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- Back to the Soil - A young Korean couple leaves the city to become farmers. They struggle to survive economically from the land, while trying to balance their political activism and family life.
- Banana Company
- Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow - Traveling along the cross-Andes route of an oil pipeline in Ecuador, a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World.
- Black Water - Industrial pollution in a small Brazilian fishing village.
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- The Commodities Series - A seven-part look at Third World commodities and their producers' relationships to sellers and traders at major exchanges.
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- Dam/Age - Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.
- A Day Without Sunshine - A penetrating look at the Florida citrus industry and the workers who harvest its fruit.
- Depending On Heaven: The Desert - Examines the role of people in the desert ecosystem of Inner Mongolia.
- Depending On Heaven: The Grasslands - Examines the effect of humans on the grasslands ecosystem of Inner Mongolia.
- The Dreamers of Arnhem Land - The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise.
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- Land Affairs - Racial tensions in rural South Africa, where black farmers displaced during apartheid are reclaiming land now "owned" by whites.
- Lula's Brazil - A snapshot of Brazil at the midway point in Luis Inacio da Silva's presidential term, and an examination of his failures and successes within the context of the election promises he made during his candidacy.
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- Our Daily Bread - A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
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- The Price of Aid - An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
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- Red Persimmons - A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.
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- Seeds of Revolution - Looks at how the Honduran banana trade - dominated by U.S. corporations - has flourished while poverty and malnutrition plague the majority of Hondurans.
- Still, The Children Are Here - A portrait of the Garo people of India, for whom cultivating rice is a way of life and worship, this film not only describes an indigenous culture, but the essential nature of humanity. Produced by Mira Nair.
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- The Tooth of the Times - A personal study of the impact the government's decision to end agricultural subsidies had on South African farmers.
- Tree Of Survival - Although the drought and starvation suffered by the people on the borders of the Sahara no longer make headlines, the ever-encroaching dunes refuse to go away.
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- A Visit to Ogawa Productions - Nagisa Oshima - the 'New Wave' Japanese director - visits the filmmaking collective led by Shinsuke Ogawa, to discuss the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives.
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