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Selected Films
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5 Broken Cameras
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards®, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism and a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching...Watch Movie
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Who is Dayani Cristal?
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight...Watch Movie
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Up the Yangtze
In China, it is simply known as "the River." But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it) is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous,...Watch Movie
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Living in Emergency
Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Pakistan. Just a few of the world’s humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of...Watch Movie
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The Third Wave
Immediately following the 2004 tsunami distaster, Alison and Oscar raced to Sri Lanka with little money or experience and planned to volunteer for two weeks. Along the way, they met up with two other volunteers, Donny and Bruce. Together they found themselves running a refugee camp for over a...Watch Movie
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The Law in These Parts
What is legal and what is just? Through candid, first-ever, interviews with Israeli judges, prosecutors and legal advisors, THE LAW IN THESE PARTS, winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is a gripping and revelatory investigation into the...Watch Movie
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Bananas!*
BANANAS!* is a suspenseful court room drama that examines the intricacies and injustices of the global politics of food. Focusing on a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan banana plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation, BANANAS!* uncovers the alleged...Watch Movie
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Payback
Margaret Atwood's visionary non-fiction work "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms: societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal and, of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal...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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Destination: Rossport, Ireland
In 2005, five men from Rossport, Ireland, were sent to jail for ninety-four days because they would not allow Shell Oil to put a gas pipeline through their land. Filmmaker Jim Kerns goes to this remote town in the northwest of Ireland to examine the conflict and the...Watch Movie
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Split Estate
Emmy-award winning documentary SPLIT ESTATE investigates the oil and natural gas drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West and the Northeast (an area representing thirty-two states in all). Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land and that an energy company plans...Watch Movie
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Waste Land
Nominated for a 2011 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature and filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of...Watch Movie
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Dive!
Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food (263 million pounds a day). Inspired by a curiosity about society's careless habit of sending good, edible food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they...Watch Movie
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Elemental
ELEMENTAL delivers a powerful and unusually intimate portrait of modern environmental activism through the story of three eco-warriors united by their deep connection with nature and commitment to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time. The film follows Eriel...Watch Movie
