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The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...

Bobby begins his journey in Lima exploring some of the plentiful produce on offer. With the help of local Chefs and Restaurateurs, Bobby learns how the discovery of the Americas transformed the kitchens of the world and how in turn the Spanish influenced the Peruvian palette.

In this Emmy-nominated documentary, Bill Moyers tells the remarkable history of Chinese Americans, from the first wave of immigration in the 1850s to the present day. Through personal narratives and interviews with historians, Moyers recounts how they ventured, suffered, endured, and eventually prevailed. "Tales of heartbreak, horror, and heroism."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her 25-year career as a documentary cinematographer. "Johnson so poetically expresses the emotional costs of documentary work..."--The Washington Post "***1/2…Highly recommended."--Video...

David Geffen is an agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and a philanthropist. Notoriously press and camera shy, Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this two-hour documentary.

Dowsing is a type of divination used to locate ground water, buried metals and ores, gemstones, oil, and the currents of earth radiation. Expert dowsers demonstrate their skills and describe their experiences.

The film shows how the global pesticide industry is politically powerful, shaping regulations (or lack thereof) and the conditions of food and farming around the world. Yet for every victim of the industry there are even more people fighting for their rights to safety and health and creating alternatives to the agrochemical industrial complex.

Hundreds of communities in the Tierra Caliente de Guerrero, Mexico have been displaced by organized crime that wants to control territory to traffic drugs and exploit the natural resources. Refugees in a strange city, children reveal the humanitarian crisis of forced displacement and the consequences of relocation and violence in their lives.

This hilarious and poignant documentary explores the positive effects of the intense bond between dogs and humans, as told through the story of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum and her dog Chelsea. As seen on HBO.

In North Lake, Canada, Local fishermen swear the spectacular Atlantic bluefin tuna are so plentiful they eat out of people's hands. Meanwhile, scientific evidence shows the species is on the brink of collapse. Can both claims be true?