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Showing 1 - 10 of 30 titles with a criteria of Subject is Rural Sociology
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
Deckert Distribution | 2016 | 60 minutes
Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty
Tribal members on the Crow reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community.
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 20 minutes
The Dyak Iban Way of Farming
* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who? Film 3 of 7
Kynan Tegar, a young Indigenous filmmaker, defends the long-established use of controlled burning in sustainable farming in his Sungai Utik village in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Face to Face Media | 2021 | 13 minutes
E. F. Schumacher...
Summary of Schumacher's economic arguments referring to the world energy situation.
Bullfrog Films | 1979 | 16 minutes
Escuela
ESCUELA is a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.
Women Make Movies | 2002 | 53 minutes
Farmsteaders
Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as a locally sustainable family farm.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
Fight for Areng Valley + Lost World
In the Areng valley in southwest Cambodia members of the Chong community, supported by Buddhist monks, oppose the construction of a dam that would flood their forest homeland. In Lost World sand mining on Cambodia's west coast undermines the mangrove forests ecosystem that supports a local fishery and a communal way of life. This title has one or more clips.
Face to Face Media | 2018 | 25 minutes
Fighting in Southwest Louisiana
A portrait of Danny Cooper, a mailman in the rural American South who has been openly gay since high school in the middle of “redneck” country.
Strange Attractions | 1992 | 27 minutes
The Grasslands Project - A Ranchers View
Miles Anderson is in a tough spot. The land he ranches has been in his family for over a hundred years, but it’s bordered on three sides by an expanding Grasslands National Park and its conservation imperative.
National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 8 minutes
The Grasslands Project - After the Fire
Small rural communities rely on their volunteer firefighters to handle any emergencies.
National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 10 minutes