Directed by Joe Phelps, Rosemary Smith and Roko Belic • Documentary • With Steven Pinker • 2020 • 90 minutes
Trust Me explores why humankind is attracted to stories about violence, how media outlets capitalize on that, and how we gather and share information and misinformation in the digital age. The film identifies confirmation bias and how innate neurological traits interact with web algorithms to distort how we see the world.
Trust Me gives audiences a front row seat to the efforts of individuals, educators, and government regulators all the way up to the United Nations, in promoting journalistic integrity and media literacy around the world.
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No Dinosaurs In Heaven
Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • With Dr. Eugene Scott • 2010 • 53 minutes
No Dinosaurs in Heaven is a film essay that examines the hijacking of science education by religious fundamentalists, threatening the separation of church and state and dangerously undermining scientific literacy.
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The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today
Directed by Jay Rosenstein • Documentary • With Vashti McCollum • 2010 • 57 minutes
"The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of...
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Eating Alaska
Directed by Ellen Frankenstein • Documentary • 2009 • 57 minutes
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the Alaskan Frontier?
Eating Alaska is a film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherma...
