DCEFF 2020 Online

Stream Dozens of our 2020 Festival Selections Online!

Featured Film Deer 139

Three women follow the 85-mile-long migration path of a scruffy, pregnant mule deer doe and learn to see the world differently in the process.

 

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Enjoy DCEFF Programming Online

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our March 2020 Festival screenings in D.C. due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we were able to work with many of our wonderful filmmakers to offer close to 50% of this year’s Festival Selections via this online platform. Since the end of March, we have had to stop offering some of these films, but most remain available today — we’ve even added new titles!

 

NOTE: All of the films below, along with hundreds of other past Festival Selections, can also now be found on our Watch Now: DCEFF Online page.

 

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A Better Life – Blue Habits Baja

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A Better Life – Blue Habits Baja

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Conservation

Remote areas of Baja California’s Peninsula are home to some of the last wild coasts on Earth.

A Fistful of Rubbish

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A Fistful of Rubbish

2019 Global Perspectives, Adventure

A Western environmental documentary, A Fistful of Rubbish is set in the Tabernas Desert in Spain — Europe’s only desert. An area known for being…

A Living River

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A Living River

2019 Freshwater & Oceans

The Hudson River Valley has been called America's Serengeti, for the abundance of wildlife in what many wrongly consider to be a "dead" river.

A Reindeer’s Journey

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A Reindeer’s Journey

2018 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Conservation

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Meet Ailo, a newborn reindeer who embarks on an incredible odyssey with the help of his mother. Narrated by Donald Sutherland and set against the frozen majesty of northern Finland, this an uplifting story for the whole family.

A Taste of Sky

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A Taste of Sky

2019 Food & Agriculture

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Delicately details the journey of two students from Gustu, the groundbreaking cooking school and fine-dining restaurant founded by Noma's Claus Meyer in La Paz, Bolivia

A Voice for the Rivers: The Riverkeepers of Maryland's Eastern Shore

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A Voice for the Rivers: The Riverkeepers of Maryland's Eastern Shore

2019 Freshwater & Oceans

Professional and citizen river keepers monitor and protect the rivers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The film is a tribute to the beauty of our rivers and to the individuals dedicated to protecting and preserving these living treasures.

A Walk Through The Land of a Thousand Hills

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A Walk Through The Land of a Thousand Hills

2019 Wildlife, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

Claver Ntoyinkima, a native park ranger, shares the secrets of Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda as he guides us through the forest.

Anbessa

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Anbessa

2019 Global Perspectives, Development & Built Environment

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A young boy displaced by a massive condominium complex creates his own reality in which, as a lion (anbessa), he can face the forces beyond his control.

Ani Wa Sa (We Are One)

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Ani Wa Sa (We Are One)

2020 Wildlife, Conservation

Two brothers who come from a line of Zande hunters pursue protecting their forest from diametrically opposed avenues.

Artifishal

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Artifishal

2019 Freshwater & Oceans

Focusing on people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them, Artifishal explores wild salmon's slide towards extinction, threats posed by hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.

Bare Existence

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Bare Existence

2019 Climate Change, Wildlife, Conservation

A behind-the-scenes look into the plight of the polar bear, Bare Existence focuses on the biologists on the front lines of protecting these animals as they battle against the effects of climate change threatening their existence.

Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story

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Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story

2019 Climate Change, Adventure

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Writer and activist Mark Baumer walked barefoot for over 100 days to protest climate change.

Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War

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Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

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The complex world of wildlife trafficking is viewed through a feminine lens in this thorough exploration of the emotional toll that poaching and wildlife crime are having on the courageous women fighting on the front lines.

Chasing Ghosts

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Chasing Ghosts

2020 Wildlife, Conservation

Deep in remote Florida swamps, a team of researchers and photographers have made a new discovery that upends what we thought we knew about the ghost orchid, one of the world’s most iconic flowers, and how it reproduces.

The Church Forests of Ethiopia

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The Church Forests of Ethiopia

2020 Global Perspectives, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

Tells the story of the country's church forests -- pockets of lush biodiversity that are protected by hundreds of churches “scattered like emerald pearls across the brown sea of farm fields.”

Collodion: The Process of Preservation

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Collodion: The Process of Preservation

2020 Wildlife, Arts and Environment, Conservation

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The lens of photographer and physician Eric Overton captures a fearless and uncommonly vulnerable self-portrait of American wilderness, our relationship to each other, and the possibility that nature itself may be all we need to find common ground.

