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"Happy Collaborator: George Stoney" (55 minutes)

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Stoney (on July 1), we present "Happy Collaborator: George Stoney."  This poignant documentary by Mike Hazard portrays the late George Stoney as a filmmaker, teacher of film, and media activist. He is widely known as "the father of public access TV."

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"We Are Not Strangers To This Land: Untold Stories of DREAMERS" (26 minutes)

The documentary "We Are Not Strangers To This Land: Untold Stories of DREAMERS" was filmed and produced by immigrant rights activists who are part of Alianza, a coalition at Sacramento City College. This impactful documentary shares the stories of local Dreamers in order to humanize the ongoing struggle of navigating their lives in the United States while undocumented.

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"Wild Versus Wall" (19 minutes)

The Sierra Club border film, Wild Versus Wall, details the unique and diverse natural areas along the southern borders of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and explains how they have been and will be affected by current and planned federal border policy and infrastructure, as well as the danger to our rights and safety imposed by sweeping new powers granted to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Catching Fire" (54 minutes)

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"The Story of Bottled Water" (8 minutes)

The story of manufactured demand -- how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. This film explores the bottled water industry's attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.

"Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights" (21.5 minutes)

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"Green World Rising" (10 minutes)

Green World Rising is the 3rd film in the Green World Rising series. The film shows how we can be 100% off fossil fuels in a few decades. 

Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners and produced by George DiCaprio, Mathew Schmid, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled. 

Created by Tree Media with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.

"Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum" (1 hour, 46 minutes)

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"Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice" (14 minutes)

In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City's