A Tale of Two Lands (2016)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 0M
Director : Katharine Round
Sinopse
Palm oil development in Liberia told through three interweaving stories. Bacchus works slashing the fields at a palm oil plantation.Lee, a local farmer, is fighting to keep his land. David is running the palm oil company.
The Game Changers é um documentário de 2018 sobre os benefícios da alimentação à base de plantas para atletas. Ele abrange várias histórias de sucesso de atletas de origem vegetal, faz referência a estudos científicos e aborda outros argumentos para dietas baseadas em plantas que se estendem a não atletas
In this sequel to the award-winning You’ve Been Trumped, director Anthony Baxter once again follows American billionaire Donald Trump and a cast of other greedy characters who want to turn some of the Earth’s most precious places into golf courses and playgrounds for the super rich. From the historic site of Dubrovnik to the ancient sand dunes and rolling green hills of the seaside town of Balmedie, these tycoons bully local residents, influence governments, ignore local referendums and even meddle in national environmental policies to acquire their latest trophies. With in-depth interviews and Baxter’s expert storytelling, we learn just how devastating these golf courses can be to the surrounding countryside and water tables. In this funny, inspiring and at times heartbreaking David and Goliath story for the 21st century, the locals don’t give in easily. But will their fight be enough to protect their land and traditional way of life?
A ascensão da humanidade é frequentemente medida pela velocidade do progresso. Mas e se o progresso for realmente um espiral invertido, em direção ao colapso? Ronald Wright, cujo best-seller, "A short history of progress" inspirou "Sobrevivendo ao Progresso", mostra como antigas civilizações foram destruídas por “armadilhas do progresso" - tecnologias atraentes e sistemas de crenças que servem as necessidades imediatas, mas não resguarda o futuro. Como a pressão sobre os recursos do mundo acelera e elites financeiras levam nações à falência, poderá nossa civilização globalmente entrelaçada escapar de uma última armadilha catastrófica do progresso? Com imagens poderosas e insights clarificadores de pensadores que examinaram nossos genes, nossos cérebros e nosso comportamento social, este réquiem ao progresso como conhecemos também representa um desafio: provar que educar os macacos não é uma má ideia evolucionária.
The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.
Uma alteração abrupta de clima irá provocar vários cataclismos em todo o Planeta. O meteorologista Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), nos seus estudos, prevê a chegada de uma nova Idade do Gelo, mas não contando que isso fosse acontecer proximamente. Uma súbita e violenta mudança na temperatura global irá causar extremas perturbações em todos os cantos da Terra; inundações, tempestades de neves, tornados e temperaturas de uma magnitude que nunca antes haviam ameaçado o Planeta. Jack tem de convencer rapidamente o Presidente dos Estados Unidos a ordenar a evacuação do país no sentido de salvar milhões de pessoas que estão em perigo, incluindo o seu filho Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal). Quando Sam está isolado numa Nova Iorque abaixo de zero, Jack tem de fazer uma perigosa corrida contra o tempo para salvar o seu filho.
Quando o melhor amigo de um agente federal morre devido ao contato com resíduos tóxicos, ele vai para a pequena cidade onde morava para tentar investigar o caso, mas misteriosamente as pessoas se recusam a colaborar. Porém ele descobre quem pode ajudá-lo e fica sabendo que uma empresa está despejando lixo contaminado em qualquer lugar para cortar custos e que crianças locais estão adoecendo .
Off-grid is not a state of mind. It is not about being out of touch, living in a remote place, or turning off your mobile phone. Off-grid simply means living without a connection to the electric and natural gas infrastructure. From 2011 to 2013 Jonathan Taggart (Director) and Phillip Vannini (Producer) spent two years travelling across Canada to find 200 off-gridders and visit them in their homes. -
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basement for "Wonderland," and Akane finds herself labelled Wonderland's savior.
Uma cientista culpa o chefe de uma grande empresa por causar um desastre ecológico na América do Sul. Mas quando um vulcão, dado como inativo, começa a apresentar sinais de erupção, eles devem unir forças para evitar um enorme desastre e salvar o mundo, apesar de suas diferenças ideológicas.
From space, our planet appears as a tiny blue dot in the vastness of space. Blue, because 99% of all living space on Earth occurs in the Ocean. But the seas are under threat. The industrialization that has occurred in the oceans over the last century mirrors the events that triggered mass extinctions on land. As we learn of the ecological crimes occurring worldwide, we also uncover the shocking truths happening on our own shorelines.
A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and nature's unexpected response to being threatened by human interference.
No agitado mundo humano, vários demônios estão escondidos e vivem em paz com os humanos. Luo Xiaohei, o demônio gato, começa sua jornada de peregrinação porque sua casa na floresta foi destruída. Em sua busca por um novo lar, ele encontra outros demônios, bem como aliados humanos compreensivos, deixando Hei no dilema de qual lado será sua verdadeira atribuição.
Médico do governo, Dr. Robert Verne, e sua esposa grávida são enviados para Maine, para intermediar um conflito entre uma tribo de nativos americanos e uma exploradora de madeira. A empresa está sendo acusada de envenenar a água, causando a mutação dos animais selvagens locais. Dr. Robert captura um filhote de urso para fazer testes, e logo descobre que se tornou o alvo de um mutante furioso.
Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
"Go Further" explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fueled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives.
When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her mother scooped her up to save her from the boiling mud. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian's, were wiped away, forever buried under 60 feet of mud. A decade later, 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java. Dozens of factories, schools and mosques are completely submerged under a moonscape of ooze and grit. The cause? Lapindo, an Indonesian company drilling for natural gas in 2006, unleashed a violent, unstoppable flow of hot sludge from the earth's depths. It is estimated that the mudflow will not end for another decade. Shot over the course of six years, GRIT bears witness to Dian's transformation from young girl to a politically active teenager as she and her mother launch a resistance campaign against the drilling company.
The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an unusual crew to help him study the sea: renowned surfers Keith & Dan Malloy, musician Jack Johnson, spearfisher woman Kimi Werner, and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham become citizen scientists on a mission to assess the fate of plastics in the world’s oceans. After years of hearing about the famous “garbage patches” in the ocean’s gyres, the crew is stunned to learn that the patches are a myth: the waters stretching to the horizon are clear blue, with no islands of trash in sight. But as the crew sieves the water and sorts through their haul, a more disturbing reality sets in: a fog of microplastics permeates the world’s oceans, trillions of nearly invisible plastic shards making their way up the marine food chain. You can clean up a garbage patch, but how do you stop a fog?
When the Northern Rivers of NSW community found their home being threatened by gas field industrialization, a critical mass of citizens from all walks of life responded to the call.Told through the eyes of the "Protectors" over a five-year period and inter-cut with fresh insight from some of the world's leading social commentators, this feature documentary captures and celebrates what is described as the non-violent 'Eureka Stockade' of our time.
A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka
