The following films and documentaries are free (eco-nomical) to watch and will help build awareness. Every week a new film / documentary is featured.

(If you want full screen facility double click on any of the films and documentaries listed.)

NOTE: Eco Homes and Gardens does not own any of these films and documentaries. They are featured on this site to increase public awareness.

Monday May 14th

Off Grid Solar Power for Communities

This video demonstrates how a solar array can power an offgrid community and related business.

Monday May 7th

Eco Home: Escaping The Big City

Meet the people who build ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment. Are they just escaping big city life for a short break, or rejecting modern civilization altogether? And are such ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and outcasts, or a place for the independent and strong-minded?

Monday April 30th

Agent Orange - Vietnam & Today

AGENT ORANGE CORN IN 2012!

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ready to approve corn genetically engineered by Dow Chemical to resist massive doses of the herbicide 2,4-D.

2,4-D was half the formula of Dow & Monsanto's Agent Orange, commissioned by the US Army to defoliate jungles and destroy food crops during the Vietnam War.

Thanks to lobbyist-cum-regulator Michael Taylor -- he's used the revolving door to go back and forth between Monsanto and the Food & Drug Administration -- genetically engineered foods don't have to be safety tested or labeled, and the FDA conducts no premarket review or approval, as long as the biotech company concludes that the genetically engineered food is not "materially different" from normal food.

Michael Taylor's FDA has rubber-stamped Dow's conclusion that their Agent Orange Corn is comparable to normal corn. Soon, we'll be eating unlabeled corn engineered with genes from a soil bacterium that isn't killed by 2,4-D herbicide -- something we've never eaten before, and that's never been safety tested.

2,4-D is currently the 7th largest source of dioxin pollution in the US. Agent Orange Corn is projected to increase 2,4-D use 50 times over.

There is a large body of evidence indicating major health problems resulting from exposure to 2,4-D that include cancer, reproductive problems, neurotoxicity, and immunosuppression.

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War means that for many the war never ended. They're still suffering the effects of chemical warfare.

Monday April 23rd

The Cove

The Cove is a 2009 documentary film that analyzes and questions Japan's dolphin hunting culture. It was awarded the (2010) Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills; change Japanese fishing practices; and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. The film is told from an ocean conservationist's point of view.

The film was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos. Portions were filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks

You can actively participate in raising awareness.. Visit www.savejapandolphins.org

This video is not uploaded for commercial purposes but solely for educational purposes in the hope of sparing dolphin and whale lifes by exposing the monstrocities commited by a few. Save our planet, save our oceans. Share this video with your friends and family. Together we stand strong and maybe together we can stop this senseless killing of intelligent beings, born by the same mother of us all, Earth.

Monday April 16th

Coral Reef Adventure HD

This beautiful high definition documentary demonstrates the importance of our planets coral reefs and how modern lifestyles are endangering many of the ecosystems that are present in coral reefs.

Monday April 9th

The Blue Planet courtesy of NASA

The Blue Planet is an extraordinary film with lots of footage of Earth taken from space courtesy of NASA and the astronauts.

Monday April 2nd

Genetically Modified Foods, Panacea or Poison?

Genetic Modification of food is an issue that affects all of humankind and nature. Are these large global corporations slowly changing the genetics of people over generations? Most of these experimental foods have not been properly tested in the human diet to see the long term effects of consuming GM food. This is a crime against humanity. Is there a fear gene now in our food that is stopping the majority of populations from questioning these vertically integrated corporations who now own both food and big pharmaceutical companies? Are they capable of inserting non traceable cancer genes in food that ultimately need their pharmaceuticals to cure? These are some of the questions we as global citizens should be asking to slow down the acceptance, without question, of these rapidly spreading technologies. If we conduct adequate testing that benefits populations and not fast profit motives of corporations we may discover that some of these technologies are beneficial, in time.

Monday March 26th

Organic Farming Documentary

What is organic farming?
Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture where the aim is to create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production systems. Maximum reliance is placed on locally or farm-derived renewable resources and the management of self-regulating ecological and biological processes and interactions in order to provide acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests and diseases, and an appropriate return to the human and other resources employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is reduced as far as possible. In many European countries, organic agriculture is known as ecological agriculture, reflecting this reliance on ecosystem management rather than external inputs.

