Island Observed (1966)

Marko é um solitário e pensativo estudante de uma escola agrícola, que luta contra a apatia do lugar, uma fazenda fora de Berlim. A vida simples do rapaz é mudada com a chegada de Jakob, um jovem adorável, sorridente e sensível. A amizade entre os dois floresce e os leva ao mais profundo território emocional. Enquanto o ambiente se mostra estranho e difícil, carinhosamente eles seguem em frente.

World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.

HOME - NOSSO PLANETA, NOSSA CASA é uma experiência original que registra uma viagem única pelo planeta Terra. Filmado inteiramente do ponto de vista de cima, pelo consagrado fotógrafo Yann Arthus-Bertrand, HOME visa sensibilizar, educar e conscientizar as platéias de todo o mundo sobre a fragilidade de nosso lar, ao demonstrar que tudo que é vivo e belo sobre nosso planeta está interligado. HOME estréia 5 de junho, dia mundial do meio ambiente, em mais de 50 países, com uma missão: alertar que, apesar dos males que causamos nos últimos 50 anos à Terra, ainda há chance de salvarmos nossa casa.

This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder." To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message - but will we listen?

O diretor Morgan Spurlock decide ser a cobaia de uma experiência: se alimentar apenas em restaurantes da rede McDonald's, realizando neles três refeições ao dia durante um mês. Durante a realização da experiência o diretor fala sobre a cultura do fast food nos Estados Unidos, além de mostrar em si mesmo os efeitos físicos e mentais que os alimentos deste tipo de restaurante provocam.

Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) é o principal porta-voz das grandes empresas de cigarros, ganhando a vida defendendo os direitos dos fumantes nos Estados Unidos. Desafiado pelos vigilantes da saúde e também por um senador oportunista, Ortolan K. Finistirre (William H. Macy), que deseja colocar rótulos de veneno nos maços de cigarros, Nick passa a manipular informações de forma a diminuir os riscos do cigarro em programas de TV. Além disto Nick conta com a ajuda de Jeff Megall (Rob Lowe), um poderoso agente de Hollywood, para fazer com que o cigarro seja promovido nos filmes. Sua fama faz com que Nick atraia a atenção dos principais chefes da indústria do tabaco e também de Heather Holloway (Katie Holmes), a repórter de um jornal de Washington que deseja investigá-lo. Nick repetidamente diz que trabalha apenas para pagar as contas, mas a atenção cada vez maior que seu filho Joey (Cameron Bright) dá ao seu trabalho começa a preocupá-lo.

A feature length documentary which covers all aspects of holistic cancer treatments and the main causes of cancer. More than 30 Presenters, leading doctors in the field of holistic cancer treatments, Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, Health Advocates, Psychologists share their knowledge with you how to prevent and reverse cancer. This film gives you insights about our present health system and the undeniable mistakes in treating cancer as well as a comprehensive holistic healing approach to cancer never seen before. "Cancer is Curable Now " informs about all options you have for you and your family's health in curing, treating or preventing cancer as well as all other degenerative diseases. Being informed could save your life.

De há três anos a esta parte as abelhas andam a morrer em todo o mundo. Embora as causas ainda continuem a ser um mistério, uma coisa é clara: está em causa algo mais do que a simples morte de uns quantos insectos e bem mais do que apenas uma questão de mel. Em busca de respostas, o filme embarca numa viagem para encontrar as pessoas cujas vidas dependem das abelhas: de um apicultor suíço que vive nos Alpes até aos gigantescos pomares de amendoeiras na Califórnia, passando por um investigador do cérebro das abelhas em Berlim, uma comerciante de pólen na China e as abelhas assassinas do deserto do Arizona. Todos referem o desaparecimento das abelhas. O filme fala-nos das suas vidas. E das nossas.

A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, from the emotional challenge of living with a fatal illness to the frustration of maintaining daily routines,.

A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm.

A shocking and informative expose of the "Cancer Industry" and the "Western Diet".

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The film looks behind the fear, hype and politics that polarize people into emotionally charged pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine camps with no room for middle ground. Verite stories of individuals and their families, whose lives have been forever changed by vaccine choices, interwoven with interviews from leading experts in the field, will re-frame the vaccine debate and offer, for the first time, the opportunity to have a rational, scientific and factual discussion on how to create a more effective vaccine program in America today.

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.

One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.

Young Jim and Judy learn about proper eating, keeping clean, proper rest and good toilet habits.