Directed by Heather White, Lynn Zhang • Documentary • 2019 • 89 minutes

Yi Yeting is struggling with occupational leukemia and trying to obtain compensation from his employer. Wanting to help others, he begins working for a non-profit that assists workers with occupational illness and injuries.
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Directed by Melissa Young, Mark Dworkin • Documentary • 2017 • 23 minutes

On South Whidbey Island in the state of Washington, a school farm involves children from kindergarten through high school in every phase of raising organic vegetables as part of their school experience. Supported by local ...

Directed by Derek Hallquist • Documentary • 2017 • 92 minutes

Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but for most the problem is easy to ignore. As people we often find it difficult to face change. We'd rather be in denial. David Hallquist, CEO of a Verm...

Directed by Peter Bull • Documentary • 2011 • 90 minutes

In the digital age, half of our electricity still comes from coal. DIRTY BUSINESS reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to a renewable energy future.

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Directed by Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young • Documentary • 2017 • 86 minutes

In a world torn by conflict — in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned — an energy of determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure...

Directed by Josh Fox, Steve Liptay • Documentary • With Naomi Klein, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Josh Fox, Terry Tempest Williams, Winona LaDuke, Desmond Tutu, Ira Glass • 2016 • 77 minutes

As world governments struggle to meet the aspirational limit of 1.5C of global warmi...

Directed by David I. Munro • Documentary • 2006 • 52 minutes

In 1978, three years after the fall of Saigon, John Pilger went back to Vietnam to find out what had happened under the new regime.

He talks with a young tour guide at a war crimes museum, who had been imprisoned in the infamous US ti...

Directed by Mark Dworkin, Melissa Young • Documentary • 2019 • 41 minutes

DON'T GIVE UP YOUR VOICE! is at first glance about Argentina, but it is also about the USA. Argentina elected its Trump, Mauricio Macri, a year before we elected ours. The two are quite similar in the tone of their campaig...

Directed by Franny Armstrong • Documentary • 2003 • 75 minutes

Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear un...

Directed by Molly Kreuzman • Documentary • 2018 • 74 minutes

EARTH SEASONED...#GapYear is the inspiring story of five young urban women who spend a gap year between high school and college living semi-primitively in a remote mountainside wilderness in Oregon. Told mainly through the story of Tor...

Directed by Laura Pacheco, Jackie Mow • Documentary • 2016 • 53 minutes

EAST OF SALINAS begins with 3rd grader Jose telling us what he wants to be when he grows up. His parents work from sun up to sun down in the heart of California's 'Steinbeck Country,' the Salinas Valley. With little support ...

Directed by Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega • Documentary • 2016 • 55 minutes

EL POETA tells the story of renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who ignited mass protests and an ongoing movement for peace after the brutal murder of his 24-year-old son Juan Francisco—collateral damage in a ...

Directed by Drury Gunn Carr, Doug Hawes-Davis • Documentary • 2010 • 78 minutes

FACING THE STORM is the epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the iconic symbol of wild America. It explores the visionary quest to protect and restore bison and details the inextricable relationship of t...

Directed by Arjun Pandey • Documentary • 2013 • 29 minutes

Everyday, as India awakes, 1.2 billion people need to be fed. By 2050 it could be 1.7 billion. Half a billion small scale farmers supply most of India's food. Traditionally, Indians have eaten the healthy cuisine of India's 29 states, bu...

Directed by Christopher McLeod • Documentary • 2014 • 57 minutes

From Ethiopia to Peru, indigenous customs protect biodiversity on sacred lands under pressure from religious conflicts and climate change. In the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia, scientists confirm the benefits of traditional stewardshi...

Directed by Christine Kinyanjui • Documentary • 2013 • 29 minutes

While Africa is short of food, the world is running short of fuel. Until now the fuels that power prosperity have been mostly coal, oil and gas. But these fossil fuels can pollute, and are running short, whereas new technology mea...

Directed by Gerald Peary • Documentary • 2009 • 80 minutes

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing. Directed by Boston Phoenix critic, Gerald Peary, For the Love of Movies offers an insider's vie...

Directed by Sharon Shattuck • Documentary • 2017 • 76 minutes

With her own wedding just around the corner, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to examine the mystery at the heart of her upbringing: How her transgender father Trisha and her straight-identified mother Marcia stayed together aga...

Directed by Kate Way, Julie Akeret • Documentary • 2018 • 27 minutes

G IS FOR GUN explores the highly controversial trend of armed faculty and staff in K-12 schools. Only five years ago this practice was practically unheard of, but since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, it has spread to as many ...

Directed by David Abel • Documentary • 2018 • 87 minutes

GLADESMEN: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys is an award-winning documentary about the federal government's ban on Florida's iconic airboats in much of the Everglades. The measure is part of the world's largest and most expensive effort to ...

Directed by Mark Dworkin, Melissa Young • Documentary • 2008 • 73 minutes

Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre,...

Directed by Ann Dunsky, Steven Dunsky, David Steinke • Documentary • 2015 • 73 minutes

Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the 20th century because his ideas are so relevant to the environmental issues of our time. He is the father of the national wilderness system, ...

Directed by Renard Cohen • Documentary • 2014 • 70 minutes

GROUNDSWELL RISING gives voice to ordinary folks engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas. We meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction ...

Directed by Courtney Quirin • Documentary • 2019 • 76 minutes

Part hermit, part biologist, Guardians live on boats, full-time, in one of the last pristine frontiers of the world to monitor salmon, the backbone of the ecosystem, economy, and culture along British Columbia's coast. But, in an age ...