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.

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.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

Capturing CO2 to recycle it, brightening clouds to better intercept sunlight, massive reforestation:...

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important a...

Legendary performer Sherry Britton presents song, dance (choreographed by Wakefield Poole) and comed...

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Ind...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...

Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the history of v...
A document on the importance of forests to the national economy. It represents forests not only as a...

Focused on the life of the band and their collaborators over the 3 vital years in which they develop...

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Cale...

Capturing Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal in...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as ...

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

Martin Greenfield learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz and went on to ma...