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System Error

SYSTEM ERROR examines the fundamentals of capitalism and the continuing impact of Karl Marx as an analyst of it.

Ben Barka

A biography of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, abducted on the streets of Paris and murdered in 1965, the infamous "Ben Barka affair."

The Junction

They had little in common in life, but Israeli soldier David Biri and Palestinian Fahmi Abou Ammouneh are linked in death, their fates tied to a Gaza crossroads between an Israeli settlement and Palestinian refugee camp.

Kuxa Kanema

The story of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema (INC) - a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.

Matamata and Pilipili

Reclaims an important episode in the history of Congolese popular culture, the Matamata and Pilipili series of colonial-era film comedies, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.

People Power

The first in depth look at non-violent revolutions around the world.

The Ister

A journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.

The Jackets Green

Republicans in Northern Ireland answer the question "What are you fighting for?"

Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

Shohei Imamura profiles a former Karayuki-San who offers frank testimony into her horrific sexual slavery experiences.

Oxhide

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese family.

Level Five

In Chris Marker's futuristic reverie, game-developer Laura creates a video game based on the WWII Battle of Okinawa.

Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

Meet the Oscar-winner behind the ALIEN xenomorph and architect of nightmares.

Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui

A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui.

In the Name of the People

Four filmmakers travel with guerrillas into combat in El Salvador.

Integration Report 1

Brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.

Futures Market

A visual essay on cultural memory, urban space, and real estate speculation.

108 (Cuchillo de Palo)

Paraguayan director Renate Costa Perdomo investigates a gay man's persecution and murder.

Dam/Age

Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.

Dams, Drugs, Democracy

The massive Myitsone dam in northern Myanmar, funded by China, is a flashpoint in a civil war between the Kachin insurgency and the Burmese Army.  A team of local journalists investigate the  continuing struggle for control of Myanmar's rich natural resources.

Death by Design

Investigates the electronics industry and reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs.

Final Straw

Solutions for our ecological, economic, and social crises may come from unexpected places.  Final Straw, Food, Earth, Happiness offers a thought-provoking journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States, turning our perceptions of food and life upside down in a remarkably simple and poetic way.

Hope in a Changing Climate

Ethiopia, Rwanda and China prove that is possible to restore ecosystems on vast areas of land decimated by drought and poor farming. These results can help to stabilize the earth’s climate, eradicate poverty and make sustainable agriculture a reality.

Lifting the Veil on Polluters in China

In Beijing a small but ambitious environmental NGO is pressing major international corporations in the IT and textile industries including Apple, H&M and Hugo Boss, to take responsibility for suppliers who are foul China's air and water as they produce goods for Western consumers--with notable success.

Lessons of the Loess Plateau

A massive project, funded by China's government with support from the World Bank hired local villagers to restore the ecosystem of the Loess Plateau in an area the size of Belgium, transforming the land and improving community health.

Plastic China

Familes eke out a living on an area of the Chinese countryside covered almost entirely in imported plastic.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

The True Cost

An investigative look into the environmental costs of the fast fashion industry, from production—and the life of low wage workers in developing countries—to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death.

Under the Dome

A landmark film investigating the sources of China's deadly smog. Initially supported the government, it was seen by an estimated 200 million Chinese online before it was censored.

Yindabad

The struggle for fair compensation and relocation amidst India's Narmada Valley Development Project.

Homeland

The stories of five remarkable Native American activists in four communities who are fighting to protect Indian lands against disastrous environmental hazards, preserving their sovereignty and ensuring the cultural survival of their peoples.

People of a Feather

People of a Feather documents the ecological and social impact of the massive dams of northern Quebec, built in the 1970s. As the Inuit who live on the Belcher Islands discover, the dams are affecting the flow of water in Hudson's Bay, threatening the survival of the eider ducks that sustained the Inuit for millennia

Shelter in Place

An intimate portrait of a community battling against environmental pollution from Texas oil refineries and petrochemical plants.

Tar Creek

The story of the worst environmental disaster you've never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund in northeastern Oklahoma.

Come Hell or High Water

The journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport.

5x5

Five  films, each five minutes in length, examine the impact of illegal logging and oil palm plantations on the forest ecosystems that indigenous communities in Indonesia rely on. 

A River Changes Course

A breathtaking and unprecedented journey from the remote, mountainous jungles and floating cities of the Cambodian countryside to the bustling garment factories of modern Phnom Penh, A River Changes Course traces a devastating and beautiful story of an ancient culture ravaged by globalization

Arrows Against the Wind

West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for  25,000 years.  The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands.

Before the Flood I

Part I. The residents of the ancient Chinese cities of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes -- along with millions of other residents -- to make way for the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

Before the Flood II

Part II. Yan Yu follows up his first film with Before the Flood II, a profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished  and flooded during the construction of the Three Gorges dam.

Beijing Besieged By Waste

Director Wang Jiuliang traces the flow of garbage from his apartment to hundreds of toxic and illegal dumps grazed by sheep and plowed under by developers on the expanding edge of Beijing. He also discovers a determined community of scavengers who live in the wastelands.

Arrows Against the Wind

The Dani and the Asmat come face to face with the modern world in Irian Jaya.

Searching for Sacred Mountain

Journalist Liu Jianqiang and conservation biologist Lü Zhi discover a new way of looking at environmental conservation on the Tibetan Plateau where Buddhist monks and villagers have preserved vast tracts of land for centuries.

The Toxic Price of Leather in India

The environmental and social costs of the leather industry that is destroying the local Ganges River ecology and scarring the local people in the form of life-threatening illnesses.

Gold's Lethal Toll in Indonesia

Miners and their families suffer from mercury poisoning in as they search for gold. Small‐scale gold mining, widespread throughout the developing world, is one of the biggest sources of mercury pollution.

Waking the Green Tiger

By declaring that nature must be conquered in the name of progress, Chairman Mao ushered in an era of environmental destruction for China.  Forty years later farmers and activists launched a green movement to defend nature and stop a massive dam at on the upper Yangtze river. 

Eternity Has No Door of Escape

Brings viewers to the places and institutions in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium where the history of "Outsider Art" unfolded and continues to unfold today.

Jamilia

A search for Jamilia, the title character in the novella by Chingiz Aitmatov about a young woman who rebels against the rules of Kirghiz society.

The Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin

Two extraordinary human destinies, caught up in the implacable political machinery of the burgeoning Soviet Union of the 1920s, prey to famine.

A Republic Gone Mad

In 1954, Luc de Heush filmed the traditional harmonious relationship between Tutsi herdsmen and Hutu farmers in the Central African kingdom of Rwanda, then still a Belgian protectorate. Forty years later, a million Tutsi perish at the hands of the Hutu in the first genocide of modern African history.

A Tribe of His Own

Indian journalist reminds us of the meaning of responsible journalism.

Still Waters

In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Hispanic kids reading, creative writing and Latin.

Plane Truths

With the "Pivot to Asia" increased activity at the navy base on Whidbey Island, WA is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife - collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of our society.

The Heretic

Follows Rob Bell, former founder of a megachurch in Michigan, but now an influential writer and speaker, who spreads a message of love and inclusion and searches for what it means to be human.