Constant Thought

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Constant Thought

2019 Adventure

When the traditional methods of coping with trauma don't work, what options do you have left? Brandon Kuehn, an Iraq War veteran, believes the best way to face a range of trauma is to reach for literal physical summits -- and he isn't alone.

The Cordillera of Dreams

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The Cordillera of Dreams

2019 Global Perspectives, Development & Built Environment

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Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button) investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile.

Cries of Our Ancestors

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Cries of Our Ancestors

2020 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Conservation

In the highlands of Guinea, people and chimpanzees live peacefully side by side. Myths and stories -- and a mutual respect for one another -- have preserved this relationship for generations.

Current Sea

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Current Sea

2020 Freshwater & Oceans

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This environmental thriller follows investigative journalist Matt Blomberg and ocean activist Paul Ferber in their dangerous efforts to create a marine conservation area and combat the relentless tide of illegal fishing.

Dark Waters

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Dark Waters

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Public Health

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An attorney risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals.

Death of a Species

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Death of a Species

2020 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Conservation

Snails in Hawaii are disappearing at a faster rate than any other animal on the planet. Meet the scientists fighting for their survival.

Deer 139

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Deer 139

2019 Wildlife, Adventure

Three women follow the 85-mile-long migration path of a scruffy, pregnant mule deer doe and learn to see the world differently in the process.

Detroit Hives

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Detroit Hives

2019 Sustainable Living, Development & Built Environment, Food & Agriculture

Tim Paule and Nicole Lindsey are a young couple who run an urban bee farm in East Detroit to create opportunities for young Detroit natives to overcome adversity.

Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

2019 Global Perspectives, Food & Agriculture

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Offers a candid look into the world of 92-year-old British chef and cookbook author Diana Kennedy, widely regarded as the world's authority on Mexican cuisine

Dispatches from the Gulf 3: Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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Dispatches from the Gulf 3: Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

2020 Freshwater & Oceans

Has the Gulf of Mexico recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

The Dog Doc

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The Dog Doc

2019 Technology & Science, Animal Welfare

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Attracting four-legged patients from around the world, Dr. Goldstein's practice, Smith Ridge Veterinary Center, provides holistic treatment for animals after other vets have given up hope.

The Dolphins of Barataria Bay

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The Dolphins of Barataria Bay

2020 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Conservation

The salt marshes and mangroves of Louisiana's Barataria Bay are fertile nesting grounds and nurseries for birds and fish. Despite being hit hard by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, these waters teem with hundreds of species of marine animals.

Earth

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Earth

2019 Global Perspectives, Development & Built Environment

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Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans -- with shovels, excavators, or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, in quarries, and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.

Eyes In The Forest

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Eyes In The Forest

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

The Amazon was the first victim of the peace process in Colombia. Since the demobilization of the FARC guerilla group in 2017, deforestation rates have spiked by more than 40 percent as illegal loggers exploit the power vacuum left behind by the rebels.

Fantastic Fungi

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Fantastic Fungi

2019 Technology & Science, Public Health, Food & Agriculture

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This consciousness-shifting film takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, which houses an underground network that can heal and save our planet.

Farmscape Ecology

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Farmscape Ecology

2020 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Food & Agriculture

Farming is ever-evolving. Today, when we think about what’s to come next for farmers, a key question is, “How do we produce food and still maintain a livelihood for farmers, while respecting the needs of other organisms with which we share the land?"

Forgotten But Not Gone: The Pacific Fisher

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Forgotten But Not Gone: The Pacific Fisher

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

Discover a world of drugs, the timber industry, and a controversial decision not to list Pacific fisher under the Endangered Species Act. This story pulls back the veil on the lead-up to that surprise decision and what it means for the future of the Pacific fisher.

The Game Changers

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The Game Changers

2018 Global Perspectives, Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Food & Agriculture

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The world of an Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor is turned upside down when a group of world-renowned athletes and scientists demonstrate that most of what he had been taught about protein was a lie.

Gather

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Gather

2020 Sustainable Living, Indigenous Voices, Food

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Follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to re connect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.

