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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
3) Them!
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age. It begins in New Mexico with a child wandering in shock, a ransacked general store, and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill twenty men. It ends with an epic struggle in the 700 miles of storm drains under Los Angeles, where the insect hordes are beaten. But they₂re not conquered, because they spawned a generation of films about radioactive creatures.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Kate Winslet, this entertaining and surprising documentary will challenge the way you look at the food industry. What is the true cost of food? Who pays the price? Featuring shocking undercover footage and poignant first-hand accounts from indigenous people, this one-of-a-kind documentary will permanently change your perception of food and its connection to the future of our planet.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracking is actually safe. What he unearthed was a shocking discovery about a practice that is understudied and inadequately regulated, and raced to find answers about fracking...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, this is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. It offers attainable, common-sense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but also one that affects every aspect of life.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
10) Rachel Carson
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife....
11) Woman at war
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Icelandic
Description
50-year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
12) Fracknation
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Phelim McAleer searches for the truth about the alleged dangers of fracking, a method of extracting natural gas from shale rock by drilling deep underground, specifically challenging claims made by activist Josh Fox in his film Gasland. Interviewing scientists and individuals directly affected by fracking, McAleer uncovers presents a different side to the fracking debate.
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