Follow Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on their monumental and historic first ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 through interviews, photography and original and staged film footage. Shot in New […]

Can a film change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain the greatest natural mystery of our planet? Can we help our children believe in a better […]

Washington, D.C. Premiere The crew at a climate-research center high in the German Alps discovers a mysterious red liquid on a nearby retreating glacier that seems to be turning local […]

Four films interpret the unique pleasures and chance opportunities that solitary treks can bring. Far from mere run-of-the-mill ramblings, each of these hikes becomes a sort of virtuoso feat—some real, […]

Somewhere between visual anthropology and art-house cinema, this film, shot beautifully in black and white, captures a microcosm of Mexican society. Two photographers, Gerardo Barroso Alcalá and Lisa Tillinger have […]

In the early 20th century, when rare birds such as heron and egrets are being hunted and killed illegally to supply the millinery industry with feathers, naturalist Walt Murdoch arrives […]

Each year, when the dry season arrives in Oromia (Ethiopia), the Borana herders gather with their livestock around their ancient “singing” wells. With a sensitive approach and evocative photography, the […]

In central Switzerland’s Muota Valley, an old tradition is still alive. In this modern age of satellite pictures and computer-generated predictions, the spry old men who live in the mountains […]

Villagers in central China confront a chemical company that is poisoning their land and water in this rare portrait of grassroots activism in contemporary China. When his own fields could […]

Thanks to laptops, speakers, radios, newspapers, video cameras, cell phones, etc, indigenous people have been integrating mass media to strengthen their claims and the recognition of their rights. Paradoxically, the […]