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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 3:58pm
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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.

"An Evening With Naomi Tutu" (46.5 minutes)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 4:01pm
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"The Fragile Promise of Choice" (57.5 minutes)

Through vignettes from cities and rural areas around the country, this documentary examines how restrictive legislation, in an atmosphere of harassment and violence, affects the lives of abortion providers and the women who seek their services. The film features interviews with community doctors, women seeking services, clinic directors, clergy, and counselors. Their stories illustrate the increasing number of situations in which legal does not necessarily mean accessible.

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/05/2014 - 4:03pm
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"Seeds of Freedom" (28 minutes)

This film, narrated by Jeremy Irons, details how seeds, which have been the heart of traditional farming and natural biodiversity since the beginning of agriculture, are being transformed into an expensive, patented commodity used to monopolize the global food system.

"The 800 Mile Wall" (89 minutes)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/19/2014 - 12:32pm
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"The United States of ALEC" (41 minutes)

Bill Moyers' report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a “nonpartisan public-private partnership”. But behind that mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.



"A Really Inconvenient Truth" (75 minutes)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Thu, 03/20/2014 - 10:36am
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"Over Troubled Waters" (45 minutes)

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley, Jr. narrates the story of the battle being fought by the people of the Delta to protect the region they love and encourage saner water policies for all of the people of California.

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Thu, 04/17/2014 - 12:03pm
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"From Danger to Dignity" (55 minutes)

After more than a century of back-alley tragedies, a national movement to decriminalize abortion took root. FROM DANGER to DIGNITY combines rare archival footage with present-day interviews to weave together two parallel stories: the evolution of underground networks to help women find safe abortions outside the law and the intensive efforts of activists and legislators who broke the silence and changed the laws.

"SHADA"

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