Documentary Films About the Environment and Ecology

The Garden is about the South Central Farmers, a group of dirt-poor Los Angelenos who took a track of urban ruin and turned it into an Eden--only to see the flora they so lovingly planted and tended be bulldozed by a selfish land owner. This film is about their dignity, determination and their fight to preserve their garden--and what they've done to recover from its loss.

Manda Bala is a documentary film about the violent class struggle in Brazil, and how cottage industries have sprung up around the frequent kidnappings that occur as the rich steal from the poor and the poor take revenge. And about frog farms in the Amazon.

In Trouble The Water, filmmakers Tia Lessen and Carl Deal follow a New Orleans Ninth Ward couple, Kimberly and Scott Roberts, who've survived Hurricane Katrina with some remarkable footage of the devastating hurricane and its aftermath. We see what happens to people and society when Mother Nature takes her toll on an area that humans claim to have tamed. 

Who Killed the Electric Car? chronicles GM's conspiracy to prevent proliferation of automobiles that ran quietly, efficiently and pollution-free on electricity.