Environment
by Various Filmmakers
Premiere: August 18, 2009
POV presents a one-hour collection of acclaimed documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
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by Nicholas Berger
Premiere: August 18, 2009
Immortalized in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the red is the island nation’s only native species of squirrel. But it is being driven to extinction by the invading greys. And so, a cross-section of English men and women has risen up to turn back “the grey menace” and save the reds. (18 minutes)
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by Eva Weber
Premiere: December 10, 2008
City of Cranes takes the viewer hundreds of feet above the ground to hear the insights of crane drivers, and see a glimpse of the poetic, mesmerizing world of cranes. (14 minutes)
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by Yung Chang
Premiere: October 8, 2008
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods.
by Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr
Premiere: August 28, 2007
In the small town of Libby, many hundreds are sick or have already died from exposure to asbestos, a notorious industrial toxin that many Americans consider long banned or under control.
by Eric Daniel Metzgar, Nell Carden Grey
Premiere: July 17, 2007
An extraordinary chronicle of two years in the life of Richard Ogust, whose life turns into strange territory as he shares his Manhattan loft with 1,200 turtles he is trying to save.
by Suree Towfighnia, Courtney Hermann
Premiere: July 3, 2007
In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes' fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense.
by Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre
Premiere: October 10, 2006
Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras just over the border in Tijuana, Mexico, where each day they confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos.
by Monteith McCollum
Premiere: July 11, 2006
"Your lawn is a reflection of your character," a woman says in a phone conversation at the beginning of the film. Lawn explores our relationship with nature and our desire to control it.