Man-made
see all genres ›Once upon a time, environmental disaster was strictly nature's call. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, however, humanity has found plenty of creative ways to compete (from accidental boo-boos to such deliberate innovations as the atom bomb).
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Genres / Documentary / Disaster / Man-made
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Lessons of Darkness
Werner Herzog travelled to Kuwait with producer/cameraman Paul Berriff to shoot the oil fires left blazing by the retreating Iraqi soldiers after the Gulf War. Faced with flames spewing from the earth, a landscape blackened by fire and oil and plumes of dark smoke choking the...Watch Movie
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The Town That Was
In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mining town of over 3,000 people. By the mid-1980s, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked...Watch Movie
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
THE PRUITT-IGOE tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956,...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Crude
Three years in the making, CRUDE tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. Winner of 19 international awards,...Watch Movie
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Songhua
In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, where four million people depend on it as a source of water. SONGHUA is a portrait of the varying people that gather where the river meets the city, and an ethnographic study of the intimate ways...Watch Movie
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Parallel Lines
The filmmaker's journey is chronicled in the fall of 2001 from California back home to New York, where her apartment once overlooked the World Trade Center in PARALLEL LINES. Driving along back roads as she winds her way to Ground Zero, she stops to talk with strangers about September 11th, which...Watch Movie
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Libby, Montana
A small company town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of a widespread toxic contaminant in U.S. history. Now, the U.S. government has determined that nearly one quarter of the residents have some form of asbestos-related lung abnormality. LIBBY, MONTANA is the story of the...Watch Movie
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Rebirth
REBIRTH is a riveting journey into living history, an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come in its wake. The result of a decade-long process by director Jim Whitaker, the inspirational story of REBIRTH follows the nearly...Watch Movie
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Tornado
A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A tornado kills with abandon but has no will. Lynne Sachs’ TORNADO is a poetic piece shot from the perspective of Brooklyn, where much of the paper...Watch Movie
