Everyone deserves a good death. "Dying Is Not Giving Up" features conversations between Licensed Psychotherapist Kelly Grosklags and her patient, Judy Erdahl, who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Knowing that her time was nearing an end, Erdahl describes to Grosklags the very…
Director Mette Korsgaard considers herself a feminist and a gender equality advocate. She cannot understand why her husband, the high-profile journalist Niels, won't fight for women's rights, considering how many other issues he's willing to fight for. When their daughter Marie decides…
Return Flight chronicles the restoration of the bald eagle to the Channel Islands in the face of pervasive DDT contamination. For millennia, the bald eagle was an important avian predator in the Channel Islands just off the coast of Southern California. Then in the early 1960’s the bald eagles…
An Emmy-nominated documentary about the STRAW program (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed). In 1992, Laurette Rogers’ 4th grade class asked what they could do save endangered species. It was a simple question that would change their lives. Partnering with ranchers, scientists, and government…
Sands of War tells the forgotten story of the Desert Training Center — 18,000 square miles of rugged terrain in the Mojave Desert where a million soldiers came to train for battle in WWII. Founded by General George S. Patton in 1942, the DTC tested men and machines in a setting as close to real…
The seabirds on Anacapa Island were in significant decline due to predation by the non-native Black Rat. In order to restore balance to the Anacapa Island ecosystem, a group of non-profit, government, and educational organizations came together to remove these predators in 2001 and 2002. Ten years after…
Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests, and the Future reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high severity wildfires, while greenhouse gases released from these fires contribute to global warming. In this one-hour award-winning documentary,…
Dokumentation einer traumasensiblen Alpenüberquerung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen aus Pflegefamilien Eine Gruppe von Pflegekindern wandert zusammen mit einem Pflegevater und drei Pflegegeschwistern angeführt von einer professionellen Bergführerin in elf Etappen über die Alpen von…
Ein Dokumentarfilm über Schlaganfallbetroffene und ihre Angehörigen Der Film begleitet drei Schlaganfallbetroffene und ihre Angehörigen in ihrem neuen Alltag nach dem Schlaganfall. Im Zentrum stehen ihre Erfahrungsgeschichten: Wie haben sie den Schlaganfall erlebt und überlebt?…
Ein Film über Herkunftseltern von Kindern in Pflegefamilien „Herkunftsmutter, den Begriff mag ich nicht. Ich bin doch ihre Mutter“, sagt Jennifer (32). Herkunftseltern sind leibliche Eltern, deren Kind oder Kinder bei Pflegefamilien untergebracht sind. Gründe dafür können…
London, 1972 – the city is growing, and with it the need to house working populations. Post-war values of social welfare make experimenting with new forms of housing possible, ushering in an era of modernist, utopian projects. Among the most daring and innovative, Peter and Alison Smithson’s…
A car and a bus meet on the San Francisco-Mocoa highway, where the Andes mountains meet the Amazon jungle. But the main link between the two Colombian cities is barely a highway at all: as the bus advances, the car backs up, seeking a place wide enough for the vehicles to pass. The road's nickname…