Glen Canyon Rediscovered

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Glen Canyon Rediscovered

2018 Climate Change, Conservation, Adventure

Glen Canyon Rediscovered chronicles a 350-mile, sea-kayak-based journey to the remote and lost wonders of Glen Canyon, the “place no one knew.” As a result…

Golden

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Golden

2018 Wildlife, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

Peering out her tall bedroom windows at the highway below, Caitlin Davis dreamed of life as an ecologist. When she saw mountains for the first time on a backpacking trip after college, her fate was sealed.

The Golden Lion Tamarins of Poco Das Antas

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The Golden Lion Tamarins of Poco Das Antas

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

The golden lion tamarin becomes a beacon of hope for the Atlantic Forest habitat in Brazil, as conservationists continue a more than 30-year effort to save the species by connecting its fragmented habitat with a wildlife bridge.

Pacha Kuti: The Golden Path

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Pacha Kuti: The Golden Path

2020 Sustainable Living, Parks and Protected Areas, Indigenous Voices, Conservation

When Arnold returns to his native community in the Peruvian Amazon after living in the urban world, he remembers the stories told to him by his grandfather and the great importance of maintaining balance with the jungle.

Green Gold?

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Green Gold?

2020 Global Perspectives, Food & Agriculture

As the global demand for the super food avocados has soared, Chile has become the world's third-largest exporter of avocados.

The Heartbeat

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The Heartbeat

2020 Freshwater & Oceans, Sustainable Living

In Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, salmon is culturally and economically significant. The Heartbeat tells the story of how the landscape is connected to salmon and salmon connected to people. Produced by Smithsonian Global.

The Hidden Kingdoms of China

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The Hidden Kingdoms of China

2020 Wildlife, Conservation

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China is the world’s most populated country with more than 1.4 billion people inhabiting its vast and extreme wild lands alongside creatures seen nowhere else in the world. Some of its secrets are still undiscovered…until now.

Homecoming: Journey to Limuw

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Homecoming: Journey to Limuw

2020 Indigenous Voices

Each year the Chumash people take an annual journey back to their historical village site on Limuw, now present day Santa Cruz Island.

Honeyland

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Honeyland

2019 Global Perspectives, Sustainable Living

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The last in a long line of wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the closest city -- a mere four hours' walk away.

In Brazil, Fires and Deforestation Threaten Amazon Species’ Survival

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In Brazil, Fires and Deforestation Threaten Amazon Species’ Survival

2020 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Conservation

South America's Amazon rainforest is home to a remarkable diversity of animal and plant life. But record-breaking forest fires in 2019 and ongoing deforestation is putting many of the Amazon's original inhabitants at risk.

In Dry Water

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In Dry Water

2019 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans, Climate Change

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Adama and Adja have a problem on their hands. Their country, Senegal, is running out of fish. As foreign trawlers and climate change cripple their stocks, the friends face a choice: Stay or follow the same trail as the fish.

Indigenous Communities Under Siege in Rondon’s Land

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Indigenous Communities Under Siege in Rondon’s Land

2020 Global Perspectives, Parks and Protected Areas

In Rondônia, Brazil, theft of wood, land grabbing in protected areas, and threats to Indigenous leaderships are commonplace. The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous territory is under constant…

Inland Sea (Minatomachi)

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Inland Sea (Minatomachi)

2018 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans

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In Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan, Wai-chan, at the age of 86, still fishes alone on a small boat to make his living, dreaming about retirement.

Isla de Plastico (Plastic Island)

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Isla de Plastico (Plastic Island)

2019 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans, Latin American Program

Exposes the reality of garbage, plastic, and pollution in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Jane Goodall: The Hope

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Jane Goodall: The Hope

2020 Wildlife, Conservation, Adventure

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Jane Goodall: The Hope celebrates the vast legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall’s four decades of advocacy work for chimpanzees and depicts the next chapter for generations to come.

Kumik and the Glacier

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Kumik and the Glacier

2020 Global Perspectives, Climate Change

Meme Falchung, the oldest person in Kumik (a hillside community in northwest India), has watched through the years as the glacier above his village melts away.

L'Eau Est La Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp

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L'Eau Est La Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Indigenous Voices

On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight -- to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.

Last Call For The Bayou

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Last Call For The Bayou

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Conservation

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Louisiana's Delta is a veritable bounty of rich estuarine life, supporting a robust commercial fishing industry, fertile oil fields, millions of migrating waterfowl, and at the heart of it all, the mighty Mississippi.

