This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

A documentary film exploring humanity's relationship with technology and with the natural world. Sho...

Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the history of v...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate ...

Their destiny was well mapped out: brilliant studies, the promise of a good job and a big salary. Ho...

Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her stru...

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show b...

The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of ...

Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers...

This documentary explores an unknown civilization of the Brazilian Amazon, who risk their lives to p...

How is secularism depicted in films? The term "Aa'La'Ma'Ni" means worldly in Arabic. It's significa...

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in ph...

Revealing St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and t...

A portrait of environmental folk hero & gay icon Bob Brown, who took green politics to the center of...

Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists battle over the yearly...

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...