Las Animas - Bent County Library District

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas that stretches across huge stretches of the northeast United States, 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 fracturing (or fracking) is actually safe. What he unearthed was a discovery about a practice that is understudied...

Presents a visual journey to aquatic ecosystems on five continents to reveal how water shapes and sculpts the landscape and provides food and refuge for an array of species.

Follows former war photographer W. Eugene Smith as he travels to Minamata, Japan in 1971 to document the mercury poisoning of local residents resulting from water pollution by a powerful corporation and the complicit government.