Last Wild Places: American Prairie Reserve

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Last Wild Places: American Prairie Reserve

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

The American Prairie Reserve is assembling land in northern Montana, with the goal of creating a seamless 3.5 million acre grassland habitat. When they reintroduce bison to the landscape, both the ecosystem and local people benefit.

Last Wild Places: Gorongosa

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Last Wild Places: Gorongosa

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

For 15 years, Mozambique was engulfed in a brutal civil war that devastated human and wildlife populations alike. Now, in part by focusing on empowering and educating women, Gorongosa National Park has become a model of successful conservation efforts.

Last Wild Places: Majete

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Last Wild Places: Majete

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

When Tizola Moyo started as a ranger in 1993, Majete Wildlife Reserve was devoid of any wildlife. Now, with the help of the park’s rangers and community collaboration, it's flourishing.

Legacy

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Legacy

2019 Development & Built Environment, History

For almost 150 years, the contributions of Chinese railroad workers to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was forgotten and ignored.

Mahakali

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Mahakali

2018 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans, Adventure

A group of Indian whitewater kayakers complete a first, and likely final, descent of the dam-threatened Mahakali River.

March of the Newts

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March of the Newts

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

Follow one of the forest's funkiest creatures into a gathering of amphibious affection... and learn how you can help protect these sensitive animals from an emerging disease.

Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

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Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

2019 Environmental Advocacy and Justice

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Mossville, Louisiana, is a shadow of its former self -- a community rich in natural resources and history, founded by formerly enslaved people and free people of color -- where neighbors lived in harmony, insulated from the horrors of Jim Crow.

My Friends Were Mountaineers

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My Friends Were Mountaineers

2019 Adventure

A living alpine legend and prolific artist revisits his favorite mountain on his 100th birthday.

Nassawango Legacy

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Nassawango Legacy

2019 Freshwater & Oceans

Pays tribute to Joe and Ilia Fehrer and their beloved Nassawango Creek.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019 Global Perspectives, Arts and Environment, Adventure

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When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin's passion for the nomadic life.

Nostalgia for the Light

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Nostalgia for the Light

2010 Global Perspectives

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Examines two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.

One Word Sawalmem

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One Word Sawalmem

2019 Indigenous Voices

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For Winnemem Wintu young man Michael "Pom" Preston, Sawalmem represents a vital vision for healing the world and for healing from the legacy of the Shasta Dam. Streaming password: waterislife.

Open Water

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Open Water

2019 Climate Change

The perfect storm of a changing climate and the rapid encroachment of the modern age has dramatically impacted the Arctic people -- forcing them to cope with change beyond their immediate control in the present -- not the future.

Our Gorongosa

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Our Gorongosa

2019 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

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Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has become one of Africa’s most celebrated wildlife restoration stories.

Paradise

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Paradise

2019 Parks and Protected Areas

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An unlikely environmentalist, Bryan Wells finds himself standing between Yellowstone National Park and an industrial-scale gold mine. The proposed mine would sit just above his home, and it threatens not only America's most iconic national park but also his community's way of life.

Pariah Dog

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Pariah Dog

2019 Global Perspectives, Animal Welfare

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This lyrical, kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, India, is seen through the prism of four outsiders and the neglected street dogs they love.

The Pearl Button

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The Pearl Button

2015 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans

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Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape.

Perempuan

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Perempuan

2018 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans

All people, regardless of gender, should enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities, and protections. Meet the women who are standing up for their right to…

The Plastic Problem

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The Plastic Problem

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Sustainable Living, Technology & Science

By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. PBS NewsHour takes a closer look at how it’s impacting the world and ways we can break our plastic addiction.

The Pollinators

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The Pollinators

2018 Food & Agriculture

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This cinematic journey around the United States follows migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honeybees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts, and vegetables we all eat.

Preserving the Páramo of Chingaza

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Preserving the Páramo of Chingaza

2019 Parks and Protected Areas

The páramo ecosystem in Colombia’s Chingaza National Park makes life in Bogotá possible.

Protecting Nature for Good

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Protecting Nature for Good

2020 Parks and Protected Areas

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How a massive, big-picture approach to conserve Brazil's Amazon helped define a new way to save nature.

Protecting the Birds of Black River Gorges

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Protecting the Birds of Black River Gorges

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

The Mauritius kestrel and the echo parakeet were two of the rarest birds in the world, but after decades of conservation efforts, they're now making a comeback.

