Surviving Progress
Featuring some of the world’s great contemporary thinkers, this compelling film explores the concept of progress in our modern world and, more specifically, the idea of “progress traps.” Simply put, […]
Featuring some of the world’s great contemporary thinkers, this compelling film explores the concept of progress in our modern world and, more specifically, the idea of “progress traps.” Simply put, […]
In 2011, a century had passed since the first oil extraction in Ecuador. In Sucumbíos, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the oil drilling began in 1967 and has affected five indigenous […]
Distinguished Swedish film director Stefan Jarl is concerned about the “chemical society” we have been building since World War II. Back then, humans used one million tons of chemicals per […]
In a land where many have known nothing but war, a tightly knit and fiercely proud people, the indigenous Nasa, are caught in the middle of a long-running civil war […]
For more than 50 years, we’ve launched our dreams into space. We’ve successfully brought back astronauts, space shuttles, moon rocks, images of the universe and a massive amount of data. […]
The slums of Mumbai are a long way from the Austrian Alps, but Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless score for “The Sound of Music” transcends generations and continents to inspire the […]
The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called “sky walkers” because they […]
This sensory journey to the heart of the tropics lovingly captures such species as monkeys, deer, birds and spiders, depicting their symbiosis with the sea and the rain in this […]
“The Spanish brought the cross and took the silver,” are the words the filmmaker uses to describe his pointed analysis of a 1758 naïve painting depicting villages, workers and silver […]
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only a few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the […]