documentary

Eco-educational Films and Slideshows

Posted by Siel on June 9, 2009 - 2:24pm.

From green architecture in Los Angeles to environmental scenes from under the ocean, the web's got a lot of great eco-educational entertainment for your work break.


How To Enjoy World Oceans Day

Posted by Siel on June 2, 2009 - 3:47pm.

June 8 is World Oceans Day! Find out about the new eco-educational ways to celebrate our waters.


Enlighten Up!: The "Reality" of the Documentary

Posted by Derek Beres on April 16, 2009 - 1:39pm.

Filmmaker Kate Churchill's new documentary on yoga, Enlighten Up!, offers great glimpses into the lives of important teachers and calls out the fashion of yoga, though at times falling into the fashion of "reality" fillmmaking



Filmmaker Patrick Creadon Makes It All Add Up in I.O.U.S.A.

Filmmaker Patrick Creadon Makes It All Add Up in I.O.U.S.A.Posted by Jessica Ridenour on November 7, 2008 - 5:27pm.

Why make I.O.U.S.A.? You don’t make a movie about finance to pick up chicks.



Me and You and Everyone

Me and You and Everyone  Posted by Jessica Ridenour on October 19, 2008 - 9:41pm.

By Amelia Glynn



Green Film: The 11th Hour Cometh

9:09 minutes (2.1 MB)
Josh Dorfman discusses the trend of "green films." The movie An Inconvenient Truth raised environmental consciousness to new heights. Now Leonardo DiCaprio picks up where Al Gore left off with the release of The 11th Hour, the feature-length environmental documentary that he produced and narrates.


Off-Road Vehicles on the Rise

Off-Road Vehicles on the RisePosted by Hans Gutknecht on May 30, 2006 - 8:00am.

Sales of off-road vehicles have sky-rocketed recently. What environmental impact does this have? Should off-road vehicles be allowed in national parks?

Motor examines the controversial issue of off-road motor vehicle use on public lands and documents the heavy environmental damage that jeeps, ATVs, jet skis, snowmobiles, and all the other personal motorized transportation devices coming on the market cause in areas that Congress has set aside to be preserved land for future generations.




The Human Cost of Mining

The Human Cost of MiningPosted by Philip Higgs on May 1, 2006 - 7:29am.

Mining is no friend of the planet: erosion, deforestation, groundwater contamination, silting, the list goes on. Here's a more direct look at another of its impacts: the human cost.

The Devil's Miner, a documentary by Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson observes the thousands of miners, hundreds of them children, scouring the silver mines at Cerro Rico, the "rich mountain" outside Potosi, Bolivia.




The Disneyfication Of Agatha Christie, Hypnotist

The Disneyfication Of Agatha Christie, HypnotistPosted by Spiros Antonopoulos on January 9, 2006 - 1:52pm.

A scientific study reported on in the Times Online UK (here) and in the BBC News (here) suggests that by reading Agatha Christie you become hypnotized. Mesmerized by her repetitive phrases, the study claims that your brain secretes, in Skinner box fashion, “the chemical messengers… that induce pleasure and satisfaction”.



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