Public Trust

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Public Trust

2020 Wildlife, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

Despite support from voters across the political spectrum, public lands face unprecedented threats from extractive industries and the politicians in their pockets.

Punjab: Land of the Five Drying Rivers

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Punjab: Land of the Five Drying Rivers

2020 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans, Sustainable Living, Food & Agriculture

A matriarch in her 90s recounts her experiences with the introduction of genetically modified organisms to her homeland.

Rebuilding Paradise

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Rebuilding Paradise

2020 Climate Change

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The community of Paradise, California, a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, attempts to rebuild after devastating wildfires in 2018.

Restoring Indonesia's Peatlands—One Pasta at a Time

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Restoring Indonesia's Peatlands—One Pasta at a Time

2020 Global Perspectives, Food & Agriculture

One-size-fits-all agriculture has robbed Indonesia's peatlands of their moisture. Now, the country is working to restore these historic swamps by embracing their boggy nature -- and enjoying the pasta made from a water-loving crop

Riafn

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Riafn

2019 Global Perspectives

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This cinematic journey into the soundscape of the Alps condenses idiom, song, as well as calls and commands of shepherds to create a musical film between artistic ideal and documentarian realism.

The River Guards

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The River Guards

2020 Freshwater & Oceans

Faced with the enormous environmental and health crisis of a contaminated river and city, a dedicated community of grassroots activists have fought against corporate negligence and government bureaucracy for over 30 years.

Sand Castles

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Sand Castles

2019 Global Perspectives, Development & Built Environment

Spain was one of the countries most affected by the European economic crisis in 2008, leaving behind a desolate landscape of thousands of abandoned houses throughout its territory. Ten years later, the landscape is still shocking.

Saving the Javan Rhino of Ujung Kulon

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Saving the Javan Rhino of Ujung Kulon

2019 Wildlife, Conservation

The Javan rhino is the rarest rhino in the world, and it takes a dedicated and coordinated effort to ensure the survival of this elusive and majestic species.

Sea of Shadows

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Sea of Shadows

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Conservation

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Follows a team of dedicated scientists, high-tech conservationists, investigative journalists, and courageous undercover agents as well as the Mexican navy as they put their lives on the line to save the last remaining vaquitas.

The Serengeti Rules

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The Serengeti Rules

2019 Wildlife, Conservation, Adventure

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Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists headed out into the wilderness, driven by an insatiable curiosity about how nature works.

Serengeti: Nature’s Living Laboratory

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Serengeti: Nature’s Living Laboratory

2019 Wildlife, Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation

Explores the foundational research in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, that uncovered many of the ecological principles that govern how animal populations and communities are regulated.

Sheep Hero

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Sheep Hero

2019 Sustainable Living, Food & Agriculture

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Shepherd Stijn has a romantic worldview, but his idealism clashes with the harsh reality of having to be a modern entrepreneur. In this poignant and cinematic documentary, Stijn and his family try to keep the tradition of sheep herding alive.

Solar For All

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Solar For All

2020 Local, Energy & Resources

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Celebrates the successes and documents the challenges of the first two years of implementing Solar For All, Mayor Muriel Bowser's initiative to provide 100,000 low-to-moderate income families with the benefits of locally generated clean energy.

Spaceship Earth

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Spaceship Earth

2020 Climate Change, Sustainable Living, Development & Built Environment

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The true adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2.

Spawning Hope

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Spawning Hope

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Climate Change

Coral biologists are concerned about the genetic health of many endangered coral. This short film follows a team of scientists as they attempt to use cryopreserved coral sperm to introduce coral DNA to new populations of elkhorn coral.

Stories from the Blue: Million Waves Project

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Stories from the Blue: Million Waves Project

2020 Freshwater & Oceans

"What if doing something was better than doing nothing?" That's the question that sparked the Million Waves Project.

Street Surfers

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Street Surfers

2019 Global Perspectives, Sustainable Living

Frank Solomon, a big wave surfer and marine activist from Cape Town, South Africa, travels to meet two exceptional men, Thabo and Mokete, who indirectly serve the environment through recycling as a means of income.

Stuffed

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Stuffed

2019 Arts and Environment, Conservation

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In an unexpected twist, Stuffed reveals the importance of preserving nature, using taxidermy as its unlikely vehicle and the taxidermist as its wild driver.

