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The Age of Aluminum [Die Akte Aluminium]
This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.
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Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining
This film follows resistance to mining companies and the Peruvian government by local residents, focusing on the small town of Tambogrande.
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Vienen Por El Oro, Vienen Por Todo [They Came For The Gold, They Came For It All]
This film follows an Argentinian town which must struggle to decide whether to allow a gold mine that could reduce poverty but also uses toxic mining methods.
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China Blue
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
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The Devil Operation
This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.
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Katanga Business
This film examines a mine that acts as a microcosm for globalization; illegal and legal workers, local and foreign businessmen, and politicians all navigate the new alliances that modern Africa demands.
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Genetic Chile
This film uses the New Mexico chile pepper to investigate genetically modified foods and criticizes the practices of the companies involved.
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Dirty Energy
This film investigates the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on Lousiana communities, and criticizes the relationship between British Petroleum and the U.S. government.
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Canned Dreams
This award-winning film examines the experience of ordinary workers as it tracks a canned food product on its journey across the world.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.