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Edible City: Grow the Revolution

Edible City: Grow the Revolution Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Introducing a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters...

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Get On Board the Mystical Brain

Get On Board the Mystical BrainThis documentary, The Mystical Brain, reveals the exploratory work of a team from the University of Montreal who seek to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate.

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Preserving Life: Dance of the Honey Bee

Preserving Life: Dance of the Honey BeeBill Moyers introduces and Bill McKibben narrates this short documentary looking at the determined, beautiful and vital role honey bees play in preserving life.

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Paul Ryan's Budget: Part of The Shock Doctrine?

milton friedmanIs Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget part of an American Shock Doctrine? Watch this documentary adaptation of Naomi Klein's 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine -- An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein's proposition that free market theorists use national emergencies to further their cause. .

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Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Their Peak Oil Crisis

cuban farmerAs oil use declines in agriculture, Cuba leads in producing food locally. The Power Of Community tells the story of how Cuba made the remarkable transition to organic farming and urban gardens from an oil dependent agricultural system when it's oil supplier the Soviet Union fell in 1990.

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This Way of Life

A New Zealand family struggles valiantly to live a simple life.

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American Drug War

The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such the failure that it is.

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Under Our Skin

Exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how our corrupt health care system is failing to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

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The End of Poverty?

Renowned actor and activist, Martin Sheen, narrates The End of Poverty?, a feature-length documentary directed by award-winning director, Philippe Diaz.

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How To Cook Your Life

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

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Fighting in the Fifth Dimension

Innovations in technology are changing the tactics of modern-day conflict, turning the cyberworld into a new frontline. It has been called the 'fifth dimension of warfare'. Along with land, sea, air and space - the cyberworld is increasingly becoming a new frontline.

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The Koch Brothers

The Koch Brothers:People & Power asks if the tycoon duo's fortune could put the radical right into the White House. By People & Power reporter Bob Abeshouse. In this documentary explores how The Koch brothers fueled the conservative Tea Party movement that vigorously opposes Barack Obama, the US president.

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Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead

Focusing on two men whose bodies have been trashed by steroids, obesity and illness, this documentary chronicles the rigorous healing path -- including a two-month diet of fruits and vegetables -- that both attempt in a bid to rescue their health.

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Wal Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price

The High Cost Of Low Price is a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail giant's assault on families and American values. The film dives into the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to fight a Goliath.

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Meltdown

Meltdown Stock ExchangeMeltdown is a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world. Beginning with the 2008 crash that pushed 30 million people into unemployment, brought countries to the edge of insolvency and turned the clock back to 1929, it moves on to examine the epidemic of fear that caused the world's banks to stop lending and how the people began their fight back. Finally, it asks how the world can prepare for the next crisis even as it recognises that this one is far from over.

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Slavery A 21st Century Evil

Slavery Lincoln MemorialToday, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his investigation exposes the brutal reality of modern slavery.

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