Bullfrog Films
Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of videos and films about the environment in the United States. Founded in 1973, it has been honored with a retrospective screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and with a special award from Medikinale International in Parma, Italy.
We define "environment" broadly and our collection includes programs on ecology, energy, agriculture, indigenous peoples, women's issues, sustainability, community regeneration, economics, social justice, conflict resolution, architecture, and the arts. In recent years, we have released many films about globalization, gender, climate change, and human rights. There are films suitable for all ages in the Bullfrog collection, produced by outstanding, prize-winning filmmakers.
To help people create community advocacy events—using the power of film to raise awareness and funds for their efforts—we created Bullfrog Communities to enhance the public performance of films providing discussion guides and publicity materials with the films.
In partnership with Icarus Films we established Docuseek, an educational streaming service, providing exclusive access to essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to academic institutions.
The company principals are partners Winifred Scherrer and John Hoskyns-Abrahall, and their son Alex Hoskyns-Abrahall. The dedicated Bullfrog team knows the films, the issues, and is eager to help people find the films they need.
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Another World is Possible
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 ...
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Anthropocene
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...
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Argentina: Hope in Hard Times
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,...
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Argentina: Turning Around
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...
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Backfired
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...
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Better This World
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 (...
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Between Joyce and Remembrance
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...
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Between Two Worlds
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 ...
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Big or Small?
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...
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Biophilic Design
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...
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Bluespace
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...
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Brave New West
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 ...
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Bringing It Home
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...
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Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos
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...
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Butterflies and Bulldozers
Directed by Ann Dunsky • Documentary • 2011 • 62 minutes
San Bruno Mountain is San Francisco's lost landscape, a mostly intact remnant of the ecosystem that once covered the city's hills. It is the site of the nation's first Habitat Conservation Plan, a controversial compromise that trades devel...
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Buyer Be Fair
Directed by John de Graaf and Hana Jindrova • Documentary • 2006 • 57 minutes
BUYER BE FAIR looks at two major trade goods—timber and coffee—to find out how Fair Trade certification works and whether it helps the world's poor, and their lands. Can the lessons from certification of timber, by the...
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Capturing the Flag
Directed by Anne de Mare • Documentary • 2018 • 76 minutes
A tight-knit group of friends travel to Cumberland County, North Carolina—the 2016 'posterchild' for voter suppression—intent on proving that the big idea of American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens. What t...
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Chasing Water
Directed by Pete McBride • Documentary • 2012 • 18 minutes
After spending a decade working abroad as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete McBride, decided to focus on something closer to his home and his heart: the Colorado River which cuts through his backyard. Taking nearly three years, McB...
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Cheat Neutral
Directed by Beth Stratford • Documentary • 2008 • 13 minutes
Since the1960s, concentrations of heartbreak, cheating and jealousy in the atmosphere have risen dramatically. CheatNeutral.com offers a unique market-based solution to this essential problem of modern life. For the cost of a condom, t...
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Cheshire, Ohio
Directed by Eve Morgenstern • Documentary • 2017 • 75 minutes
Filmed over a decade, CHESHIRE, OHIO follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio town after exposing residents to harmful emissions. Years later, the film returns ...
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Cocaine Unwrapped
Directed by Rachel Seifert • Documentary • 2013 • 83 minutes
COCAINE UNWRAPPED tells the story of cocaine: coca farmers in Colombia, drug mules in Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories in the Bolivian jungle, dealers on the streets of Mexico, law enforcement officials on the streets of Baltimore...
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Come Hell or High Water
Directed by Leah Mahan • Documentary • 2014 • 56 minutes
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who returns to his native coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfpor...
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Coming to Light
Directed by Anne Makepeace • Documentary • 2000 • 84 minutes
Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was a driven, charismatic, obsessive artist, a pioneer photographer who set out in 1900 to document traditional Indian life. He rose from obscurity to become the most famous photographer of his time, create...
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Company Town
Directed by Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow • Documentary • 2017 • 77 minutes
The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a 'Company Town,' a playground for tech moguls of the 'sharing economy.' Airbnb is the biggest hotel, Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political pow...