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![Cities](../photos/citiesimage.jpg) | | Cities ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work? | |
![The City Dark](../photos/citydimage.jpg) | | The City Dark ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars. | |
![Company Town](../photos/ctownimage.jpg) | | Company Town ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future. | |
![Crips and Bloods: Made in America](../photos/cripsimage.jpg) | | Crips and Bloods: Made in America ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA. | |
![Detropia](../photos/detroimage.jpg) | | Detropia ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system. | |
![Edens Lost and Found](../photos/ednsimage.jpg) | | Edens Lost and Found ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) 4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities. | |
![The Human Scale](../photos/huscimage.jpg) | | The Human Scale ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Influential Danish architect Jan Gehl argues that we can build cities in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. | |
![The New Metropolis](../photos/nmimage.jpg) | | The New Metropolis ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline. | |
![Racing To Zero](../photos/rtzimage.jpg) | | Racing To Zero ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Follows San Francisco's innovative efforts towards achieving zero waste, thereby dramatically reducing the city's carbon footprint. | |
![A Reckoning in Boston](../photos/reckimage.jpg) | | A Reckoning in Boston ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide? | |
![Stay or Go?](../photos/ffsgimage.jpg) | | Stay or Go? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities? | |
![The Suzuki Diaries: Future City](../photos/suzdfcimage.jpg) | | The Suzuki Diaries: Future City ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) David and Sarika Suzuki explore urban innovations leading toward sustainability.
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![Tokyo Waka](../photos/twakaimage.jpg) | | Tokyo Waka ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A poem about a city, its people, and 20,000 crows. | |
![Truck Farm](../photos/tfarmimage.jpg) | | Truck Farm ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming. | |
![The Water Front](../photos/waterimage.jpg) | | The Water Front ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager with quasi dictatorial authority sees water privatization as key to economic recovery. | |
![We Are Not Ghosts](../photos/wangimage.jpg) | | We Are Not Ghosts ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world. | |
![Weather Gone Wild](../photos/wgwimage.jpg) | | Weather Gone Wild ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) From floating neighborhoods to massive harbor floodgates, cities around the world are engineering ways to cope with extreme weather events. | |
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Aboriginal Architecture ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Ageing with Community ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The search for community and independence as we grow old.
The Air We Breathe ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Connects asthma and other respiratory diseases with air pollution and suburban sprawl.
Argentina: Hope in Hard Times ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.
Argentina: Turning Around ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
Arid Lands ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.
Backfired ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.
The Barcelona Blueprint ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Barcelona today is a model of urban planning that may prove sustainable.
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Lynden B. Miller explores the life and work of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand.
Beyond Organic ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A model of community supported agriculture in the midst of suburban sprawl.
Big or Small? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) What's the best method of growing food for a hungry population of 9.5 billion people: Big, or small?
Biker Boys of the Dirt Island ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Nairobi's Korogocho slum, a group of former thieves trying to go straight now provide an informal motorcycle taxi service.
Blue Vinyl ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
Blue Vinyl (Short Version) ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
The Boundaries of Change ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Cities cope with changing demographics.
Brothers On The Line ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The extraordinary story of the Reuther brothers who challenged the automobile industry, and helped build the union movement that remade America.
Build Green ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) David Suzuki reports on a wide range of green buildings, from large community developments to mini-homes.
Chávez Ravine ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Circuit Earth ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Shot throughout Philadelphia during the first Earth Week in 1970, the film features community groups, citizens and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet.
Cities ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work?
The City Dark ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars.
City Life ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) 22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.
City Life ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.
Collision Course ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.
Come Hell or High Water ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled.
Community - Planet Neighborhood ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Community regeneration, energy-efficient design, and waste water treatment.
Community by Design ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Good design of houses and neighborhoods builds community.
Company Town ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of "disaster" by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.
A Crack in the Pavement ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) 2-part series on how greening school grounds improves not only the school, but the surrounding community.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA.
Cultivating Change ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue to social change.
Designing A Great Neighborhood ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A model co-housing project, where future residents participate in the design of their own neighborhood.
Detropia ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
Digging In ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Jesse Ketchum School greens their schoolyard.
Doing the Right Thing ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.
Edens Lost and Found ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) 4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities.
Edens Lost and Found - Chicago ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Edens Lost and Found - Los Angeles ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Is it possible that the City of the Angels can be a model for the world of environmental rebirth?
Edens Lost and Found - Philadelphia ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Faced with severe budget limitations, Philadelphia's rebirth is being brought about by a network of community-based volunteer organizations.
Edens Lost and Found - Seattle ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Recognizing that the human community is growing faster than the aging infrastructure, the city of Seattle created an Office of Sustainability and Environment.
Fat or Skinny? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.
A Fistful of Rice ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
For Richer, For Poorer ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Brazil the gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world.
From Docklands to Dhaka ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) English MD travels to Bangladesh to improve community health.
Future Food ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) With 9 billion people on planet Earth in the year 2050, this 6-part series examines how we will feed ourselves in the 21st century.
Game Over ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.
God Among the Children ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Community organization works with at-risk youth in Boston.
