For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Through an analysis of ritual, resource management practices (planting schedules, irrigation vs. conservation, etc) and social organization, anthropologist Steve Lansing and ecologist James Kremer discover the intricacy and sustainability of this ancient water management agricultural system.

A beautifully shot exploration of how Puerto Rican coffee farmers struggle to pass on their family t...

In California’s Central Valley, tucked between the county jail and the shooting range, 100 Mexican-A...

In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their...

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between...

This feature-length educational film teaches you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at virt...

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited work...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increas...

Jump onto the information superhighway with the Standard Deviants! Learn how to log on, surf the web...

Milk is Big Business. Behind the innocent appearances of the white stuff lies a multi-billion euro i...

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of...

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with thi...

Anaïs is 24 and nothing can stop her. Neither the bureaucratic rules of administration, nor the miso...