Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss

In Papua New Guinea, village leaders reach into their past to revive a canoe-launching ceremony, while embracing a modern strategy of lawsuits to stop a nickel mine that plans to […]

Ends of the Earth, The

Take an Odyssean voyage of outward adventure and inner reflection to the Alaska Peninsula, a narrow frontier between warm and cold latitudes extending 500 miles from the Alaskan mainland. Separating […]

Last Mountain, The

The fight for the last great mountain in America’s Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant, Massey Energy, which wants to explode the mountain to extract the coal within, against the […]

Village Called Versailles, A

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed […]

Can’t Stop the Water

For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied a tiny island deep in the bayous of south Louisiana called Isle de Jean Charles. They have fished, hunted and […]

Man Who Pants Trees, The

Many people think that the story about a man who plants trees is fictional. Actually, this man really exists. His name is Ernest Vunan and he lives in misty mountains […]

Lost Thing, The

This animated fable tells the story of a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realizing it is lost, he tries to find […]

Little Mole, The

Enjoy an afternoon with the family watching the Czech classic animated films of Zdeněk Miler, a renowned Czech animator, who created Krtek (Little Mole) in the 1950s. The mole became […]

Last Dogs of Winter

For the past 40 years, in a remote and harshly beautiful corner of northern Manitoba, Brian Ladoon has devoted his life to preserving and breeding an endangered species: the Qimmiq, […]