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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrays the transformative vision and extraordinary efforts of Wenzday Jane, a young woman whose mechanical skills and innovative actions are reshaping her community. Wenzday Jane goes to the heart of the sustainability issue by offering practical economic solutions, and suggests that things don't have to be the way they are. As a young child growing up in public housing, Wenzday's bicycle meant personal responsibility and self-direction....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Goode Family is an animated comedy series which originally aired on ABC primetime in 2009. Created by Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill), the story revolves around a family obsessed with doing the 'right' thing environmentally, politically and socially. This pokes hysterical fun at the stereotypes associated with being either of a 'liberal' or a 'conservative' mindset.
5) Night moves
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Publisher
Canyon Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This documentary, part biography, part tribute, is a look back at Edward Abbey's life as remembered by 16 of his closest friends and family members. Rare film clips and interviews with Abbey, combined with over 120 rare and largely unpublished photographs, offer an insightful look into the personal life and philosophy of this iconoclastic writer.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Director Robert Stone ("Oswald's Ghost," "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst") traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Charles is a womanizing ringleader of a student environmental group, haunted by an overwhelming sense of nihilism that finally envelops him. He drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realizes the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option.
10) Blood glacier
Publisher
IFC in Theaters, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At a climate observation station high in the German Alps, a group of technicians preparing for a visit from the Environment Minister discover a mysterious red liquid pouring from a nearby glacier. A result of the ice's melting due to climate change, the now-spreading 'glacier blood' soon comes into contact with local wildlife, causing changes in the fauna that are at first curious but soon become deathly horrifying. Now the isolated team must use...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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