Future Earth 2025

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Future Earth 2025 takes us on an extraordinary CGI journey into the future offering a vision of what the world might be like if we continue to deplete one of our primary resources - water. Los Angeles consumed by raging firestorms, Rome under attack from billons of locusts, Washington DC flooded, massive dust storms engulfing Las Vegas, nations suffering drought as rivers dry up, forcing conflicts over water. Just the stuff of apocalyptic Hollywood movies?

Its estimated the world's ever growing propulation will need 50% more water in the next 20 years. Future Earth 2025 creates credible disaster scenarios based on changing weather and rain patterns, and uses the testimony of world leading scientists and engineers to project the future, and explore how these disasters can be diverted by adopting new technologies and making changes to the way we live. Future Earth 2025 is produced by UK based Darlow Smithson.

source: cbc.ca - http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearth2025/

Bio-Dad

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When Barry Stevens sets out to find the sperm donor who brought him into this world, various related issues are brought into focus; eugenics, profit, and what makes a family a family. When does one cross the line between wanting the best for themselves and the people they share their life with, and biological immorality?

Stevens discovers the legacy of a fertile Jewish refugee, and a clinic for women who could not have children by traditional means. He comes upon some amazing characters who help bring light to the many issues involved, and members of his own family who he did not know existed. When Stevens gathers a crowd of similarly confused, and possibly related people to join him on his hunt, the truth begins to take shape as his family tree starts to do the same.

My Kidnapper

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If your inbox read '1 New Message', and you saw the name of the man who had kidnapped you, what would you do? Filmmaker Mark Henderson had to answer this unusual question after his 2003 kidnapping by a group of Marxist guerillas in Colombia. After 5 years, Mark finally decided that he, along with 3 of his fellow captors, would go to investigate Antonio's causes and means. The only woman to suffer through the 101 day trial, Reinhilt Weigel from Germany had come home to further trials by the government who rescued her, as well as feelings of doubt and fear that were putting a halt to her life as she'd known it.

Since the event, Antonio has been able to forge a new life with a female who also participated in the kidnapping. Many questions that our protagonists find unable to ask the rebels themselves, they learn the answers to during their travels through towns they were sequestered away within. When the penalty for disturbing the status quo is death - and you made it out alive - the kidnapped learn how hard it is to hold someone responsible for not helping you gain your own freedom sooner.

Super High Me

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Super High Me is Benson's take on "Super Size Me with weed instead of McDonalds", with debatably predictable outcomes. Undertaking testing on his physical, mental and psychic abilities, interviews with activists, medical marijuana patients, advocates and politicians over the course of the project, Benson creates an amusing and fairly thorough picture of the implications of drug use and whether the battle against marijuana is one worth fighting.

The Weather Underground

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In 1969, a small group of leftist college student radicals announced their intentions to overthrow the U.S. government in opposition to the Vietnam War. This documentary explores the rise and fall of this radical movement as former members speak candidly about the passion that drove them at the time. The film also explores the group in the context of other social movements of the time, featuring interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panther Party. The documentary also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent during this turbulent era. Using archival footage from the 1960s and 1970s, the film also intersperses recent interviews with high profile ex-Weathermen like Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and Brian Flanagan, who talk about their involvement in the organisation, their experiences, and the trajectory that led them to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

source: wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Underground)