A first person investigation into America's booming corn industry, King Corn features two Boston-based college friends, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, who decide to move back to their hometown of Greene, Iowa to plant and harvest an acre of corn...
Filmed over two years across the world - on land and at sea - The End of the Line represents a stark warning about the consequences of overfishing. Rupert Murray's eye-opening film, based on British journalist Charles Clover's book of the same name, connects the dots between global trends in fishing, the increasing desire for sushi and foreign food sources in the western world, high-tech fishing methods, and the disastrous implications of a future world devoid of fish that would bring about mass starvation.
This powerful and sweeping documentary touches on issues of globalization, colonialism, economics, ecological studies, and political upheaval in Africa. About fifty years ago Europeans introduced the Nile Perch into the waters of Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake...
A concise and comprehensive documentary that provides a history of mortgage finance in America from the 1930s through the recent home financing meltdown, and resulting economic recession. In ten chapters, Gary Gasgarth's film balances interviews with Wall Street insiders and experts with testimonials from average families caught in the midst of the housing pyramid scheme...