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41) Watershed
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West.
43) Water warriors
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When an energy company begins searching for natural gas, a multicultural alliance -- including members of the Mi'kmaq Elsipogtog First Nation, Acadians, and English-speaking families--unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.
45) Warning shot
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out of control.
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Description
aLiving West Water: What happened to the Ancient Puebloans of Mesa Verde and Goodman Point? After settling in southwest Colorado for over 700 years, they suddenly left their cliff dwellings and spring side kivas, leaving behind a variety of archaeological treasures. Historians and archaeologists discuss the possibility that this drastic move was caused by a devastating drought in the southwest region. Discover the similarities in conditions and what...
47) The Mist
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly...
48) Warning shot
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out of control.
50) Minamata
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Attica: Demanding improvments in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
52) Gasland
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
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...
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
Fight club: A man sets up a fight club in which young men are paired off in bloody no-holds-barred bouts until one drops.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is determined to find out who and what's behind the melee. As he pieces together the clues with the help of a half-charred Hungarian gangster and an outspoken crippled con man from New York, Kujan...
Description
George has a friend named Allie who wants to learn all about being a monkey; George promised he would stay clean for picture day, but when he helps dye eggs, he falls into a pot of dye and turns completely yellow; Bill and the Man with the Yellow Hat are excited for their big hike, but they get stuck on a ledge and George has to find a way to help; It's love at first sight when Hundley meets Professor Wiseman's kitten, but Hundley's allergic to cats;...
56) Even the rain
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian and his cynical producer Costa arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken.
57) The mist
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's shoppers...
58) Minamata
Pub. Date
2020
Description
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.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, two iconic waterways--the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay--are in perilous condition. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists fear contamination to the food chain and drinking water for millions of people. A growing list of endangered species also is threatened in both estuaries. Poisoned Waters examines...
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