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Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Chapter 1 is treatment on 'Human Nature,' noting that our social traditions are out of line with what constitutes positive human development. Chapter 2 details the core flaws of our economic system and how it is destroying us and the planet. Chapter 3 begins a thought exercise on our modern scientific understanding. Chapter 4 sets predictions of what is to come as society becomes more destabilized due to our outdated practices.
3) Chasing ice
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
4) Kon-Tiki
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching. This feature film is based on Heyerdahl's...
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