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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth is a feature documentary film which tells the compelling story of an extraordinary womans journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century.
Citizen Koch (2014) (trailer)
"America -- they're coming for you next." Thats thewarning from a Wisconsin state employee after her union rights were destroyed by a Republican governor funded by corporate and billionaire donors whose ultimate goal is to break the unions nationwide -- and cripple the...
Sext Up Kids: How Growing Up in a Hyper-Sexualized Culture Hurts Our Kids
The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded in the lives of North American children. From thongs and padded bras for 9-year-old girls to "sexting," 24-7 internet porn, and unfiltered social media, kids today are bombarded with commercial sexual appeals like never before.
Fractured Land
A modern Indigenous warrior. A Goliath industry. A new way forward. -- Filmmakers Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis document the journey of Caleb Behn to protect the health of his land and people from the ravages of Big Oil and Gas.
Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story  (trailer)
College senior, Tim DeChristopher, Bidder #70, monkey-wrenched the out-going Bush administration's contentious oil and gas auction. He bid $1.8 million to save 22,000 acres of Utah's red rock wilderness with no intention to pay or drill. Now he's paying for it with his future.
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and The National Security State (2013) (trailer)
In a Democracy, citizens are entitled to the freedom of information and the freedom of the press, but what happens when that democratic government turns its back on the truth and begins to punish those who stand up to falsehood, secrecy, and deception? In Robert Greenwald's...
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
In The Mona Lisa Curse, art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. It's a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that it subordinates itself to money-making...
The Pipe
What do people do when the law prevents them from protecting themselves? This is a documentary film on the small Irish village that stood up to Big Oil.
The Counter Economy (2013) (trailer)
THE COUNTER ECONOMY: A WHOLE NEW WORLD IS GROWING UP FROM THE ASHES - A presentation by Katie Patrick. The Counter Economy; a self sustaining ethical economy that respects the boundaries of nature. It is growing on top of the existing polluting economy.
Drying For Freedom
Our planets economic and environmental future hangs on an unlikely thread: the clothesline.
Urban Roots
Urban Roots is the next documentary from Tree Media. Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark MacInnis, the film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit.
Militainment Inc – Militarism and Pop Culture
Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and reality television in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an...
Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)
"Greedy Lying Bastards" investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and...
The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)
THE BLOOM, a ground-breaking new documentary webseries, illuminates the blossoming phenomenon of Transformational Festivals, immersive participatory realities that are having profound life-changing effects on hundreds of thousands of lives.
Ashes And Snow
Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.
CONTINUUM (2013) (trailer)
CONTINUUM is a feature length documentary telling the story of where we came from, who we are, and the possibilities of our future.
The Hungry Tide
The central Pacific nation of Kiribati is expected to be one of the first countries to disappear as a result of climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the homes and lives of 105,000 residents spread over 33 atolls. One of the least develop
In Organic We Trust (2013) (trailer)
We can no longer stomach our food system. It's killing more and more Americans and costing billions in healthcare. 78% of Americans eat organic food, because they think it's healthier. But is organic really better for us or just a marketing scam?
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymesprovides a riveting examination ofmanhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
Resistencia (trailer)
Honduras; A military coup d'etat pushes landless farmers to carry out the most audacious takeover in recent memory.
Watershed
A film about saving the Colorado River & exploring a new water ethic for the New West.
Reconvergence (2012) (trailer)
"An epic rumination on the nature of modern human existence." -Maryland Film Festival At the core of humankind's ethos is an ongoing struggle to come to terms with the impermanence of self. Reconvergence offers an intriguing exploration of mortality, consciousness and...
Everyday Rebellion
Everyday Rebellion is a documentary about the power of the peaceful protests and the new forms of civil disobedience in a time of global upheaval.Featuring Femen, The Yes Men, Srdja Popovic, Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, John Jackson, Monica Hunken, Amin...
Moses (trailer)
20 years on the streets. 5 years in the making. The astonishingly true story of a homeless man struggling between the hope of a second chance & the gravity of the streets. A feature doc sparked by a fiction short.
A Place Called Chiapas
On January 1 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The Government deployed its troops, and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle...
Fixing the Future: Creating Local Jobs and Building Prosperity (2010) (trailer)
Host David Brancaccio tackles one of the toughest challenges facing Americans today: How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity? Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational...
Class Dismissed
This is the new teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary Class Dismissed : A Film About Learning Outside of the Classroom. For more information and to find out how you can help see this film to completion please visit http://www.homeschoolfilm.com The movie should be of...
You've Been Trumped
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness.
Fractured Land (trailer)
Caleb Behn is a young, Indigenous warrior fighting to save his people's land and culture. Deep in the exquisite wilderness of northeastern British Columbia, the ancestral home of Caleb's Dene people, the multi-billion-dollar oil and gas industry emits chemicals linked to...
