films

=films about education=

> > Billions in Change @http://billionsinchange.com/ > > Dirty Energy @http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/dirty_energy > __teaching with film copyright issues__

http://www.grinningplanet.com/videos-and-animations/pollution-water-air-land-general-videos.htm
 * online collection**

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=27326&CategoryID=497

waste oil drilling Fracking biofuels
 * topics**

renewable energies

coal films

 @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCbWPR7VK8  Oil and Ice: The Risks of Drilling in Alaska's Arctic Ocean

@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOpPnfW0lo  A Boom With No Boundaries: How Drilling Threatens Theodore Roosevelt National Park 

Druk White Lotus School (20 minuties)

 @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kj35AT_ONM PBS: School: The Story of American Public Education (Sage may own this??)

Free to Learn: An Experiment in Education (70 minutes) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/free-learn-radical-experiment-education/

Frontline -- Poor Kids (53 minutes) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids/

Frontline -- Middleschool Moment (15 minutes) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education/dropout-nation/middle-school-moment/

PROJECT BASED LEARNING http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education/fast-times-at-west-philly-high/what-is-project-based-learning/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/fast-times-at-west-philly-high/

++ EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Kora's story of the race lesson

TedTalk on school lunches http://www.ted.com/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches.html

__kids as eco-activists__

__* Louis Gibbs' program to get kids to become eco-activists in their schools__ http://chej.org/campaigns/cehp/projects/green-flags/

kid activism to green schools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhfIc8dMkn0

Hello, Here is the link to the video that I told you about after class today. @http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_hedonistic_sustainability.html

age of mammals (3 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApsCGttW2Us&list=SP37FA960FC8DA9259&index=5&feature=plpp_video Kids against KFC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQUcDt1dhE

Olivia Boulder Draws a Response to the BP Spill http://www.oliviabouler.net/artwork--book.html Video on Olivia Bouler: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQzDEpR1zxs Nice Overview: @http://www.aolartists.com/profiles/olivia-bouler/  Disney Friends for Change: @http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/

new films from DC film series


 * about sustainability and education**

Education for a Sustainable Future http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/education-sustainable-future/

Angela Halfacre, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Education, Furman University

http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/

**sites with short video collections**
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos.html

Planet Green - short films appropriate for high school students []

Green.tv - collection of films that promote eco-awareness; developed in partnership with the UNEP []

The Meatrix "Join Leo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one", Chickity, the feathered family farm defender, and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms." []

Eco Live TV - video library with informational content on a variety of sustainability issues []

short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFON5pPtx4 Indonesia's Palm Oil Dilemma http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1054675525001_2085061,00.html

__Chemical Revolution__
 * Danny Dolphin: Chemical Revolution (0:45) Very brief animated, overview of the chemical revolution
 * []
 * Impact of Chemicals on the Human Life (7:12)
 * []

[|UCAR: Steroids, Baseball and Climate Change]

Where does our garbage go? (about a garbage-to-fuel facility and project, put out by the company) (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPz5bJa9eOI  addicted to plastic ( @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggaMcmkguw )

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.6667px;">wasteland <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.6667px;">( @http://www.wastelandmovie.com/ )

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.6667px;">windfall <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.6667px;">( @http://windfallthemovie.com/index_1.html )

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.6667px;">revenge of the electric car ( @http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/ ) Off-shore drilling explained (2:57) Objective explanation appropriate for high schoolers []

60 Minutes on e-waste (12 minutes) (__[|http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1085302130525)]__

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyU4z672EZ0 same as above? Nate: It's really well done, the journalists actually start at a recycling facility in the United States, and then actually follow the shipping container to Guiyu, China. There, they are pushed around by the mayor for a bit, and then finally gain access to the real facilities where people are melting down the waste.

The Jevons Paradox (That increased technological efficiency in the use of a resource tends to <span class="style_2">increase (rather than decrease) the rate at which that resource is consumed). []

Water issues explained by elementary students []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #1155cc; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif;">@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuQKHtZsh3U

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-R5j0zKpw

long
Poison Fire, about the Niger Delta and Gas Flaring @http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/poison-fire/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TopDocumentaryFilms+%28Top+Documentary+Films+-+Watch+Free+Documentaries+Online%29 //Addicted to Plastic (Folsom) (Spring 2011 Film Series)//

//Affluenza (Folsom) (Sustainablity Debates)//

//Blind Spot (Vasudha) (Sustainability Problems)//

//Blue Gold: World Water Wars// (2008)

