Recomended Viewing Black Gold DVD Black Gold is a 2006 documentary film about the international coffee trade and the ramifications for the farmers who grow coffee, with a focus on the coffee industry in Ethiopia. Images of those who enjoy the coffee produced are in stark contrast to the footage of the impoverished conditions faced by the Ethiopian coffee farmers and their families.
The Corporation DVD This documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. It shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person.
A Crude Awakening DVD A Crude Awakening examines our dependence on oil, showing how it is essential for almost every facet of our modern lifestyle, from driving to work to clothing and clean tap water. It asks the tough question, “What happens when we run out of cheap oil?” Through expert interviews, the film spells out in startling detail the challenges we would face in dealing with the possibility of a world without cheap oil, a world in which it may ultimately take more energy to drill for oil than we can extract from the oil the wells produce.
Dirty Oil DVD This film takes us deep behind the scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists, big oil officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly impacted by the largest industrial project on the planet today, the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the emotional and irreversible toll this black gold rush fueled by America’s addiction to oil is taking on our planet.
The End of the Line DVD In The End of the Line, a major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, we see at first-hand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. The film examines the imminent extinction of Bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing Western demand for sushi, the impact on marine life resulting in a huge overpopulation of jellyfish and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
Fast Food Nation DVD A fictionalized thriller inspired by Eric Schlosser’s bestselling non-fiction exposé of junk food companies. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths, from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate
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