Confidence Game (trailer)
CONFIDENCE GAME examines the demise of the investment bank known as Bear Stearns; the first Wall Street domino to fall in America's, and the world's most dire economic crisis since the Great Depression. Though the firm collapsed in the space of five short days, CONFIDENCE...
Ingreedients
In the documentary film"Ingreedients", registered nurse and filmmaker, David Burton, discovers an alarming connection between diet and illness while investigatingtrans fats and hydrogenated oilsin America's food supply. Do you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is? What...
Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"Plan B" provides a glimpse into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable resources as well as strategies to avoid the growing threat of climate change. As prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about carbon emissions cast a shadow over the future of fossil...
Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution
Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger. It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.
Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of our Lives
Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions.
Introduction To Permaculture Design by Geoff Lawton
Based on the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course as devised by Bill Mollison, join Geoff Lawton as he takes you into the world of Permaculture Design and introduces you to a new way of looking at the world.
Art Saved My Life (trailer)
This is our pitch video/trailer for Art Saved My Life, a documentary that aims to prove art has the power to transform, heal, progress, enrich, and even save someone's life. Support the film by donating here: http://www.indiegogo.com/Art-Saved-My-Life/
Two Spirits (trailer)
Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender
Gene Sharp: How To Start A Revolution
Half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the...
Stand In My Shoes (trailer)
Stand In My Shoes is a crowd-fuelled social change film about exposing what President Barack Obama coined the "Empathy Deficit" in our world, and the global hunt for social revolutionaries dedicated to creating a countermovement of kindness. That means together we'll fund...
The Electronic Storyteller: TV & the Cultivation of Values
George Gerbner clearly and comprehensively outlines the way in which the universal story-telling function of human societies has been colonized by corporate media.
The Big Fix
An investigation into BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The films scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BPs origins and fingerprintsacross decades of unrest in Iran. By doing smart, covert reporting that shames our news media,by interviewing uncensored...
How I Became An Elephant (2012) (trailer)
One girl's journey to rescue a giant inspires a movement. Juliette is fourteen years old and she is on a mission to save elephants. After single-handedly raising funds Juliette embarks on a life-altering journey to South East Asia to work with her hero, The Elephant Lady.
Maximum Tolerated Dose (trailer)
Maximum Tolerated Dose is the first feature-length documentary by Decipher Films. The film charts the lives of both humans and non-humans who have experienced animal testing first-hand, with hauntingly honest testimony of scientists and lab technicians whose ethics demanded...
Breaking The Taboo
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.
The Animals Film (trailer)
Trailer for the 25th Anniversary Edition DVD of THE ANIMALS FILM. Shockingly relevant to today, the controversial classic film about the exploitation of animals in modern society, narrated by Academy Award Winner Julie Christie.
I AM
I AM isan utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: whats wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better?
At the Edge of the World
At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, develop a combination of bizarre and brilliant tactics with which to stop the whalers...
Hungry For Change
Learn what you should really be eating. Straight facts about the disturbing reality that is our way of eating and living. Food like products that contain zero or next to zero nutritional value. We are a society of overfed and undernourished people who are seemingly oblivious...
Pushing the Elephant
When civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in...
Rebels With A Cause
Deftly charting the sweeping socio- political changes of the Sixties that began with the Civil Rights movement and culminated with angry protests against the U.S. war in Vietnam, REBELS WITH A CAUSE is told through the eyes of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)...
American: The Bill Hicks Story
The true life story of Bill Hicks the outlaw comic who tried to save the world, as told by the 10 people who knew him best. This groundbreaking documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell his story.
The Business of Being Born
Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity...
The Island President
Jon Shenks The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever facedthe literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after...
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet (2012) (trailer)
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of...
Outrage
Outrageis a 2009 American documentary film written and directed byKirby Dick. The film presents a narrative discussing the hypocrisy of individuals purported in the documentary to be closetedpoliticians who promote anti-gay legislation.
The Yes Men Are Revolting (trailer)
The Yes Men Are Revoltingtries to answer:at a time when corporate forces have bought democracy, and with the environment on the brink of collapse, how can we effect real change?
The Revisionaries
Once every decade, the 15 members of the Texas Board of Education meet in Austin to revise the state's textbook standards. Led by Don McLeroy, a Young Earth Creationist, the panel will debate and implement new standards related to science, evolution, social studies, and...
The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men (trailer)
In MEF's powerful new release, The Bro Code, filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms that are saturated with sexism -- movies and music...
Deliver Us From Evil
This film exposes the high-level corruption within the Vatican Church while trying to understand why child abuse within this institution is so rampant and on a global scale. In her Academy Award nominated (2006) documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, director Amy Berg uses...
Occupied Cascadia (trailer)
Occupied Cascadia is a documentary film both journalistic and expressionistic. Exploring the emerging understanding of bioregionalism within the lands and waters of the Northeast Pacific Rim, the filmmakers interweave intimate landscape portraits with human voices both...