//Blue Vinyl: The World's First Toxic Comedy (Vasudha) (Toxic Politics)//

//Burning in the Sun (Folsom, Fall 2011 Film Series)//

//Burning the Future: Coal in America (Env & Politics)//

//A Civil Action//

China Revs Up

//The Corporation//

//Coal Country (Vasudha)//

//A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash (Vasudha)//

//Crude Impact (Vasudha)//

//Darwin's Nightmare (Folsom, available online)//

Debate among conservatives --Ronald Bailey, Lynne Kiesling & Fred L. Smith. Reason (July 2008). "Carbon: Tax, Trade or Deregulate? (Something is going to be "done" about global warming, so what should it be?)" __[]__

//Earth Days// (2010) (102 minutes) (Vasudha) (Sustainability Debates)

//Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course (Vasudha) (Env & Politics)//

//The End of Suburbia////: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (Folsom)//

//Erin Brockovich//

//**Flow:** How Did a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water?//

//Food Inc. (Folsom)//

//[|Frontline: Heat]//(available online)

//[|Frontline: Poisoned Waters]// (available online)

//[|Frontline: The Spill]//(available online)

//GasLand (2010) (Vasudha) (Env & Politics)//

//History Channel: Renewable Energy (2008) (50 minutes) (Vasudha) (Env & Politics)//

//History Channel: Environmental Technology (2008) (50 minutes)//

//Homo Toxicus (Folsom) (Toxic Politics)//

[|//Hungry for Profit//] (agribusiness and famine) //(85 minutes)//

//The Insider//

//Maquilapolis (68 minutes) (Sustainability Debates)//

//National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World (Vasudha) (Env & Politics)//

//National Geographic: Human Footprint (2008) (Vasudha)//

//Nature's Numbers - Assessing Species Extinction (Folsom)//

//[|Nuclear Nation] (about Fukushima and Japan)//

//The Unforseen//

//Toxic Sludge is Good for You//

//Split Estate (Folsom) (Spring 2011 Film Series)//

//Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water//

//Trashed: The Story of Garbage, American Style//

//Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water (//Folsom HD1691 .T57 2004)

