Forests

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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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Each episode in the 4 part PBS series explores archaeological sites on the American frontier and uses the clues from the past to tell the secret history of America. From exploring the mystery of the the massive Native American city of Cahokia, scuba diving for clues to Revolutionary War naval battles on the Great Lakes, exploring the Civil War battlefields of Missouri: join series host Dr Monty Dobson for the archaeological adventure of a lifetime.

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The four-part public television series Standing on Sacred Ground tells eight compelling stories of indigenous people around the world resisting the destruction of their culture and sacred lands. 

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In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this hour-long radio documentary will portray experiences of volunteers from every decade, in every region, using audio they recorded while serving. The archive recordings from the field will be complemented by contemporary interviews with the returned Peace Corps volunteers and with historians who've written about the Peace Corps.    

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The Terrors of Basket Weaving is a short film thriller about a woman who becomes possessed after discovering a basket near her beach home.  Based on a short story by Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley.  

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Sun Come Up is a character-driven documentary that follows the relocation of some of the world’s first climate change refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a matrilineal society of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

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The documentary film Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators presents the engaging story of scientists now discovering the great carnivores as revitalizing forces of nature, and a society now learning tolerance for the beasts they had once banished. Green Fire is partnering with conservation organizations to distribute the film to build public and policy-maker support for ecologically effective populations of wildlife.  

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"Cobell v." is a feature length documentary about one woman's fight for justice for 500,000 Native Americans who own mineral rich land that has been mismanaged by the US government for over a century.