The objective of sustainability lies at the heart of organic farming and is one of the major factors determining the acceptability or otherwise of specific production practices. The term 'sustainable' is used in its widest sense, to encompass not just conservation of non-renewable resources (soil, energy, minerals) but also issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability. The term 'organic' is best thought of as referring to the concept of the farm as an organism, in which all the component parts - the soil minerals, organic matter, micro-organisms, insects, plants, animals and humans - interact to create a coherent and stable whole.

The key characteristics of organic farming include:

protecting the long term fertility of soils by maintaining organic matter levels, encouraging soil biological activity, and careful mechanical intervention;

providing crop nutrients indirectly using relatively insoluble nutrient sources which are made available to the plant by the action of soil micro-organisms;

nitrogen self-sufficiency through the use of legumes and biological nitrogen fixation, as well as effective recycling of organic materials including crop residues and livestock manures;

weed, disease and pest control relying primarily on crop rotations, natural predators, diversity, organic manuring, resistant varieties and limited (preferably minimal) thermal, biological and chemical intervention;

the extensive management of livestock, paying full regard to their evolutionary adaptations, behavioural needs and animal welfare issues with respect to nutrition, housing, health, breeding and rearing;

careful attention to the impact of the farming system on the wider environment and the conservation of wildlife and natural habitats.

Monday March 19th

Money As Debt

Money As Debt is a fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature by artist & videographer, Paul Grignon. It explains today's magically perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM in terms that are easy to understand.
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, there is no human relation between master and slave. Debt- government, corporate and household has reached astronomical proportions. Where does all this money come from? How could there BE that much money to lend? The answer is...there isn't. Today, MONEY IS DEBT. If there were NO DEBT there would be NO MONEY.
If this is puzzling to you, you are not alone. Very few people understand, even though all of us are affected.

Monday March 12th

Healing Cancer

Mike Anderson exposes the failings of conventional cancer treatments and how the medical establishment and the cancer industry wildly - and deceptively - exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Interviews with people who have beaten the disease demonstrate how cancer can be successfully healed with dietary treatments and natural supplementation. Participants in the film include: T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., The China Study; Brian Clement, Ph.D., Hippocrates Health Institute; Brenda Cobb, The Living Foods Institute; Mirea Ellis, The Kushi Institute; Charlotte Gerson, The Gerson Institute and many more.

Monday March 5th

The Life Of The Buddha

This documentary covers the life of Siddhartha Gautama, a young prince from India who went out to find the reason for "Dukkha" [problems] of human life. He later found the reason of Dukkha and teached a way to live life. He was later known as the Buddha, the founder of "Buddhism". The religion with no god.
"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism." -Albert Einstein

Monday February 27th

Garbage Warrior

What do beer cans, car tyres and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of "Earthship Biotecture" by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony. However, these experimental structures that defy state standards create conflict between Reynolds and the authorities, who are backed by big business. Frustrated by antiquated legislation, Reynolds lobbies for the right to create a sustainable living test site. While politicians hum and ha, Mother Nature strikes, leaving communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes. Reynolds and his crew seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it most. Shot over three years and in four countries, Garbage Warrior is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.

Monday February 20th

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

A documentary film by Noam Chomsky examining news media as business and how it is controlled by the corporate world.

Using the propaganda model, Manufacturing Consent posits that corporate owned news, mass communication media, print, radio, television are businesses subject to commercial competition for advertising revenue and profit. As such, their distortion (editorial bias) of news reportage i.e. what types of news, which items, and how they are reported is a consequence of the profit motive that requires establishing a stable, profitable business; therefore, news businesses favoring profit over the public interest succeed, while those favoring reportorial accuracy over profits fail, and are relegated to the margins of their markets (low sales and ratings).

Monday February 13th

Blue Gold - World Water Wars

Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive

Monday February 6th

EcoVillage at Ithaca

A model ecological village in the progressive town of Ithaca in upstate New York. Currently developing its 3rd neighborhood called TREE. For more information www.ecovillageithaca.org .

Monday January 30th

Riding Giants (Big Wave Surfing)

Documentary showing the history of surfing and modern day big wave surfing.

Monday January 23rd

Kymatica

The questions that have remained timeless and profound throughout history have been all but left for dead. There have been messages left in scripture, archeological remains, shamanic traditions, philosophy, poetry, art and music. As we move closer to an apex of technological and intellectual information, we find ourselves farther and farther away from feeling any comfort or wholeness within our hearts and souls.

