The Creek Runs Redby Bradley Beesley, James Payne, and Julianna Brannum The Environmental Protection Agency calls the former lead mining town of Picher, Oklahoma one of the most toxic places in America, but a dwindling population still calls it home. The Creek Runs Red explores the human response to environmental disaster, and the complex connections between people and place. Independent Lens | |
Deep Downby Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find themselves at the center of a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. Independent Lens | |
The Digby Bennett Cohen As the world faces environmental collapse, a group of archaeologists venture into a toxic desert wasteland, determined to unearth a lost civilization. Can this ancient disaster help them avert their own ruin? FUTURESTATES | |
Dirt! The Movieby Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow Industrial farming, mining and urban development have endangered soil and resulted in cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. How can humans reconnect to dirt — the living skin of the Earth? Independent Lens | |
Eating Alabamaby Andrew Beck Grace A filmmaker turns the camera on himself as he and his wife upend their lives in pursuit of local food, discovering along the way stories about community, sustainability, and identity. | |
Escape from Affluenza: Living Better on Lessby John de Graaf A sequel to Affluenza, a documentary which introduced Americans to the national epidemic of rampant consumerism and materialism. | |
Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bisonby Doug Hawes-Davis Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison tells the rich history of the bison, an American icon of the wild with deep ties to native peoples, which is struggling today to reestablish itself in the Great Plains. | |
Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasisby Amie Williams Residents of a quiet ranching community and “Top Gun” naval air base struggle to discover why the children of their town are diagnosed with leukemia at 44 times the national average. | |
Fenceline: A Company Town Dividedby Slawomir Grunberg and Jane Greenberg The social divisions in Norco, Louisiana — a company town in the middle of the Mississippi River’s notorious “cancer alley” — are literally black and white. POV, True Stories | |
A Fish Storyby Courtney Hayes and Tim Gallagher A Fish Story is a tale of two women who lead their communities in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing tradition and the health of the ocean hang in the balance. Independent Lens |
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