The Golf War ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Globalization comes to a Philippine seaside community, which has to defend its ancestral lands against golf course development.
Good Food ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest.
The Greening of Southie ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible.
Growing Dreams ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An inspirational overview of school ground greening.
Growing Season ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Horticulture dramatically improves prisoners' attitudes.
The Hand That Feeds ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.
Helping Ourselves! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.
Holy Smoke ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Buddhist monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia.
How Green Is My Valley? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.
The Human Scale ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Influential Danish architect Jan Gehl argues that we can build cities in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.
I.M. PEI ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Architect I.M. Pei returns to his home city of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum that complements the architecture of the 2,500 year-old city and sets a course for modern Chinese architecture.
In The Wake of War ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A burgeoning grassroots peace movement in Burundi is aimed at ending civil war between Tutsis and Hutus.
Islas Hermanas ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Ometepe, Nicaragua, and Bainbridge Island near Seattle work together for a better life for both communities.
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It Takes a Village ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A cyclone in Bangladesh results in the construction of an experimental community health center.
Kabul Transit ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A street-level documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated by nearly three decades of war.
Kosovo: Rebuilding the Dream ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Assesses the success of UN efforts in rebuilding Kosovo.
Life 8 ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A new 16-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face.
Lines in the Dust ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
Livable Landscapes ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) How growth and sprawl affect the quality of life in New England, and some possible solutions.
The Long March ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
A Lot in Common (Short Version) ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
A Lot in Common ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
Making Shelter ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Co-ops and co-housing provide new models for building community.
Maps with Teeth ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Bioregional mapping by locals communicates a sense of place and regional identity.
Milking the Rhino ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
My Hanoi ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.
My Mother Built This House ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.
Nature's Cleanup Crew ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.
Near or Far? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The Nigerian Minister for Agriculture wants to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria.
The New Metropolis ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline.
The Next Industrial Revolution ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
No Umbrella ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) An unblinking look at the 2004 US Election Day failures in one of Ohio's poorest neighborhoods.
Nottingham Lace ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) With unemployment figures rising across Europe, is there still a place for the niche craft skills of Cluny Lace in the U.K.'s East Midlands?
Old or New? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Lima, Peru, a new generation of top chefs are cooking with traditional ingredients and supporting traditional livelihoods.
On the Road ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) RV owners leave their home towns and build their own communities.
Once Was Water ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.
The Other Side ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives.
Pavements of Gold ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Increase in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.
Poison in the Rockies ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Threats to water quality in the Colorado Rockies.
Racing To Zero ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Follows San Francisco's innovative efforts towards achieving zero waste, thereby dramatically reducing the city's carbon footprint.
Reaching Out to the Grassroots ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
The Real Leap Forward ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Reports on China's successful efforts to reduce poverty through sustainable development and targeted programs.
A Reckoning in Boston ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?
Reclaiming Community ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Communities in Toronto and Oakland take back and revitalize public spaces.
Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict with cultural realities in the Philippines, Latvia, Japan, and India.
ReInventing The World ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.
The Return of the Cuyahoga ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
Return to Srebrenica ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica struggle to heal their community and build a new future.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Classroom Version) ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Scent of the Streets ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Nigeria has had some success in getting more women into government and business. But what about in the crowded and often violent slums of Lagos?
School's Out! ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The private school option in a Lagos shantytown.
The Search for General Tso ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A quest to understand the origins of this ubiquitous, spicy red chicken dish and to explore the history of Chinese-American food.
Seeing is Believing ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Zambia begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.
Slum Futures ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The slums of Mumbai are an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world.
Stay or Go? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities?
Store Wars ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.
Street Fight ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Tells the gripping story of the race for mayor of Newark, N.J., where elections are won and lost in the streets.
Subdivide and Conquer ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.
Subdivide and Conquer (Short Version) ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Suburban sprawl -- causes and remedies.
The Suzuki Diaries: Future City ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) David and Sarika Suzuki explore urban innovations leading toward sustainability.
this black soil ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Together Against Violence ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.
Tokyo Waka ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A poem about a city, its people, and 20,000 crows.
Trees in Trouble ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The first film to document how a city responds to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.
Truck Farm ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Truck Farm - Short Version ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Valley at the Crossroads ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The battle over sprawl in California's Central Valley, where 50% of America's fruits, nuts, and vegetables are grown.
Virtually Intentional ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Finding community in the cloister, a commune, and in cyberspace.
The Wasting of a Wetland ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) The destruction of the Florida Everglades.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program One ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Communities solving their own water problems.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program Two ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Farmers and communities solving their own water problems.
The Water Front ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) In Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager with quasi dictatorial authority sees water privatization as key to economic recovery.
We Are Not Ghosts ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
Weather Gone Wild ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) From floating neighborhoods to massive harbor floodgates, cities around the world are engineering ways to cope with extreme weather events.
Weather Report ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) A report from the front lines of climate change in Kenya, India, Canada, the Arctic, China, and Montana where people's lives have already been dramatically altered.
Where Am I? ![View Trailer](../graphics/icon_trailer.gif) Why are some of us good at finding our way, while others are not? The latest findings in spatial cognition research have multiple implications including for urban planning and design.
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