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Icelandic politicians and businesses try to lure aluminum production to the island country.

The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.

An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.

A documentary that declares the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth, and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas methane.

A Diane Sawyer special report on the 1/2 million people living in poverty in Central Appalachia.

Cinematic observational film about an environmentally protected salt flat exploited as a mine while the last native inhabitants watch from their run-down towns how the wealth is extracted from their ancestral lands.

A symphony of meat and fire, Barbecue shows us how an everyday ritual is shared by cultures around the world, as a way to celebrate community, friendship, and tradition. A film told in 13 languages, from Texas to the Syrian border, from 'Shisanyama' to 'Lechon', Barbecue is a film about the simple truths in life that bring people together, and how barbecue is a path to salvation.

In this short film of Cowan Court, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between architecture and landscape within which the students of Churchill College, University of Cambridge live and work.

From the earliest days of movie-making to the present day, through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing relationship the British have with their land. From images of local celebrations and festivals to agricultural practices through the seasons, village life and lost crafts.

An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.

The landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. It captures the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators and dynamite. 'Earth' observes people, in mines, quarries and large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.

Despite the building's imminent collapse, the last inhabitant of a once luxurious hotel refuses to leave: he remains convinced that treasures, hidden by the hotel's original owners, lie waiting within its walls.

Futuristic beings are conjured from an eerie smoke-filled landscape and the depths of the earth. This setting foretells a future subterranean world occupied by a species evolved from our environmentally challenged world.

Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.

A funny science series that offers an inside look into the lives of the planet's most intriguing animals, with narration provided by a cast of quirky animal creatures, as well as Mother Nature herself.

Iggy Pop narrates - in simple childlike verse - Nothing's weekend on Earth.

An experimental documentary about Terence McKenna's adventure into the Amazon basin and the ideas that sprang from those events, resulting in an eschatological theory of time and a lifetime spent contemplating the power and meaning of psychedelic substances.

Orange Sunshine is the never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love - a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in California, which became the largest suppliers of LSD during the 60's and 70's. This feature-length doc follows their rise to star-status in Psychedelic movement and the "bad trip" that followed.

A celebration of the spirit of life, an exploration of the Earth, and an ode to the Cosmos.

A statue of Venus with a human mind falls in love with a statue of David. Eros jealously controls the sculptor's mind to destroy her. Libera's songs and Tempei's piano lead the story in a poetic way. Libera play the Angels to comfort her.

Four people undergo plastic surgery. Their appearances will change, but will their lives?

A boundary-pushing exploration into harnessing sexual autonomy and empowerment in a 21st-century world.

Two sex workers navigate their complex relationship amid societal commodification of femininity. Their love faces challenges from differing life perspectives and personal struggles, questioning the possibility of lasting happiness.

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME is a borderlands Western that follows Sundog, an eccentric recluse who lives off the land in the Sonoran Desert. As Border Patrol surveillance encroaches on his relative freedom, he becomes increasingly unnerved and ventures beyond the confines of his survivalism. With an unsettling fantasy of eco-terrorism, and with the first cinematic depiction of smoking a Sonoran toad's psychedelic venom, the complex figure of Sundog raises provocative questions about environmental justice and human survival amidst the specter of global collapse.