Yet even though the concept of spirituality should have been long gone by now, we are seeing an awakening among people and a growing desire for truth.

For the first time in history we are finding that there are no sole saviors or lone prophets to guide us, but a whole race waking from a sleep that has brought this world to the brink of destruction. In a world where Apocalyptic catastrophes seem inevitable, we must look at the solutions in a whole new manner.

As the latest quantum mechanics and metaphysics are just being discovered, we notice that we are not moving forward, but returning to a consciousness that the ancient shamans, mystics and sages have left for us.

It is a new age. An age for responsibility and stewardship. And as we begin to look for answers in the world within, the world without will reflect. In this new age, we will discover that we are all one mind, one organism, and one spirit. We are the savior we have been waiting for.

Monday January 16th

Esoteric Agenda

There is an Esoteric Agenda behind every facet of life that was once believed to be disconnected. There is an Elite faction guiding most every Political, Economic, Social, Corporate, some Non-Governmental or even Anti-Establishment Organizations. This film uses the hard work and research of professionals in every field helping to expose this agenda put the future of this planet back into the hands of the people.

Monday January 9th: Supersize Me

While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month. There is a 10 second delay at the start of this film.

Monday January 2: Killing The Electric Car

Did General Motors deliberately sabotage the marketing of electric cars because they threatened the motor industry? That's the allegation made in a controversial documentary called 'Who Killed The Electric Car'.

Ten years ago, GM unveiled the EV1 -- the first electric car for the mass market. "The EV1 was really special because it was cool and fast and fun to drive," states former GM marketer Chelsea Sexton. "These cars were so good, they would challenge the status quo of the oil industry." But despite their popularity among owners, GM quickly pulled the plug on its new product. It claims there was simply no mass market. "You could only go 100 miles before you had to recharge it so had to adapt your lifestyle to meet the needs of the vehicle," states spokesman Dave Barthmuss. But other workers believe GM never intended the EV1s to work and were more interested in promoting Hummers. "We got indications along the way that they weren't as sincere as they would have people believe," states Sexton. All the EV1s had been leased, instead of sold, to their owners. When the leases expired, GM refused to renew them and sent the cars to be crushed. But demand for electric cars keeps on growing. Some enthusiasts have converted their own cars to run on electricity and claim they have invented a battery that will last for 500km.

2010 TESLA ROADSTER SPORT 2.5 ELECTRIC CAR

Tesla latest models can be viewed here.

Monday December 26th: The Tale of a Smarter Planet

IBM's vision of a technologically smarter society and planet. Some parts good, some questionable. For example RFID (radio frequency identification chips) are mentioned in this technological vision that could become a nightmare if humans are asked to welcome these tracking devices as part of the technological vision of 'being in control' and 'free'.

Monday December 12th: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the USA

Monday December 5th: The Story of Stuff

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Monday November 28th: The Slow Poisoning of India

Monday November 21st: DIY Water Wind Power

A documentary showing how a challenge to build a water turbine and micro wind generator can raise lots of problems but from these problems come real solutions.

Monday November 14th: Human Nature

Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover who was raised in the wild as an ape. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man Puff in the ways of the world (starting with table manners), Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges exposing the perversities of the human heart and the idiosyncrasies of the civilized mind. Human Nature is a comical examination of the trappings of desire in a world where both nature and culture are idealized.

Monday November 7th: Revelations - Awakening As One

WRITERS' INTRO TO "REVELATIONS"

We have said before that "the time has come", and that "the revolution has begun". And now, with the passage of time and the willingness to learn we stand in the light of our expanded awareness to see that the Earth does not require a Revolution on the part of humanity, but, rather, she is lovingly urging our Evolution; an evolution that awaits all those who are willing to humble themselves and 'let go' of what they know. For, it is only in 'letting go' that one may become 'open like a child' and receive the grace of world-altering Revelations.

It is with humble hearts and much gratitude that we present the following "Revelations" that have come during our search to determine how we may be of greatest service to the Earth and all living things in these times of great change.Although being faced with these Revelations for the first time, ourselves, caused some degree of anxiety as they went against so much that we thought we 'knew' about Life, Light and Service; an earnest search into our own hearts, and a willingness to face the uncompromising truth, has revealed liberating new perspectives on the World-Altering event of the coming Shift, including what it may look like, and how today's increasingly intense world events will serve to assist Humanity's Evolution.

