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- In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the "rules" are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants' emotions to erupt with unforeseen intensity ...
- The NUCLEAR SPLIT of the title has become a feature of life in the Upper Palatinate, a region in West Germany bordering on Czechoslovakia. Since the location of the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant was finally determined on 4 February 1985, many people have changed their accustomed patterns of life. In its continuing line of development and its thematic diversity this film provides a profound insight into the process of landscape and ecologic destruction; and it describes the intentions behind the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in terms of atomic policies. Once loyal citizens have been turned into hesitant radicals. Women civil servants, housewifes and mothers all reveal their awareness of a political and social responsibility that extends far beyond any initial expression of indignation.
- A strange green cloud has turned almost the entire human race into stone. The only survivors are eight children, their intrepid teacher Birnenstiel and his friend, a jolly millionaire, who by chance all happen to be in an airship above the green cloud at the time. Against this background Birnenstiel tells a bizarre adventure story in which he and the children are heroes. With loving and pointed irony he confronts his protagonists with deep-frozen beauty queens, gene-manipulated tomatoes, extraterrestrial maniacs, aggressive goldfish and last but not least the rampant mechanics of an abandoned civilisation which claims its victims one by one. When the narrator goes too far, the children take the story into their own hands...
- A shop in Munich's Westend. No vegetables are offered here, but culture.
- The protagonists talk about their deepest feelings and symptoms such as dizziness and panic, their compulsion for washing or psychotic feelings of persecution in a refreshingly honest and trusting manner, or about everyday fears like the attempt to form their own opinions and the courage to think "egotistically" about themselves.
- A film essay like the first words of a child: "Mama, Papa, Auto". The automobile is documented through the utilization of clip-montage as being a case of arrested development both ecologically and technically.
- GMOs are Genetically Modified Organisms which have made their debut in plants like corn and soybean, but are now in animals for consumption. The controversy of corporations owning "life-forms" and pushing GMOs in 3rd world countries comes to a head in India and Canada in this film. The battle between the corporations and the farmers/naturalists is in full swing with the corporations saying they are improving upon Nature with size and resistance to disease of the new organism. Farmers and naturalist activists say this is not as simple as an Oil spill where eventually the harm from the spill will be overcome by time's healing powers. GMOs on the other hand may destroy the very ecosystem forever, because these new lifeforms replicate as does all life.
- In a hermetically sealed-off safari park in Austria our civilization's moral challenges collide under a magnifying glass: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments "serving mankind". Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated. Today four caretakers manage a unique rehabilitation project, where the victims learn how to become monkeys.
- RUNAWAY tells the story of the fall of Lisa. Her parents only really want the best for her but the best is exactly what Lisa wants to keep for herself. She wants out, to get away. To thunder through the desert with a motor-cycle and her friend Maxie is her dream. Her parents are increa- singly suspicious of the unpredictable, often aggressive behaviour displayed by Lisa. Is their daughter on drugs? A deadly spiral of mistrust begins. Lisa really is suffering from withdrawal symptoms: Withdrawal from her dream. Maxie has let her down. Lisa's whole world has collapsed. She has changed. For her parents she appears to be quieter and more sensible. False harmony spreads throughout the family: A fatal misunderstanding, because Lisa's fall has only just begun...
- The Bavarian Ministry for the Environment announces a hearing to discuss the final seal of approval for the Building of a nuclear power plant. 881000 people who have protested in writing against the building of this plant are "to be heard". The film documents the way in which, during this show of democracy, the last thread of genuine democracy is systematically debilitated and with it, the last remaining risk which could thwart the plans of the pro-atomic lobby.
- In Canada's wheat belt, farmer Percy Schmeiser was sued by the agrochem and seed producing multinational Monsanto for damages worth a quarter million dollars on the grounds of a patent violation, because wind and birds had carried Monsanto's genetically modified canola onto his fields. Schmeiser responded with a countersuit, citing libel and contamination of his property. After making his case public, Schmeiser was recruited by farming, environmental and civil rights organisations to travel around the world as a leader of opposition to Monsanto. His worldwide message: Stand up in defense of your own seed supply! In Europe, farmer Klaus Buschmeier rounds up fellow farmers to revolt going against the German Farmers' Association. They are angry because the Association had made an agreement with plant breeders to charge seed-saving fees--an act perceived as betrayal. In order to enforce gene technology, agrochem multinationals have swallowed up most of the leading plant breeders. Gene technology does not stop hunger in the world, but it does promote the sales of chemicals. Gene technology makes crops resistant to pesticides, and seeds are manipulated to germinate only once. The farmer may bring up the seed, treat crops with chemicals and sell them, but no more. Every farmer's attempt to save his own seed or do his own breeding is either forbidden or comes with fees. This film exposes the efforts of the multinationals to force farmers into dependence on their "terminator technology." The farmers' efforts to save the seeds they have sown is pointless, since none of the seeds will reproduce. In the eyes of Schmeiser, Buschmeier and others, this monopoly has reduced the farmers to serfdom.
