Directed by Simon Brothers, Luke Mistruzzi, Anton Smolski, Mark Preston • Documentary • 2019 • 70 minutes

The co-operative movement was built by people who took on the responsibility for their collective well-being in the face of government neglect, economic exclusion and cultural discrimination...

Directed by Anna Moot-Levin, Laura Green • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes

Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, THE PROVIDERS follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics that ...

Directed by Nancy Cooperstein Charney • Documentary • 2019 • 88 minutes

WHO'S NEXT? examines how the lives of Muslim-Americans have been affected in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. It focuses on six Muslim families — citizens and long-time legal residents — from diverse co...

Directed by Matthew Eddy, Michael Dreiling • Documentary • 2017 • 89 minutes

In his famous 'Cross of Iron' speech in 1953, President Eisenhower critiqued the military-industrial complex while asking, 'Is there no other way the world may live?' In Costa Rica today, we glimpse another way to live....

Directed by Bo Boudart • Documentary • 2019 • 41 minutes

A CONCERNED CITIZEN documents the work of Dr. Riki Ott, a citizen activist who predicted the Exxon Valdez oil spill hours before it happened and came to the aid of her Alaskan community in their battle to get fair compensation for their lo...

Directed by Nathanael Coste, Marc de la Menardiere • Documentary • 2018 • 87 minutes

A QUEST FOR MEANING tells the story of Marc and Nathanael, two childhood friends who take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and to discover a way to bring about...

Directed by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe • Documentary • 1997 • 56 minutes

AFFLUENZA is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease—caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism—that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment....

Directed by Jon Bowermaster • Documentary • 2016 • 62 minutes

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the worst ecologic disaster in North American hist...

Directed by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson • Documentary • 2014 • 88 minutes

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in May 2009, there are only four American doctors left who openly provide third-trimester abortions. AFTER TILLER paints a complex, compassionate portrait of these phys...

Directed by Nora Bateson • Documentary • 2011 • 60 minutes

AN ECOLOGY OF MIND is a portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, and systems theorist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with footage from Gregory's own films shot ...

Directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young • Documentary • 2002 • 24 minutes

What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change it? In early 2002, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, public officials, representatives ...

Directed by Steve Bradshaw • Documentary • 2016 • 97 minutes

A Working Group of international scientists is deciding whether to declare a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene—a planet shaped more by mankind than nature. Its members tell the story of the Anthropocene and argue whether it's a tra...

Directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young • Documentary • 2005 • 74 minutes

"Que se vayan todos!" Chants echo off the skyscrapers, burst through the plazas, and clamor down the streets of Buenos Aires. "Throw them all out!" shout legions of frustrated Argentine housewives, students and lawyers,...

Directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young • Documentary • 2008 • 37 minutes

In the 90s Argentina embraced globalization, but instead of making everyone rich the economy collapsed. The eyes of the world were on Argentina as a desperate people turned to each other for mutual support in a remarkab...

Directed by Dale Bell • Documentary • 2018 • 61 minutes

BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America tells the inside story of the VW scandal as it unravels beginning at West Virginia University in 2013 where a group of unsuspecting students accidentally discover the defeat device while doing rare on-road...

Directed by Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega • Documentary • 2011 • 89 minutes

How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention?

BETTER THIS WORLD follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (...

Directed by Mark J. Kaplan • Documentary • 2005 • 68 minutes

BETWEEN JOYCE AND REMEMBRANCE is a hard-hitting documentary about truth and reconciliation in South Africa, focusing on the family of the tortured, poisoned and murdered student activist, Siphiwo Mtimkulu.

Producer Mark Kaplan spent s...

Directed by Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman • Documentary • 2011 • 70 minutes

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is a groundbreaking personal exploration of the community and family divisions that are redefining American Jewish identity and politics. The filmmakers' own families are battlegrounds over loyalty to ...

Directed by Alex Gabbay • Documentary • 2013 • 29 minutes

In the USA alone there are approximately 5 million fewer farmers today than there were in the 1930s. Economies of scale suggests that bigger is better when it comes to feeding a hungry planet. But bigger often requires mechanization and c...

Directed by Stephen R. Kellert & Bill Finnegan • Documentary • 2012 • 62 minutes

Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world's most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life. Together, we will encounter buildings that connect peop...

Directed by Ian Cheney • Documentary • 2016 • 73 minutes

Could humans live on Mars? Would we want to? Emmy-nominated filmmaker Ian Cheney provides insight into our currently unsustainable relationship with our home planet by examining the sci-fi speculation of 'terraforming,' or making another p...

Directed by Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr • Documentary • 2008 • 86 minutes

Jim Stiles arrived in Utah in 1975, a follower of the cult of Ed Abbey, a copy of Desert Solitaire in his backpack, and a dream of preserving the natural beauty of the American Southwest via any means. Three decades ...

Directed by Linda Booker & Blaire Johnson • Documentary • 2014 • 52 minutes

Industrial Hemp is making headlines in American media with the 2018 Farm Bill removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, allowing state departments of agriculture to regulate hemp cultivation.

But for decades hem...

Directed by Charles Thompson & Michael Davey • Documentary • 2010 • 58 minutes

Brother Towns is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have settled in Florida.

This f...