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1) 2040
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.
Publisher
Take Action Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Examines the problem posed by the vast amounts of garbage produced in the industrialized world and the effects of this output on nature, by following an average family in Toronto -- and the garbage they produce over a three month period. As they discover where their garbage goes and at what cost to the environment, the McDonald household engages the audience with an 'open door reality-check.'
6) Spider-man 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry. Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever of Peter. One day Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, resurfaces after a failed science experiment. Peter begins to notice he's losing some of his powers and wonders at the stress in his personal life. He realizes...
9) Fresh
Publisher
Ripple Effect Productions
Pub. Date
[2009 ;]
Language
English
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
Ã2018.
Language
English
Description
Alarmed by drastic changes in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating, and making other simple, fulfilling changes. Ultimately, he slashed his climate impact to under a tenth of the US average and became happier in the process. Being the change explores the connections between our individual daily...
Publisher
The Message Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond....
12) Thirst
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A documentary without narration that explores how water and the ownership and control of water figure into community resistance to corporations rapidly buying up local water supplies. Examines the environmental and human rights issues associated with governments and companies making the world's fresh water supply into a commodity at the expense of local communities. Visits locations in Stockton, California, Bolivia, and India.
Publisher
[Earth Films]
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Documents the saga of the destruction of North America's oldest temperate rainforests, told through the eyes of forest defenders who share their insights from their perches high in the trees. On the ground, local residents, Native Americans, biologists, loggers, and government officials express their opinions.
14) Spider-Man 2
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent, or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry and his beloved Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever. Peter begins to notice that he's losing some of his powers and wonders if the cost of being a superhero isn't too high. Meanwhile Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, has turned into a maniacal...
Publisher
1 Earth Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior. From the Koch Brothers to ExxonMobil, to oil industry front groups, to prominent politicians...