Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
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The documentary contrasts the results of using genetically-modified crops purchased from multinational agrochemical corporations with the maintenance of community seedbanks and biodiversity.
Jens Schanze documents the impact on the residents of Otzenrath, a seven hundred-year-old village in North-Rhine Westphalia, following their relocation in order to make way for the Garzweiler II open-pit, brown coal mine.
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.
Director Bernhard Sallmann returns to Lusatia to complete his trilogy about the region by exploring its dreamscapes, orienting himself somewhere between the scars of an industrial past and signs that nature is beginning to reclaim the degraded environments that remain.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.
From genetically modified foodstuffs to animals and designer babies, this documentary explores the current and possible future impacts of genetic engineering on both the natural environment and human nature.
This is the story of farmer Percy Schmeiser who is drawn into a struggle for justice and, ultimately, survival in the face of exploitation by a multinational corporation.
Plastics are not going to go away any time soon. This film explores what the implications of this are for the environment and how many of the resulting problems might be avoided.
This dramatised film portrays the fate of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, dispossessed of their land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to make way for cultivation of genetically modified crops.