There’s Something in the Water

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There’s Something in the Water

2018 Freshwater & Oceans

Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas, but its delicate ecosystem is threatened by a seemingly unstoppable invasive species of floating fern: giant salvinia.

This Land

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This Land

2020 Parks and Protected Areas, Conservation, Adventure

Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning. Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the controversy around public lands.

Tupí: A Story of Indigenous Courage and Resolve

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Tupí: A Story of Indigenous Courage and Resolve

2020 Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Indigenous Voices

Tupí is an Indigenous activist denouncing violence against women and fighting to protect human rights and the environment in her homeland at the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon.

Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air

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Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air

2020 Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Public Health

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Over the past fifty years, there has been major progress in significantly reducing air pollution across the nation thanks to the Clean Air Act. However, asthma continues to be the number one health issue for children and nearly half of all Americans across the country today are still impacted by unhealthy levels of air pollution.

Uncle Elephant

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Uncle Elephant

2019 Global Perspectives, Wildlife, Conservation

When he was young, Tuy Sereivathana (Vathana) dreamed of working in the forest. Today, his dream is realized in Cambodia's Prey Lang Forest, where Vathana conserves Asian elephants in collaboration with government partners and the Indigenous Kuy community.

Uniontown

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Uniontown

2019 Environmental Advocacy and Justice

This film weaves together the unheard individual narratives of grassroots organizers in Uniontown, Alabama, as they fight to take the town back from the hands of industrial polluters and complacent politicians in the midst of a high-stakes local election.

Venture Out

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Venture Out

2020 Sustainable Living, Adventure

Tells a story of overcoming odds, the power of resilience, and ultimately, the everlasting effects of LGBTQ community building.

Water Flows Together

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Water Flows Together

2020 Freshwater & Oceans, Indigenous Voices

For time immemorial, the Diné (Navajo) have considered the San Juan River sacred. Centuries-old stories and teachings connect the people with the river as it continues to serve as a physical and spiritual resource for the peoples who rely on it.

Watson

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Watson

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, History, Conservation

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Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson has spent 40 years fighting to end the destruction of the ocean's wildlife and its habitat.

We Will Stay

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We Will Stay

2020 Climate Change

Tangier Island, located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, has been shrinking because of climate change.

The Weight of Water

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The Weight of Water

2019 Adventure

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Blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer takes on an absurdly improbable challenge: kayaking the Grand Canyon.

What Can Be Saved: Vanishing Venezuela

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What Can Be Saved: Vanishing Venezuela

2020 Global Perspectives, Climate Change

Scientists in Venezuela persevere in their quest to study fragile alpine ecosystems as the country's only glacier quickly disappears and their country is in chaos.

Where Life Begins

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Where Life Begins

2020 Indigenous Voices

Explore the inseparable bond between mother and child as well as the sacred and fragile moments after birth and the importance of protecting the Arctic Coast, at the northernmost point on American soil.

Who Saved the Lagoon

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Who Saved the Lagoon

2020 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Conservation

Deep in the heart of the Baja California peninsula in an inlet of sparkling, jade-green waters, there exists the last pristine place left on earth for Pacific gray whales to breed and nurse their young.

The Wild

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The Wild

2019 Freshwater & Oceans, Wildlife, Environmental Advocacy and Justice, Conservation

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An urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker Mark Titus, who is fresh into addiction recovery, back to the Alaskan wilderness -- where the people of Bristol Bay and the world's largest wild salmon runs face devastation if a massive copper mine is constructed.

Wine Calling

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Wine Calling

2018 Global Perspectives, Sustainable Living, Food & Agriculture

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All around the world, joyous rebels have invaded the vineyards to create the wine they love: a natural wine free of codes and norms.

The Women of Kunda Basti

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The Women of Kunda Basti

2020 Global Perspectives, Freshwater & Oceans

Set during the blistering heat of summer in Jaipur, Rajasthan, The Women of Kunda Basti follows the lives of three women in an urban slum, where the burden of collecting and often fighting for water is carried by the community's mothers and daughters.

Women On a Mission: Technology Meets Tradition

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Women On a Mission: Technology Meets Tradition

2018 Global Perspectives, Indigenous Voices

A young Indigenous woman sets out to document the traditional knowledge of the older women in her community -- helping revive nearly forgotten customs as they work to restore their forest after decades of destruction.