Designing Healthy Communities is the latest multimedia project from Media Policy Center. This multi-hour series for PBS focuses on how by improving the design of our built environment we can address many of the nation’s devastating childhood and adult health concerns.
A feature-length documentary film following three Nepalese as they embark on an epic search for their loved ones and others who were detained and "disappeared" during the decade-long civil war in Nepal.
The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School.
What is Philanthropy? explores the historical and current role philanthropy plays in American culture and society for the primary purpose of enhancing our understanding and inspiring our participation.
Two environmental films filled with hope: Tales of the San Joaquin Revision, the total success story of the contemporary restoration of the San Joaquin River after an eighteen-year lawsuit; and Tulare Lake, the prospects for restoring what was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi River.
Above the Arctic Circle, a poor indigenous village that is swiftly eroding due to global warming is short-listed as one of Alaska’s most endangered communities.
"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.
A Fierce Green Fire is a documentary which tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. The first overview of the environmental movement, the film spans five decades and brings together all the issues and causes.
The Iraqi Seed Project is a cross-platform educational resource and media project examining the long history of agriculture in Iraq and the legacy left to farmers in the region after years of war, sanctions and environmental neglect.
Six people, one city, our future. From front-porches to frontlines, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY captures the tumultuous reconstruction of a quintessential American city, New Orleans.