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.
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

The remarkable true story of three animal species rescued from the brink of extinction: California’s...

In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily brea...

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques t...

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...

Examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues ...
Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are co...

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its ...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

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

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourho...

A filmed burlesque show, staged at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA.