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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS!
Over the last 50 years, Bullfrog Films has become the leading US publisher of independently-produced documentaries on environmental and related social justice issues that point the way to living healthily, happily, and with greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our descendants.
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With more possibilities for delivery and a changing customer base, Bullfrog Films has created a new online cart to meet the different needs of our customers!
Besides DVD sales and rentals, we now offer a DSL option. We've included easy access to Docuseek for educational streaming, and Bullfrog Communities for community screenings.
We've also adjusted our prices to match your institution or group and made it easier to order with a pull down menu. Check out our reduced prices for community colleges, public libraries and community groups.
Hop on over to one of our title pages! Our newest releases are on the right. More new releases are on our NEW RELEASES page, or browse titles by SUBJECTS.
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POWER TO HEAL: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
The untold story of how the twin struggles for racial justice and healthcare intersected: creating Medicare and desegregating thousands of hospitals at the same time.
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THE TRUE COST
Groundbreaking investigation of fast fashion reveals that while the price of clothing has been decreasing for decades the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.
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AMA
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
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THE PROVIDERS
Three healthcare providers bring care to a rural American community, showing the transformative power of providers' relationships with marginalized patients.
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JOHN LEWIS: Get In The Way
The first major documentary biography of civil rights hero, congressional leader and champion for human rights, whose unwavering fight for justice spanned over fifty years.
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COOKED: Survival by Zip Code
Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of "disaster" by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.
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THE THIRD HARMONY: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
Tells the story of nonviolence, the greatest overlooked resource in human experience. |
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A WITCH STORY
Deconstructs the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in order to reveal their connection to contemporary witch hunts and examine women's struggles through a feminist lens.
CITIZEN GEORGE
Presents the life and work of 86-year-old Quaker activist George Lakey, a non-violent revolutionary who has worked his entire life for justice and peace.
WALKING THE CUBAN TIGHTROPE
Centered on the legacy of Cuba's national hero, poet José Martí, this film goes to the heart of the Cuban people's enduring struggles for freedom and dignity.
PROJECT Q: War, Peace, and Quantum Mechanics
Investigates the geopolitical and societal implications of quantum innovation in computing, communications and artificial intelligence.
WATER FOR LIFE
Explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders. The right to clean water is a global issue—in Latin America it has become a matter of life and death.
A RISING TIDE
An in-depth look at the impacts of homelessness on Black children and their families.
VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR - Turning the Tide on Vaccine Hesitancy
Examines the consequences of vaccine hesitancy and denial.
WHERE CAN WE LIVE IN PEACE? The Migrant Crisis
The moving and inspirational story of the ABBA migrant shelter in Celaya, Mexico, where Pastor Ignacio helps thousands of migrants.
CORAL GARDENERS: Regrowing Reefs in the Maldives
Follows a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income.
SINGLE-USE PLANET
A search for the true headwaters of plastic entering the ocean finds more than it bargained for.
WRITTEN ON THE LANDSCAPE: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon
The Ancestral Puebloan culture's complex astronomy reveals a legacy of scientific observation and a spiritual tradition, with its powerful impact on the American Southwest.
FIXING FOOD 2
Looks at changes being made to the ways we produce and consume our food: inventing an entirely new way of producing food, learning from Indigenous food sources, and reimagining agriculture.
BREAD BIKE
Sam, Matt and Mariah are three energetic young people on California's central coast, unfulfilled by what they studied in college, but, with a passion for dough...the bread kind!
URANIUM DERBY
A filmmaker discovers that her hometown of Ames, IA, was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project.
s-yéwyáw AWAKEN
Stories of hope and homecoming intersect as Indigenous multimedia changemakers learn and document the teachings of their Elders.
WROUGHT
What can the slimy, putrid, multi-species world of rot teach us about ourselves?
SAVING MINDS
Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after long struggles with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.
THE LINCOLN SCHOOL STORY
The 1954 fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and children.
BEYOND BEING SILENCED: Gyaa Isdlaa
The Haida Potlatch. Once forbidden. Not anymore...
ECOSOPHIA: Ecological Wisdom
Some of the wisest ecological minds come together for an honest appraisal of our civilization without greenwash.
THE OIL MACHINE
Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate catastrophe. Can we break our addiction?
BECOMING ANIMAL
A journey to Grand Teton NP with geophilosopher David Abram to explore how the written word and technology have affected how we see the more-than-human world.
DANCE ME TO THE END OF TIME
Documents the last four years of the filmmaker's life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theater director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fought breast cancer.
WORKS FOR ALL: Cincinnati's Co-op Economy
Since 2011 Co-op Cincy has been building an inspiring network of worker-owned cooperatives in Cincinnati to create a regional economy that works for all.
MEDDLE
Acclaimed Haida Manga artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, pushes the boundaries of the art world by challenging the divide between contemporary and so-called "Native Art".
REGENERATING LIFE
How to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after.
RUNNER
Examines Guor Mading Maker's difficult yet triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete.
WINDSHIPPED
Sail freight comes to the 21st Century.
THEY KEEP QUIET SO WE MAKE NOISE
Ride along with two activists from the Environmental Protection Agency of Kuala Langat, Malaysia, in search of illegal plastics recycling facilities.
A CRACK IN THE MOUNTAIN
Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby.
FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Mother Jones, a fiery orator and fearless organizer for workers' rights, known as "the protector of children," and "the miners' angel," in a riveting performance by Lee.
EVER GREEN
How a small organization mobilized their island community to protect forests, farmlands, and shorelines from development in order to preserve a healthy rural way of life.
ithaka
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this portrait of a father's fight to save his son.
STEWART UDALL: The Politics of Beauty
A biographical film about Stewart Udall, one of America's most effective environmentalists, told through the battles he fought as Interior Secretary defending America's wild beauty.
HORSESHOE CRAB MOON
Looks at the decline of horseshoe crabs and the crash of the red knot that depends on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance during migration, and suggests possible solutions.
AUGUST PACE: 1989-2019
30 years after the premiere of Merce Cunningham's August Pace, this film records the passing-on of an iconic work from the original performers to a new generation of dancers.
TRUTH TELLERS: Robert Shetterly's Odyssey to Defend Our Democratic Ideals
Chronicles the lives of Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes of Robert Shetterly, a long time activist and artist.
WELCOME TO COMMIE HIGH
In-depth exploration of Community High School in Ann Arbor, MI, one of the sole survivors from America's early 70s "free schools" movement, now a thriving public school.
TOWN DESTROYER
A high profile battle erupts over images of African American slaves and Native Americans in New Deal-era murals at a San Francisco high school.
FIXING FOOD
Our food has a huge carbon footprint. FIXING FOOD tells five stories of creative new ways to lower the cost.
ETERNAL HARVEST
More than 50 years after the US dropped billions of tons of explosives on Laos, 1/3 of the surface area is still contaminated by UXO which kills Laotians daily. This is a film about responsibility.
IN OUR OWN HANDS
Follows the extraordinary steps ordinary people are taking to help millions with chronic diseases find their way back to health.
GYAANGEE
Famed Haida artist Robert Davidson carves his latest monumental totem pole and gives a rare insight into the deeper meanings of North Coast Indigenous art works.
BROTHERS ON THE LINE
The extraordinary story of the Reuther brothers who challenged the automobile industry, and helped build the union movement that remade America.
PLEISTOCENE PARK
An eccentric Russian scientist's quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop.
REFLECTION: a walk with water
Filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks the length of the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for - what he discovers has everything to do with water.
BLOWBACK: The 9/11 Wars in Global Film
Using films about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples, BLOWBACK explores how movies shape our understanding of the wars that are fought in our name.
Alan Magee: art is not a solace
Portrait of brilliant artist Alan Magee who dares to explore the darker aspects of human nature and behavior while also celebrating the beauty he finds in the natural world.
Frenemies: Cuba and the U.S. Embargo
Presents a balanced portrait of Cuban life today and a compelling argument for why the US should lift the devastating 60-year embargo.
Meat the Future
Follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat.
Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness
AWARE explores boundary-pushing research in the understanding of consciousness.
Thirst for Justice
Focuses on three battles for clean water—on the Navajo Reservation, in Flint MI, and at Standing Rock—united in the belief that Water Is Life.
Unguarded
UNGUARDED takes us inside the walls of APAC, the revolutionary Brazilian prison system centered on the full recovery and rehabilitation of the person.
The Dirty War on the National Health Service
John Pilger reveals how privatization has gradually infected the UK's NHS, threatening the world's first universal public health service and the exemplary values of its constitution.
A Reckoning in Boston
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?
The Boys Who Said NO! Draft Resistance and The Vietnam War
Inspired by Black America's crusade for equal rights, young Americans choose to resist the Vietnam War, and openly refuse military service, risking prison to end the horrors of war.
Into The Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2-DVD set features intimate, provocative stories of men and women forever changed by their encounters with mortality.
A Crime on the Bayou
Two young men—Gary Duncan, an unjustly arrested Black man and Richard Sobol, his Jewish attorney—take Duncan's case to the Supreme Court to fight for the right of all Americans to a fair trial.
Crutch
Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.
Blind Trust: Leaders & Followers in Times of Crisis
Examines the lifetime work of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkan, a psychiatrist who brings enemy groups together for dialogue in traumatized areas of the globe.
Meltdown In Dixie
In Orangeburg, SC, a battle erupts between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot.
Nature's Cleanup Crew
Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.
The Shadow of Gold
An unflinching look at how the world's favorite heavy metal is extracted from the earth.
The Emoji Story
Explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world's newest pictorial language.
The Divided Brain
Explores Iain McGilchrist's pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture.
Entangled
How climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, N. America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
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