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A CONVENIENT TRUTH: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
This informative, inspirational documentary is aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. |
464 |
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Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
The first feature documentary to fully investigate the growing threat posed by the unprecedented loss of biodiversity on the planet -- its causes, impact and what can be done. |
722 |
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Counting Sheep: Restoring the Sierra Nevada Bighorn
Counting Sheep chronicles the struggle for survival of the wild Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, a majestic emblem of American wilderness. Shot and produced over the course of twelve years, Counting Sheep captures the plight of the Sierra bighorn with dynamic interviews and exquisite footage the first film ever of one of the most endangered mammals of North America. |
374 |
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DISCOVER HETCH HETCHY with Harrison Ford
In 1890 the Hetch Hetchy Valley was preserved as the most beautiful natural feature in the northern half of Yosemite National Park. Like its renowned twin, Yosemite Valley, Hetch Hetchy was carved by glaciers and is ringed by sheer granite cliffs and waterfalls. Tragically, this national treasure was dammed and flooded under 300 feet (100 meters) of water for use as a reservoir in 1923. Hosted and narrated by Harrison Ford. |
358 |
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Division Street
Shot in stunning locations throughout North America -- including Banff National Park, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, and the Everglades -- Division Street takes us on a road-trip that looks at the promise of wildlife corridors, the potential for 'greening' our highway system, and the fusion of high-tech engineering with the best and brightest environmental research happening today. |
688 |
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Gimme Green
Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life. Lawns are undeniably an American symbol. But what do they really symbolize? Pride and prosperity? Or waste and conformity? |
506 |
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No Room To Move
No Room To Move explores the effect of urban sprawl on sensitive wildlife in Florida - developers entomb tortoises as they construct homes, and speeding cars kill bears as they cross Floridas busy roads. This thirty-minute documentary also examines how Florida could accommodate the needs of its wildlife and its growing human population through a development model known as The New Urbanism. |
552 |
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Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities
The Film Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities addresses the impacts of the modern ski resort industry on mountain communities and environments. Including footage and interviews from dozens of ski areas, experts and concerned community members throughout North America, Resorting to Madness reveals the negative side of an otherwise glamorous sport and offers up suggestions to protect and maintain mountain environments and communities. |
558 |
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Return of the Dodo
A shared fascination for the Dodo, a passion for wildlife, and desire to protect ecosystems is what unites a characterful group of artists and scientists. They inspire each other to reconstruct in bronze nine extinct creatures from Mauritius, including the Dodo, for return to their natural habitat. |
98 |
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Sick-Amour
A beautiful and forlorn tree, stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot. Hit by cars, and starved for water and oxygen. Drawn to the tree and outraged by the indignities that it endures, Joel Tauber devotes himself to improving the trees life. Passionately narrated by Tauber and peppered with interviews by experts in a variety of disciplines, Sick-Amour is a highly unusual documentary. It examines the tree in a multi-faceted manner, offering it as a microcosm of the plight of urban trees and of forgotten individuals. Simultaneously, the film is a love story between Joel and the tree. |
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