If you'd like to borrow a film from us to watch or screen in your own neighborhood, let us know the name of the film and the date you'd like it by and we can arrange a place for you to pick it up. All of our films are available for Free. As a non-profit project, this is one of the services we provide the Lawrence, KS community. Eventually we'll have an in-store location in Lawrence, KS for you to browse, check out, and return the films. Until then just send us a message through the Contact page to request anything. If you're looking to buy the film yourself click the website link associated with the film. Thanks!
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Democratic Schools
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At democratic schools pupils themselves can decide, what and how they want to learn. There are no curricula, no censorship, and examinations are voluntary. Pupils and teachers have the same rights and organize their schools together. Everyone has a voice with decisions. Can that be done well? In 35 minutes this film shows that it can.
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Advertising & The End of the World
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Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Advertising and the End of the World asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim - happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? Can we think long-term as well as short-term? Drawing the connection between society's high-consumption lifestyle and the coming environmental crisis, Advertising & the End of the World forces us to evaluate the physical and material costs of the consumer society and how long we can maintain our present level of production.
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Gimme Green
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Lawns are undeniably an American symbol. But what do they really symbolize? Pride and prosperity? Or waste and conformity?
Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life. It's estimated that Americans use approximately 50 percent of their household water on their yards. By examining the social, commercial, and environmental pressures surrounding the green grass aesthetic, we begin to understand how a non-edible, resource-intensive plant could become our nation's largest irrigated crop. Spanning a wide range of perspectives and locales, and employing an engaging blend of gravity and levity, this documentary short examines Americans' true motives for maintaining a lush green lawn in their yards.
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A Passion for Sustainability
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Envision a society where economic opportunity, social justice and sustainable culture all spring from environmental stewardship. Imagine a world where nurturing the health of the planet is the catalyst for global financial success and social stability. Can you? -- Ten years ago, fourteen business owners in Portland, Oregon did just that. Using a sustainability tool called The Natural Step, these fourteen business owners looked at their business plans through the lens of environmental sustainability and began the journey to create businesses that would be responsible for Earth's natural systems while building economic growth. Join these inspiring pioneers as they describe the journeys they have taken, the challenges and unexpected rewards they have experienced and their ultimate vision of a sustainable world.
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Black Gold: A film about Coffee and Trade
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As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
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Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
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Uncounted is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity across the U.S.
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Fed Up: Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture And Sustainable Alternatives
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Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials, and activists, Fed Up! presents an entertaining, informative, and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it.
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Peak Oil: Richard Heinberg in Grass Valley, CA
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A video presentation of Richard Heinberg's riveting talk in Grass Valley, CA, on Nov.15, 2005. Heinberg discusses recent evidence of the timing of the global production peak of petroleum, its likely consequences, and what can be done at both the international and local levels to prepare for this time and mitigate the impacts. The video includes Heinberg's slide presentation and a question and answer session, for 95 minutes total time.
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Kilowatt Ours
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Kilowatt Ours is an inspirational and enlivening film that demonstrates how easy it is to conserve energy that is produced from traditional sources as well as the many ways the average consumer can easily become part of the renewable energy revolution. The film reveals the connection between personal choices and energy use and introduces us to individuals, businesses, schools and universities who have cut their energy use in half by taking simple steps that benefit the consumer, the environment and the economy.
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The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America
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"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money..."
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How to Save the World
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What does an environmentally friendly biodynamic food system capable of feeding everyone actually look like?
Across India marginal farmers are reviving an arcane form of agriculture and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations and their failed mantra of infinite growth in a finite world. HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi. A blueprint for a post-industrial future, How to Save the World takes you into the heart of the world's most important renaissance. The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.
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A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
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A Convenient Truth is an informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can be applied in most cities around the world.
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Architecture to Zucchini: The people, companies and organizations pioneering sustainability
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"Architecture to Zucchini" is an exploration of socially responsible businesses and the passionate leaders who drive them. These are the pioneers who have put the principles of sustainability to work. In the process, they've built thriving companies and sparked regional economic development. It also features insights of nationally recognized leaders of organizations that focus on sustainability — those who serve industry, education, communities and government. Through interviews and tours in 12 case studies (viewed individually) these innovators reveal the impact of merging economic, social and environmental considerations in their business plans and operations.
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The Power of Community
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.
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Orwell Rolls In His Grave
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"Orwell Rolls Over In His Grave" expresses ideas that will never be heard in mainstream media. It is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, director Robert Kane Pappas explores what the media doesn't like to talk about: itself. (This film provides the quintessential synopsis for why websites like ours is needed. Look for a theater screening of this in Lawrence 2008)
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An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning
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If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Inconvenient Truth, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at Al Gore's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
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What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy
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Produced by Frank Dorrel, this 2 hour video compilation is an excellent and invaluable educational tool that reveals the true nature of U.S. foreign policy. It's been seen in many classrooms, churches, home screenings, on cable TV and shown by many Peace and Justice organizations. The film features: » Martin Luther King Jr. » John Stockwell, Ex-CIA Station Chief » Philip Agee, former CIA agent » Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair » School of Assassins » Genocide by Sanctions » Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now » The Panama Deception » Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General » S. Brian Wilson, Vietnam Veteran for Peace.
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America: from Freedom to Fascism
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Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo set out on a journey to find the evidence. The film exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with U.S. Congressmen, former IRS and FBI agents and tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card, showing that America is moving towards a fascist police state.
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Loose Change: Final Cut
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Loose Change Final Cut is the third and final release of this documentary series. It is substantially different from Loose Change and Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut in the way it presents the information surrounding 9/11/2001. However, it remains true to the spirit that has made Loose Change what it is today. Trying to accomplish the fairest documentary possible, the directors interviewed dozens of professionals who both agree and disagree with the official version of events of that day. Loose Change Final Cut is our best effort to tell the story of what happened surrounding 9/11/2001 and expose the events in need of investigation.
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Earthlings
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EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. Heads up: contains some graphic imagery of the day-today reality for many animals.
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
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Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, the film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. A mammoth two-part project, the film is nonetheless light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defense.”
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OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
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Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
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9/11 Revisited
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Dry, factual, and overwhelming scientific evidence favoring support for the controlled demolition theory of WTC buildings 1,2 & 7. It won't win any awards for entertainment factor, but if you like your facts hard and your evidence scientifically vigorous, you can't go wrong here. As long as you're open-minded (a pre-requisite for any good scientific and citizen's mind) even the most die-hard skeptic will be hard pressed to not have some burning questions by films end.
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9/11: Press For Truth
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Best introduction to 9/11 truth, featuring five of the most prominent members of the Family Steering Committee, including three of the 'Jersey Girls', who tell their story for the first time, providing the most powerful argument yet for why 9/11 still needs investigation.
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Why We Fight
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Inspired by Dwight Eisenhowers legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase military industrial complex), filmmaker Eugene Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a half-centurys military adventures, asking how and telling why a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why - why does America fight? What are the forces political, economic, ideological that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?
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