"Revelations" also reveals the dangers prevalent within today's rising "spiritual" and New Age Movements, as we, ourselves have been humbled to experience from the crest of the rising wave. To date, "Revelations" is a piece that is most dear to our hearts as it reflects the lessons that have come from the trials and challenges of our own journey of Awakening.

Monday October 31st: EndGame

For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME.

Jones chronicles the history of the global elite's bloody rise to power and reveals how they have funded dictators and financed the bloodiest wars—creating order out of chaos to pave the way for the first true world empire. * Watch as Jones and his team track the elusive Bilderberg Group to Ottawa and Istanbul to document their secret summits, allowing you to witness global kingpins setting the world's agenda and instigating World War III. * Learn about the formation of the North America transportation control grid, which will end U.S. sovereignty forever. * Discover how the practitioners of the pseudo-science eugenics have taken control of governments worldwide as a means to carry out depopulation. * View the progress of the coming collapse of the United States and the formation of the North American Union.

ENDGAME

Monday October 24th: Apocalypto

As the foundation of the Mayan civilization begins to crumble, one man's previously idyllic existence is forever changed when he is chosen as a sacrifice needed to appease the gods in director Mel Gibson's mythic, end-times adventure. The Mayan kingdom is at the absolute height of opulence and power, but leaders are convinced that unless more temples are constructed and more human sacrifices made, the crops, and ultimately the people, will suffer. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is a peaceful hunter from a remote forest tribe whose life is about to be changed forever. When Jaguar Paw's village is raided and he is prepared as a sacrifice that the Mayan deities have demanded, the brave young hunter is forced to navigate a horrific new world of fear and oppression. Fearlessly determined to escape his captors and save his family from a harrowing demise, Jaguar Paw prepares to risk it all in one final, desperate attempt to preserve his dying way of life. However, few who have seen the sacrificial alter of the Mayans have managed to live to see another day. Now, in order to rescue his pregnant wife and young son, Jaguar Paw will have to elude the most powerful warriors of the Mayan kingdom while using his vast knowledge of the forest to turn the tables on those who would rather see him dead than set free. Inspired by such ancient Mayan texts as the Popul Vuh, Apocalypto marks a comprehensive collaboration between director Mel Gibson, Cambridge-educated screenwriter Farhad Safinia, and world-renowned archeologist and Mayan culture expert Dr. Richard D. Hansen -- whose services as a special consultant on the film lent the production an unprecedented degree of historical accuracy.

APOCALYPTO

Bless you Mel Gibson. Freedom is The Truth !

Monday October 17th: The Lion King

Animated film classic.

THE LION KING

Monday October 10th: Bowling For Colombine

Michael Moore's 2002 feature film on America's gun culture.

BOWLING FOR COLOMBINE

Monday October 3rd: The World According to Monsanto (Full Length)

There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it -- it's strategic. It's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world. The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the "revolving door". One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company's vice president for public policy.

Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsanto's long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO

Monday September 26th: The Corporation (Full Length)

The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.

THE CORPORATION

Monday September 19th: The Future Of Food

THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Monday September 12th: Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

"Oil Smoke & Mirrors" offers a sobering critique of our perceived recent history, of our present global circumstances, and of our shared future in light of imminent, under-reported and mis-represented energy production constraints.Through a series of impressively candid, informed and articulate interviews, this film argues that the bizzare events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizzare prosecution of the so-called "war on terror", can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent and critical divergence between available global oil supply and and global oil demand.

The picture "Oil, Smoke & Mirrors" paints is one of a tragically hyper-mediated global-political culture, which, for whatever reason, demonstrably disassociates itself from the values it claims to represent.
While the ideas presented in this film can at first seem daunting, it's ultimate assertion is that these challenges can indeed be met and surpassed, if, but only if, we can find the courage to perceive them.
Oil, Smoke & Mirrors" is an independent production. The producer has neither association with, nor membership of, any political organisation.

OIL, SMOKE AND MIRRORS (Full Length)

Monday September 5th: The Incredible Human Journey: Out of Africa

Broadcast (2010) Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

Alice travels to Africa in search of the birthplace of the first people. They were so few in number and so vulnerable that today they would probably be considered an endangered species. So what allowed them to survive at all? The Bushmen of the Kalahari have some answers - the unique design of the human body made them efficient hunters and the ancient click language of the Bushmen points to an early ability to organise and plan.

THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN JOURNEY: OUT OF AFRICA

Monday August 29th: Poisoned Waters: Puget Sound

Hedrick Smith investigates the state of Puget Sound's environment, where decades of pollution have endangered the orca whales, whose carcasses have shown high levels of cancer-causing PCBs.

POISONED WATERS

Monday August 22nd: The Team

A cinema verite documentary about the homeless soccer team from New York City who travel and compete at the 1st Annual Homeless Soccer World Cup in Graz, Austria in July 2003.

THE TEAM

Monday August 15th: Nanook Of THe North

NANOOK OF THE NORTH

Nanook of the North is regarded as the first significant nonfiction feature, made in the days before the term "documentary" had even been coined. Filmmaker Robert Flaherty had lived among the Eskimos in Canada for many years as a prospector and explorer, and he had shot some footage of them on an informal basis before he decided to make a more formal record of their daily lives. Financing was provided by Revillion Freres, a French fur company with an outpost on the shores of Hudson Bay. Filming took place between August 1920, and August 1921, mostly on the Ungava Peninsula of Hudson Bay. Flaherty employed two recently developed Akeley gyroscope cameras which required minimum lubrication; this allowed him to tilt and pan for certain shots even in cold weather. He also set up equipment to develop and print his footage on location and show it in a makeshift theater to his subjects. Rather than simply record events as they happened, Flaherty staged scenes -- fishing, hunting, building an igloo -- to carry along his narrative. The film's tremendous success confirmed Flaherty's status as a first-rate storyteller and keen observer of man's fragile relationship with the harshest environmental conditions. (In a sadly appropriate footnote, Nanook, the subject of the film, died of starvation not long after the film's release.)

Monday August 8th: The Eagle



Monday August 1st: Future is Wild

Imagine a world far, far into the future. A world very different than our own where people have been wiped out by massive climatic and geological changes, nearly destroying the Earth. What would the world be like, and what kinds of creatures could survive? An international team of eminent scientists was formed to predict the future and its new life forms in five million, 100 million and 200 million years. The scientists predicted that the Earth would go through several phases, including Ice World after five million years, Hothouse World at 100 million years and New World at 200 million years. To portray the scenery as accurately as possible, a camera crew traveled to remote locations around the world. State-of-the-art animation helped bring to life such freakish beings as Flishes combining the characteristics of birds and fish, the giant slimemold known as the Slithersucker, the Toraton tortoise bigger than any dinosaur, tree-dwelling squids called Squibbons, the spewing Spitfire Bird and many more!

RETURN OF THE ICE

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

Monday July 25th: Wamego: Making Movies Anywhere

WAMEGO: MAKING MOVIES ANYWHERE

From the majestic prairie fires of Kansas, through the neon glow of a carnival, to a year-in-the-life journey on making a dream come true, this documentary follows The Balderson Family on their pursuit to prove anyone can make motion pictures anywhere.

Monday July 18th: The Gerson Miracle

In this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel, noted medical doctor Max Gerson reveals a nutritional healing treatment that he claims can restore the body's ability to fight off cancer and numerous other degenerative diseases. The testimonies of a few "incurable" cancer patients highlight why this long-term cure could be much more effective than many of Dr. Gerson's critics may care to admit.

THE GERSON MIRACLE: Cancer Cure

Monday July 11th: Sweet Misery

Filmmakers Cori Brackett and J.T. Waldron explore the issue of aspartame toxicity in a documentary that implores viewers to take consider the potentially damaging effects of the common food additive. A sugar substitute that is found in NutraSweet and many common diet drinks, aspartame is alleged to cause toxic reactions in the human body that can result in a wide variety of physical and mental ailments. In stating their claim that aspartame toxicity is perhaps the most insidious representation of corporate negligence since tobacco, Brackett and Waldron offer compelling evidence about a potentially deadly phenomenon.

SWEET MISERY

Monday July 4th: Us Now

In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power? New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government. This website features all material being created during the making of the film. "if you treat people as kind of passive recipients of things you will just end up with a very, very aggressive grumpy people who will present you with a set of demands that you cannot possibly meet.

Us NOW

Monday June 27th: Shaolin Ulysses: KungFu Monks in America

Filmmakers Martha Burr and Chen Mei-jun join forces to explore the American immigrant experience from the unique vantage point of five émigré monks from China's legendary Shaolin Temple. From constructing new temples to performing under the bright lights in Las Vegas, these Zen masters and kung-fu artists discuss precisely how they attempt to balance the ancient demands of their rich native culture with the often contradictory expectations thrust upon them by Western society.

