2013 Films

John Huston in Africa Program

Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn go on location with Oscar-winning director John Huston in the African countries of Nairobi, Uganda and the Republic of Congo...

Shown with THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN and WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART.

Aluminum is a fascinating metal: light, stainless and easy to process. One hundred years ago, it was still so exotic that it was presented at world expositions... 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey that bears witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest... 

Film, Discussion and Book Signing

Artist, writer and naturalist James Prosek has been called “the Audubon of the 21st Century” for his realistic depictions of fish as they appear in the wild... 

'Amazonia' features the work of renowned National Geographic photographer Sam Abell. Drawing on months of concentrated work on the small, untouched rivers of tropical Peru, this program brings to life the delicate and imposing beauty of the Amazon rain forest... 

Urban Rivers and shown as part of the Rivers Program

Shown with ROCK THE BOAT.

A Presentation by Tony Huston

The Earth Conservation Corps and Wings Over America will present live birds of prey used in falconry. 

River Shorts and shown as part of the Rivers Program 

The profound impact of climate change on one of the world's poorest countries, Bangladesh, is illustrated in this film, which documents the effects of increasingly severe climate-related hazards...

Shown with EEL • WATER • ROCK • MAN, THE KING'S RIVER, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US, and THE WATER TOWER.

In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, a vast network of shacks built on stilts above a rising tide of garbage over the ocean bay... 

While China’s economic ascent commands global attention, less light has been shed upon the monumental problem of waste...

Internationally renowned environmental artist Patrick Dougherty has created hundreds of monumental site-specific sculptures out of nothing more than saplings...

The moving true story of a young bonobo's return to life in the wild. Captured by hunters and held in captivity in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Beny is rescued by Claudine André...

Shown with JANE'S JOURNEY and FOR THE BEST AND FOR THE ONION. 

Dropped by their national milk company, a group of Maine dairy farmers is suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms...

Follow the story of Tim DeChristopher and his stunning act of civil disobedience in a time of global climate chaos... 

The extraordinary array of wild birds that grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green, along with the equally colorful, full-of- attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration...

Shown with AN ORIGINAL DUCKUMENTARY, SONG OF THE SPINDLE, and A SEA TURTLE STORY. 

A blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria, indigo has captured the human imagination for millennia and has been in use worldwide since antiquity...

Do you know how to turn ordinary water into a billion-dollar business? In Switzerland there's a company that has developed the art to perfection – The Nestlé Corporation...

Shown wtih THE PEOPLE THE RAIN FORGOT.