Recipes for Disaster

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class […]

Gold’s Lethal Toll in Indonesia

Small-scale gold mining, widespread throughout the developing world, is one of the biggest sources of mercury pollution. A film by photojournalist Larry Price and producer P.J. Tobia for PBS NewsHour, part of […]

Ribbon of Sand

Many travelers think they know the Outer Banks, but south of Ocracoke Inlet rises a luminous bar of sand almost sixty miles in extent: the wild, remote beaches of Cape Lookout National […]

Good Life

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by […]

Law of the Jungle

A devious little monkey tricks two big monkeys into letting him eat the biggest part of a banana.   Directed and produced by Pascale Hecquet.  

River of Gold

What will be the fate of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, as this critical region of priceless biodiversity is turned into a hellish wasteland? Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster, two war journalists […]

SEED: The Untold Story

We’re in the midst of a crisis of genetic diversity: we’ve lost over 94% of our vegetable seed varieties, leaving our food supply dangerously vulnerable to blight and famine. Chemical seed corporations […]

Sonic Sea

Throughout the ocean, whales depend on sound to mate, find food, migrate, and defend against predators. A century ago the seas were silent, but now humans fill them with an […]

Something Better to Come

Inside the guarded perimeter of Svalka, a hellish junkyard on the outskirts of Moscow, a dogged yet vibrant community ekes out a life, dreaming of escape. Filmmaker Hanna Polak follows Yula, a child of […]