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A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
Content Project
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.”  
The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Content Project
From the producers of 'The End of the Line', 'The Flaw' and 'The War Don't See', 'The Greatest Story Ever Sold' is a feature documentary revealing the nuclear industry's 5-decade campaign to sell atomic energy to an unwitting public. Using a combination of compelling personal stories, expert testimony and often blackly comic archive material, the film will delve behind the spin to discover the true costs of nuclear power in the UK, US, Europe and beyond, as well as showing how there IS another way to power all our futures.


How Washington Really Works: The Life and Times of Charlie Peters
Content Project
The film simultaneously looks at the career of Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters, as well as examining the transformation of American journalism, and corporate monopolization of the media.
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Always in Season
Content Project
With film and virtual reality, Always in Season takes an integrated transmedia approach to telling the story of the lingering impact of almost a century of lynching African Americans until the mid-1960s.  Our documentary feature highlights the emotional journeys of relatives of the victims, perpetrators and spectators who are turning harm to hope with grassroots efforts towards reconciliation and restorative justice, and our virtual world locale, Always in Season Island, extends the film’s message by giving audiences an experiential look at the social climate that made this form of racial terrorism possible.
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Peace Corps Voices
Content Project
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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Lost Sparrow
Content Project
The documentary LOST SPARROW is the culmination of filmmaker Chris Billing's two-year investigation into the tragic deaths of his two adopted Crow Indian brothers, Bobby and Tyler. The two boys were struck and killed by a freight train on June 27, 1978.
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Brothers On The Line
Content Project

Brothers On The Line is a documentary feature exploring the legacy of the Reuther brothers, pioneering labor organizers whose leadership of the United Auto Workers (UAW) transformed the social, economic, and political landscape of a nation.

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ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss
Content Project
ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss is a documentary film about an artist, architect, and designer who has been an exponent of Modernism devoting her life to the creation of art that explores the fascinating intersections of art, nature, science, mathematics, and technology. The film explores the range of her work from architectural commissions to painterly and digitally-based studies of color and light, and Utah-based public art commissions that tell stories of the human condition.
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Becoming Helen Keller
Content Project
Becoming Helen Keller, a 90 minute documentary biography for American Masters, will explore the long life and legacy of this global media celebrity and advocate for the disabled and disenfranchised.This project is a co-production of Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., American Masters-WNET-Thirteen, and WETA-Washington DC.
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What's "Organic" About Organic? -- Documentary and Outreach Project
Content Project
Through the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, WHAT'S "ORGANIC" ABOUT ORGANIC? offers the audience a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.  The film provides insight for certification systems taking root across our society, showing the pitfalls that can arise when idealism is formalized into a label.
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