— For Home Use Only— Drawing on interviews with veteran activists like Civil Rights leader Bernard Lafayette, scientists like behaviorist Frans de Waal and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, political scientist Erica Chenoweth, futurist Elisabet Sahtouris and…
The Third Mind is a documentary that explores the creative and artistic collaboration between Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek and Beat poet, Michael McClure. It explains and celebrates their "Third Mind" and why it works so well. Insights from Alan Ginsberg, Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), David…
This film follows a couple home with their first baby, Zoe, and documents the two weeks following. The mother and father talk about myths and realities of parenthood as they experience them. It is a time of hard work and new commitments.
In 1986, The Anti-Drug Abuse Act was passed by the U.S. Congress, which directly led to The Three-strikes Law. Because of this, a group of women started The Decarceration Collective and have been working tirelessly to seek clemency for people serving inhumane life sentences for non-violent drug offenses.…
Immediately following the 2004 tsunami disaster, Alison and Oscar raced to Sri Lanka, with little money or experience, and planned to volunteer for two weeks. Along the way, they met up with two other volunteers - Donny and Bruce. Together they found themselves running a refugee camp for over a year.…
The Thirteenth - an Icelandic adventure of Trolls, Elves and 13 Yule Lads An amazing documentary about the annual Thirteenth celebration in Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland. The Thirteenth has been celebrated since 1948. The celebration is a giant outdoor theatre performance, thanks to more than 200 volunteers…
“You have to feel the music inside you when you play…the Erhu has the tears of a thousand people...it is the closest thing to the human voice. To learn music is to learn life.” Meet the Guo sisters, two passionate young Chinese students of the two-stringed fiddle. Listen and resonate…
Junk food makes children more vulnerable to disease later in life. A survey by the Department of Health has shown that children's meals and snacks consist mainly of chips, cakes and biscuits, which crowd out essential foods. The high fat and sugar content makes today's children more vulnerable…
Jonathon Porritt. the author of ''Seeing Green', is one of the best known exponents of the environmental movement. In this recorded lecture he talks about an optimistic and coherent philosophy of ecological thought which has emerged from the crisis of industrialism in this century. He…
In October 1967 the filmmaker was beaten at an antiwar demonstration in Oakland, California. Thirty years later he set out to find the police officers who were present at that event—his best clue, a news photograph of himself getting clubbed. The Thursday Club is for anyone interested in the explosive…
What does death means to the living? “Tibetan Book of the Dead” is a deep insight and understanding of death, that has been obtained by sincere quest and accumulation of knowledge. It tells that transmigration of souls can be led to their enlightenment. And it is still read besides a dying…
Before there was Tiger King on Netflix, there was The Tiger Next Door on Animal Planet. “A great documentary on the stupidity of keeping wild animals as pets” — Bill Maher “Jaw-dropping” – Orlando Sentinel “Downright disturbing… a must-see”…
