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Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Once thought extinct, the Kakapo are now the world's rarest and strangest wild parrot -- a flightless, nocturnal bird with an odd mating call.. With a lifespan up to 120 years, the Kakapo were one of the most widespread birds on New Zealand until humans began a long process of altering the balance of the country's ecosystems. Now the world's last remaining Kakapo population in the world lives on a remote island and is plagued by a curse that could...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Featuring both coal and mining advocates as well as opponents, this is the preeminent film on the coal controversy. Every eleven and one-half days, the explosive equivalent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is unleashed upon the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky - for coal. Burning the Future: Coal in America challenges the concept of "clean coal", documenting the devastating ecological, social and health impact of coal mining and...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Over two million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Forty years later, tens of thousands of veterans still suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But a groundbreaking approach provides hope for these psychologically wounded former warriors, as well as for veterans of more recent wars.. Healing A Soldier's Heart follows the courageous journeys of four Vietnam veterans, all suffering from severe PTSD, who return to Vietnam to face the...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Most Americans now purchase organic food in some form, but don't know what "organic" really means. In Organic We Trust follows filmmaker Kip Pastor on a journey to answer the essential questions about organic: What exactly is certified organic? Is it really better for us, or just marketing hype? Is organic the key to transforming our food system? The first half of the film digs deep to investigate what "certified organic" means and the truth behind...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Using the story of the most successful commercial brand in world history, The Cola Conquest is a revealing examination of popular culture in America and the exportation of American commercialism around the globe. Beginning its inquiry in 1895, The Cola Conquest traces the evolution of commercial supply and demand, and how this dynamic was birthed and shaped through a century of mass urbanization and industrialization. An eye opening critique of the...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
People around the world face violence and inequality because of who they love or who they are. In 78 countries there are laws that forbid same sex contact, often with severe punishment.. These 7 short videos from Human Rights Watch highlight escalating cultures of violence and repression against LGBT individuals in several countries - South Africa, Russia, Cameroon, Jamaica, and Kyrgyzstan. Abuse survivors share their stories of human rights violations...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What is the impact on freedom of speech and the press when a big corporation attempts to suppress criticism and manipulate the media?. Documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten found out when he debuted his previous film, BANANAS!, which portrays the struggle of 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers who brought a lawsuit challenging fruit giant Dole Food's use of a banned pesticide. Shortly after BANANAS! was selected to premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival,...
10) Nagasaki Journey
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, Nagasaki Journey is a powerful, yet hopeful look at the immediate and continuing aftermath of the atomic bomb droppedAugust 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan.. The film tells the moving personal stories of two Japanese survivors and a U.S. Marine, who was one of the first American troops to occupy the city after the war ended. All three dramatically reveal how the impact of this single bomb forever transformed their...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nature sounds have been recognized as crucial indicators of environmental quality ever since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Traveling across the planet to every continent since the late 1960s, noted musician and soundscape ecologist Dr. Bernie Krause has recorded more than 15,000 species -- marine and terrestrial.. Nature sounds offer important information about the health of today's wild habitats and the life within them. Over...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This documentary directly challenges the claim of the nuclear industry and the government that "no one died" from the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plan in 1979, America's worst nuclear disaster.. Through the testimony of area residents and scientists, the documentary represents compelling evidence that cancer deaths and birth defects increased in the area surrounding the Pennsylvania plant.. The film reveals that the utility...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's Robert Simon had a vision for American life that was radically different from 1950's post-war suburban sprawl, which he felt isolated people. Simon dreamed of "another way of living" that valued community, nature, diversity and social equity. This innovative American planner set out to build a new kind of walkable suburban community that integrated citizens across racial, economic, and religious divides. His ambitious vision was...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On a snowy April day at Virginia Tech in 2007, 32 students and faculty were shot and killed by a lone gunman, 17 others were wounded, and six more were injured jumping out of windows.. Through the personal story of survivor Colin Goddard, Living for 32 tells the tragic tale of one of the worst gun massacres in recent American history, along with Goddard's inspirational journey of renewal and hope. The then-21-year-old was shot four times and told...
16) Bat City USA
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bat City USA is a compelling documentary about how a city overcame its fear of one of the world's most misunderstood creatures and now heartily embraces them, largely thanks to the efforts of one man.. A giant colony of Mexican Free-tailed bats moved into an Austin, Texas bridge in the 1980's after a reconstruction project created an ideal roosting habitat. The "bat invasion" launched a media hoopla and alarm among residents worried about bat attacks...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth, complete with military border guards.. Surprisingly, a defiant, spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last survivors...
18) Pink Boy
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A verite-style documentary profiling a gender non-conforming boy growing up in a conservative area of rural Florida...Six-year old Jeffrey likes nothing better than to put on a gown and dance for his two lesbian moms, who adopted him expecting they would raise a boy. Butch lesbian mom BJ successfully avoided dresses and girls' toys her entire life and admits she initially had a hard time when her son expressed feminine interests..."Pink boys" have...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Now more than 70 years after the first and only nuclear bombs were used in war, North Korea's nuclear tests and the potential for a new global arms race provide stark reminders of the enormous threat posed by the most lethal weapon ever invented...Produced and directed by former ABC News executive producer Robert Frye, THE NUCLEAR REQUIEM presents an updated, in-depth reflection on the continuing danger nuclear weapons pose, an honest assessment of...
