sledges across the fast-disappearing Arctic Sea ice to become the last-ever team to reach The North Pole
Life is not a Competition, but I'm Winning
Germany
A radical utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.
Bottle Conditioned
United States
Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Jerry Franck explores the small Belgian community of lambic beer, where brewers and blenders of different generations wrestle with tradition and the increased demand for their rare beers.
Rejeito
After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state counselor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities
Making It
MAKING IT is a short documentary that follows four female athletes from different sports who share their experiences in pursuit of success
Baseball Behind Barbed Wire
Stripped of their constitutional rights, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into desolate camps, surrounded by guard towers and barbed wire. Ironically it was the All-American pastime of baseball that saved their sanity.
Addicted to Life
The dramatic life of Paralympic gold-medalist Marieke Vervoort, and her courageous stand for end-of-life choices: the right to die gave her the will to live.
TerraForma
Germany
A remote desert island is transformed into a tropical paradise. Is this a glimpse of the future? Or an ecological disaster in the making?
Belly of the Beast
Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, this Emmy-winning documentary exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations, modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.
Shaker Swamp
United States
Filmmaker Ted Timreck explores the Medicinal Wetland at the base of Mount Lebanon in New York state, a remarkably preserved ecosystem where at least 74 medicinal plants known to the Indians, Shakers and Tildens have been identified and still survive.
Coral Gardeners
Follow a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income.
Full Circle
An unblinking examination of the challenges of life after spinal cord injury... and a celebration of the opportunity for growth that such tragedy can present.
3100: Run and Become
United States
An uplifting, intimate portrait of endurance runners who push themselves to the edge of physical and mental collapse, as they endeavor to challenge the boundaries of impossibility. It’s “Chariots of Fire” meets “Samsara.”
Thank You for the Rain
Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, uses his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change.
Surf Nation
As China trains its first generation of Olympic surfers, two promising young athletes - Alex and Lolo - navigate adolescence, freedome and their love of the sport
Runner
United States
RUNNER depicts Guor Mading Maker's difficult and triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete.
Windshipped
What started as one man's quixotic dream has turned to reality. For the past three years, the 65-foot Schooner Apollonia has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River by sail sans fossils fuels - a throwback to a day when there were 1200 such boats on the river each day. It turns out buyers prefer the non-polluting, anti-Amazon way of making deliveries.
A Crack in the Mountain
Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby.
The Five Demands
United States
A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever.
Between Fire and Water
Entre fuego y agua
Documentary
Colombia
Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a journey to find his true identity and understand his two races.
The Oil Machine
Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. Is this the end of oil?
Day Zero - Episode 2: Alaska - Glacier and Icy World
French adventurer Vincent Colliard and Norway's well known explorer Borge Ousland bring awareness to the climate crisis.
Day Zero - Episode 1: French Polynesia - Marine Life
Explores exceptionally beautiful landscapes as well as rare intact marine life.
Hidden Letters
Two Chinese millennial women struggling with patriarchal culture work to save an ancient secret language created by women banned from reading or writing.
Dead Sea Guardians
Three historic enemies join forces on a heroic journey to save the Dead Sea from disappearing.
The Life and Times of Sara Baartman
The strange and sad case of Sara Baartman, kidnapped from South Africa in 1810, 'exhibited' around Great Britain, and then treated as a scientific curiosity.
Salvador Allende
Patricio Guzmán tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.
Green Fire
Explores the life and legacy of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac) and his land ethic philosophy.
Come Hell or High Water
When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community his ancestors settled.
School's Out
A year in the life of a forest kindergarten in Switzerland where being outdoors and unstructured play are the main components.
Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
In the Altai Republic of Russia and in Northern California, indigenous shamans resist massive government projects that threaten nature and culture.
Gringo Trails
A global survey of the impacts on cultures, economies, and the environment of the most powerful globalizing force of our time: tourism.
Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss
From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.
To Tell the Truth: The Strategy of Truth
Examines documentary filmmaking during World War II and how it was used as propaganda.
The Human Scale
Acclaimed architect Jan Gehl and his team are on a humanistic mission to reclaim public space in mega cities for pedestrians (and cyclists) rather than cars.
Shift Change
Investigates employee-owned businesses that provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces even in today's economic crisis.
Cocaine Unwrapped
Documents the devastating effects of the war on drugs and suggests realistic alternatives.
The Return of the Cuyahoga
The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
What If Marx Was Right?
Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works - a critique that is relevant and as penetrating as ever? (Episode 4 of the Capitalism series)
The Forgotten Space
A panoramic and essayistic portrait of the new global economy and a compelling argument about why it must change.
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Unveiling the ancient astronomy of southwestern Pueblo Indians.
Chavez Ravine
Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.
The Price of Aid
An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
Water First
An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
In the Light of Reverence
Tells the story of three indigenous communities and the land they struggle to protect
Human Terrain
Examines and questions the US military's new counterinsurgency initiative, 'Human Terrain Systems', under which social scientists are embedded with combat troops.
An Ecology of Mind
A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.
The Dhamma Brothers
An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.
Biophilic Design
A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.
Anthropocene
Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, with all of its political, social and behavioral implications.
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
A portrait of one of the most important living thinkers in the fields of feminism, science and technology.
Triple Divide [REDACTED]
Investigates the impact of fracking and exposes the cover-up of related drinking-water contamination in the triple watershed of the Eastern US.
Celling Your Soul
An examination of our love/hate relationships with our digital devices from the first digitally socialized generation, and what we can do about it.
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock
Documents the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'
Paths of the Soul
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yang blurs the border between documentary and fiction to follow a group of Tibetan villagers who leave their families and homes in the small village of Nyima to make a Buddhist 'bowing pilgrimage' - laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps - along the 1,200 mile road to Lhasa, the holy capital of Tibet.
After the Spill
The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.
A Bold Peace
Almost 70 years ago Costa Rica abolished its army and committed itself to fostering a peaceful society. It has been reaping the benefits ever since.
Death By Design
Investigates the underbelly of the international electronics industry and reveals how even the tiniest devices have deadly environmental and health costs.
Welcome to Refugeestan
The UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than sixteen million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as the Netherlands.
East of Salinas
Jose is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.
Trees in Trouble
The first film to document how a city responds to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.
Chicago Boys
After the coup in 1973, Chile was turned into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiment.
Tar Creek
Tells the incredible story of the Tar Creek Superfund site in NE Oklahoma and the massive and deadly remains left by the lead and zinc mines there.
The Apology
Former 'Comfort Women' who were forced to serve Japanese troops during World War II tell their harrowing stories.
Nasser's Republic, The Making of Modern Egypt
Fascinating and comprehensive documentary on the Egyptian president who led the country from 1952 until his death in 1970.
Nostalgia for the Light
Director Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile's Atacama Desert where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.
The Trouble with Bread
A gluten intolerant filmmaker's quest for the perfect loaf leads to unexpected discoveries about modern bread.
The True Cost
Groundbreaking investigation of fast fashion reveals that while the price of clothing has been decreasing for decades the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.
Banking Nature
By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?
They Are We
Anthropologist's film reunites a family 200 years after they were torn apart by the transatlantic slave trade.
Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor
An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labor and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods, drought and earthquakes?
Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom?
The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together, they would restructure society in the image of the market. (Episode 3 of the Capitalism series)
The Wealth of Nations: A New Gospel?
Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system. (Episode 2 of the Capitalism series)
Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market
Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)