//The Yes Men Fix the World (Folsom) (Spring 2011 film series)//

//What's On Your Plate (Folsom) (Spring 2011 film series)//

//Who Killed the Electric Car?//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**A Crude Awakening, the Oil Crash: We're Running Out and We Don't Have A Plan (2007)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/index2.html __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.blackwavethefilm.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For twenty years, Riki Ott and the fishermen of the little town of Cordova, Alaska have waged the longest legal battle in U.S. history against the world’s most powerful oil company – ExxonMobil. They tell us all about the environmental, social and economic consequences of the black wave that changed their lives forever. This is the legacy of the Exxon Valdez. __<span style="color: #112508; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">@http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20110221/gas/ __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">New Australian documentary on gas drilling and farming. In short the farmers are very concerned about loss of control of activities on their land, and health impacts of drilling fluids released into an important aquifer (Great Artesian Basin). <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Burning Water (2010)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(CBC’s “The Passionate Eye”) <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/burningwater/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Note: this online version can only be streamed from within Canada. But copies can be purchased from: @http://www.bunburyfilms.com/burningwater.html <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On Christmas Eve 2005, Fiona Lauridsen and her three children got chemical-like burns after taking showers in their home. Tests showed higher than normal levels of methane gas in their water coming straight from the aquifer, along with the presence of man-made chemicals. Where could this have come from? The Lauridsens think it may have been caused by the natural gas drilling that had begun in the region. Encana, Canada's biggest gas company, had just started drilling the underground coal seams on the Lauridsen farm to extract natural gas. The extraction process to release Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is called Hydraulic Fracturing, or "fracking", a process by which the ground is drilled into, pumped with water sand and chemicals in order to fracture the coal or rock; and then releasing methane gas. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series) – “Fracked” (2010)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The deaths of a rancher and an engineer are tied together by their connections to a tainted water supply and the small-town newspaper reporter trying to expose it. Original air date: November 11, 2010 <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Gasland** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://gaslandthemovie.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Haynesville** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.haynesvillemovie.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for Energy takes place in the Louisiana backwoods, and follows the momentous discovery of the largest natural gas field in the United States (and maybe the world). The film examines the historic find (a formation called the “Haynesville Shale”) from the personal level as well as from the higher perspective of the current energy picture and pending energy future. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series) – “Fracked” (2010)**The deaths of a rancher and an engineer are tied together by their connections to a tainted water supply and the small-town newspaper reporter trying to expose it. Original air date: November 11, 2010 http://www.splitestate.com/ Examine fracking in Colorado
 * FRACKING**
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">4 Corners: The Gas Rush (2011) **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Online streaming only
 * Split Estate**
 * Promised Land**Feature film. Lots of critical reviews from both sides.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Crude (2009)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.crudethemovie.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Crude Impact (2009)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> @http://www.crudeimpact.com/show.asp?content_id=9665 <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Film explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet, and the discovery and use of oil. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**H2OIL (2010)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://h2oildoc.com/home/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**OilLiteracy (University of Calgary, 2011)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://people.ucalgary.ca/~literacy/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Canadian debate around climate change, oil dependency and environmental impacts from the tar sands has triggered a multi-layered discourse from scientific facts to political agendas and a blurry and unengaged public opinion, all of which are heavily influenced by different forms of media that have created a plethora of voices and politically influenced constructions of facts and opinions. Understanding and interpreting media is a critical part of democratic citizenship. The free and vigorous exchange of information and ideas to which citizens are exposed can easily become undecipherable clutter, or in effect, background noise in 21st century daily lives that are trying to deal with the complexity and abundance of equal-access information through modern media and communication technologies. In contrast to the mainstream of environmental documentaries that currently offer insights into the tar sands debate, the project sees itself more as a political documentary. It offers a systemic perspective beyond existing polarizations across the media for a critical look at the debate and the role of citizens and consumers. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2010)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.petropolis-film.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler's "Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands" offers an unparalleled view of the world's largest industrial, capital and energy project. Canada's tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath unspoiled wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort with far-reaching impacts on the land, air, water, and climate. It's an extraordinary spectacle, whose scope can only be understood from far above. In a hypnotic flight of image and sound, one machine's perspective upon the choreography of others, suggests a dehumanized world where petroleum's power is supreme. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Refugees of the Blue Planet (NFB, 2006)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=54349 __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home, here in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life. The Refugees of the Blue Planet sheds light on the little-known plight of a category of individuals who are suffering the repercussions of this reality: environmental refugees. They are constantly growing in number and often have no legal status, even though their right to a clean and sustainable environment has been violated. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**The Beloved Community (2006)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0196 __ > > > > > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the summer of 2004, Canadian health researchers made a startling discovery in the Chippewa birth records for the city of Sarnia, an hour north of Detroit: for the past decade, female babies had been outnumbering male babies at a rate of 2:1. Further investigation revealed large numbers of miscarriages, a cluster of reproductive cancers in young women, and widespread neurological problems among the band's children. The Beloved Community looks at a Great Lakes oil town facing a toxic legacy head-on. The nerve center of Canada’s petrochemical industry, Sarnia once enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country, but now the bill has come due, in a compromised environment and a devastating community health crisis. The city has already lost a generation of men to workplace-related cancers. Now their widows and daughters are discovering a reproductive time-bomb; because of their own exposure to a cluster of hormone-mimicking chemicals called "endocrine disruptors," the next generation may be at risk. The impact of endocrine disruptors on the reproductive health of wildlife is well-known, but the birth situation in Sarnia has never been seen in a human population, exposed on a daily basis to industrial pollutants. As these chemicals are in global use in everything from pesticides to dry cleaning fluid, the situation in Sarnia cannot be ignored by anyone concerned about the environment and health of his own community.As the corporations and government have proven unwilling or incapable of providing a solution, the community of Sarnia has been forced to take matters into its own hands. Women who have never thought of themselves as "scientists" are now going door to door, collecting health data from their neighbours in a search for answers. They are demanding a voice in the running of their own community from the complex of giant multinationals: Dow, Shell, DuPont, Imperial Oil, Suncor, Nova, Bayer, and dozens of others who have set the city’s course until now. Rather than abandoning a place that's been called a "slow motion Bhopal," or trying to shut down the plants, they are pressing for answers that can close the books on the past and reclaim the future. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**The End of Suburbia** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A joint investigation by PBS’ FRONTLINE and ProPublica into the trail of problems -- deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations -- which long troubled the oil giant, BP. Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented? School of Energy and Environment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. A video-recording of a Roundtable on the Industrial Heartland-- a joint land-use project that is intended to attract bitumen upgraders and other industrial projects to a 78,550-acre area northeast of Edmonton. Featuring speakers with a range of perspectives exploring the social, economic, and environmental implications of development in the Fort Saskatchewan Industrial Heartland.
 * The Spill (2010, PBS online doc)** <span style="color: #1b39f5; display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__ @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-spill/ __
 * The Price of Prosperity: Exploring the Impacts of Development in the Industrial Heartland (2008)**