- Film documents from the past five decades prove that the use of nuclear energy - whether for peaceful or for military purposes - was made socially acceptable only by repeatedly duping the population. "The Eighth Commandment" (thou shalt not bear false witness on thy neighbour) shows disturbing pictures of nuclear reprocessing plants, giving a sobering insight into the history of atomic power: from Otto Hahn to VEBA chief Benningsen-Voerder. From the first tests in the Nevada desert to the catastrophes of Three Mile Island in the United States to Chernobyl in the former USSR. From political speeches to the civil-war-like scenes at the nuclear power plants of Whyl, Wilster, Brokdorf and Wackersdorf.
- 20091h 31mNot Rated8.0 (65)This is a documentary thriller about how Agro-Chemical multinational corporations victimize international scientists to prevent them from publishing their scary findings.
- Everyday life at the Dante secondary modern school is turned upside down when the pupils take over and decide what, how and indeed whether they want to learn. The experiment was originally planned for a single week, but it has rapidly grown from strength to strength. Headmaster Zander's ulterior motive had been to let the pupils find out for themselves that they would be at a loss to cope with so much freedom. The pupils however use their new scope to channel their energies into their own interests and develop a whole range of new ideas. The existing order at the school is completely reversed: the pupils demand that the teachers pay more attention to their own wishes, and even go so far as to mark the quality of the teaching. School becomes exciting again; whether it is hatching hens' eggs in biology or questioning grannies and granddads about the rise of National Socialism, the pupils enjoy it. But the potential success of the experiments is jeopardised by several factors: vindictive pupils depose Zander the Head and terrorise even the most well-meaning teachers. And among the teachers' ranks are a few who distrusted the whole exercise right from the start and now demand that Zander take a firm stand and put a stop to the disruption. But the headmaster has a hard task abolishing his own scheme.
- The average age of the employees at the Vita Needle Company, a needle factory near Boston, is an amazing 73 years. Anyone who can make it up the front steps gets hired. Full of joy and vitality, the elderly workers talk about the dream they all share: to be able to climb up the steps leading to the production hall for as long as possible!
- Sex, potatoes, weapons - the alchemical substance called money can transform anything into anything. Humanity's most consequential invention is both brilliant and fatal.
- In Los Alamos New Mexico, Robert J. Oppenheimer and his staff created the first atomic bomb, "Trinity," the scientific prototype to "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," the bombs that hastened the end of World War II by leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the laboratory is now a leading center of genetic research, it remains a place of secrecy, for its main mission is to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal, a task that hides behind the name, "Stockpile Stewardship." This film is about the history, heritage and horrors of the nuclear age in Los Alamos. The lab takes up forty-three square miles--indigenous land of the Tewa people from the pueblos Santa Clara and San Ildefonso. Consequently, the local Indians are cut off from their traditional shrines of worship. One of these sacred places contains the petroglyph of Avanyu, the mythic serpent that is the guardian of the springs. According to tribal wisdom, those who poison the water must face Avanyu's fiery revenge. The local ground water has been contaminated by decades of the laboratory's negligence. At the laboratory, formulas pull rank on myths. Warnings from the pueblos' spiritual leaders to laboratory officials fell upon deaf ears. Nothing disturbs the local air of denial like a little peaceful activism. Artists and activists meet at the Black Hole, a former supermarket that Ed Grothus calls home. Ed, an outspoken pacifist, resells lab salvage at the Black Hole. However, radioactive waste is never resold; instead, over decades, the laboratory covertly buried it in the ground. That's where former New Mexico EPA inspector Greg Mello comes in. With his peaceful Geiger counter, Mello has become the laboratory's most feared critic. The film also features former lab employees, Native American historians and environmentalists, artist Erika Wanenmacher, all of whom take a stand on behalf of the land and historical truth.
- A documentary to inspire a different way of thinking and living. Can organic agriculture really feed the world? Or must we continue to poison ourselves and destroy the soil with genetic engineering and artificial chemicals?
- "Bleiben Sie Dran!" is the second film in a little series of documentaries of "things" who changed the world. Its around wathching TV and its impact on peoples live. The other two films are around car driving ("Mama Papa Auto - Ein Nachruf auf das Automobil") and computing ("Beziehungskiste - Der Computer und sein Mensch").