KUNGFU MONKS IN AMERICA

Monday June 20th: Radiohead - OK COMPUTER

This 53 minute film reviews the most influential album of one of rock musics true giants. The documentary includes rare musical performances never before available on DVD, and obscure footage of comments, criticisms and insights on every track from the album by writer, journalist, and author of Radiohead A Guide To Their Music, Mark Paytress, respected rock authority and ex Mojo editor, Barney Hoskyns, Radiohead biographer Alex Ogg, and more. Through this DVD you can reassesses and get insight into one of rocks seminal works OK Computer.

Radiohead OK COMPUTER

Monday June 13th: Severn Suzuki

Severn, daughter of David Suzuki, with her inspirational and heart felt speech at the Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit 1992 (8mins) ...

SEVERN SUZUKI SPEECH

Monday June 6th: The Fort Fisher Hermit

Robert E. Harrill, The Fort Fisher Hermit, spent 17 years under the stars and scrub oaks of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Surviving off the land and the contributions from thousands of visitors, the Fort Fisher Hermit became one of the areas largest tourist attractions. But Robert's new life wasn't as idyllic as he made it out to be, and his untimely death is marked by mystery and controversy. This film examines the reasons that led him to become a hermit, his growing popularity, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.

THE FORT FISHER HERMIT

Monday May 30th: FUEL

Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11 year journey around the world to find solutions to America's addiction to oil. A shrinking economy, a failing auto industry, rampant unemployment, an out-of-control national debt, and an insatiable demand for energy weigh heavily on all of us. Fuel shows us the way out of the mess we're in by explaining how to replace every drop of oil we now use, while creating green jobs and keeping our money here at home. The film never dwells on the negative, but instead shows us the easy solutions already within our reach.

FUEL

Monday May 23rd:- Kogi Tribe - From The Heart Of The World, 'The Elder Brothers Warning'

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Monday May 16th: - Supermarket Secrets

Dispatches documentary about how the food we buy in our supermarkets is grown or manufactured. This is a series of nine minute clips. When part 1 is finished part 2 will appear and so on...

SUPERMARKET SECRETS

Monday May 9th: - The End Of Suburbia

The End of Suburbia is a 52 minute documentary on Peak Oil and the effects it has on society. Incidentally the world is currently refining more oil than ever before yet the price seems to be going up all the time?! ... More of a product in the marketplace should mean cheaper prices for consumers but the powers that be have figured out a slow price increase model that does not shock the general public into peaceful marching on the streets. It is the same model used to erode social benefits each year. They are increasingly extracting a finite resource and getting as much for the remaining oil as they possibly can. One way to tackle the problem is to use less oil and look for alternative modes of transport. If you have 2 cars why not get rid of one and invest in electric bikes instead? An electric bike is perfect for regular trips to the shop and touring the surrounding countryside at weekends. Typical cost is 1 cent a mile for electricity and cycling is effortless. The kids won't grumble when they are asked to get the messages either as it is a fun form of powered transport. Invest in a horse too maybe if you live in the countryside. Horses and ponies make good lawnmowers too plus they supply an endless supply of organic manure for your garden !

THE END OF SUBURBIA / Peak Oil

Monday May 2nd: - Run From The Cure

Can Hemp Cure Cancer? Rick Simpson a Canadian farmer believes it can and has made it his life's mission to tell the world how he cured his cancer using hemp oil. When he tried to help others cure their cancers BIG Pharma and government tried to suppress his work ...

RUN FROM THE CURE / Hemp Cures Cancer

Monday April 11: - HOME

HOME an inspirational movie 1hour 33mins in length. Grab your organic snacks, turn down the lights, plug in your speakers and click full screen option. (Note: YouTube have removed embed facility for HOME. Click on the screen twice and you will be able to watch it directly on YouTube.) ... Enjoy !

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Monday April 18: - ZEITGEIST 2: ADDENDUM

Want to learn how Ireland's economy is collapsing and the benefits of a Resource Based Economy? Check this out ...

ZEITGEIST 2: ADDENDUM

Monday April 25th: - MOMENTS - SURFING

Short film made by the Quiksilver surf team ...

MOMENTS - Surfing Short Film (23mins)

An interesting documentary about wave power made in Doolin, County Clare, Ireland.

WAVE POWER