Feature Stream: A Fierce Green Fire

Earth Day is April 22nd!

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization... the film tells vivid stories about people fighting - and succeeding - against enormous odds.

The film is divided into five 'acts'.

Act 1 focuses on the conservation movement of the `60s, David Brower and the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon. Narrated by Robert Redford.

Act 2 looks at the new environmental movement of the `70s with its emphasis on pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois Gibbs over Love Canal. Narrated by Ashley Judd.

Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands and the main story is Greenpeace's campaign to save the whales. Narrated by Van Jones.

Act 4 explores global resource issues and crises of the `80s, focusing on the struggle to save the Amazon led by Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers. Narrated by Isabel Allende.

Act 5 concerns climate change. Narrated by Meryl Streep.

Watch: A Fierce Green Fire

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Feature Stream: Jurassic Park

Monday the 18th is National Velociraptor Awareness Day!

Genetically engineered dinosaurs run amok on a remote island. It's up to a paleontologist, a paleobotanist and a mathematician to outmaneuver the deadly beasts and find their way back to civilization. Based on Michael Crichton's best seller. The film won three Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.

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Feature Stream: Titanic

James Cameron's "Titanic" is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic; the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the "ship of dreams" -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912

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Feature Stream: Wild Nights With Emily

 

Featuring Emily Dickinson's letters and poems via special arrangement with Harvard University Press, and starring comedienne Molly Shannon, this Guggenheim award-winning film is a dramatic comedy about the life of Emily DIckinson. It is a wonderful teaching tool for English, History and Creative Writing classes alike, appropriate for anyone over the age of 12 through post-graduate.

"The Emily of Olnek's film is not a melancholic recluse, but the heroine of a romantic comedy" according to the New York Times, Wild Nights With Emily "wrestles with serious themes, dramatizes fully realized relationships, and poses pointed questions about how legacies are devised and maintained"

Natalie Goldberg, author of the all-time best-selling writers handbook, "Writing Down The Bones," says, "Wild Nights With Emily is a wonderful film to show in schools, for students young and old! I loved this film- it's essential viewing for all students of literature."

Wild Nights With Emily is "As entertaining and thought provoking as Dickinson's poetry" (The Austin Chronicle) and is sure to give your students a lot to talk about, long after the film is over.

Wild Nights With Emily

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Feature Stream: Jojo Rabbit

In the waning months of the Third Reich, the unpopular ten-year-old German boy, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, can't wait to join the ranks of the Nazi Party's youth organization, during an intense training weekend that guarantees to separate the men from the boys. Massively into swastikas and ready to give up his life for his megalomaniac idol, Adolf Hitler, instead, the Führer's tiny number one fan gets kicked out of the Hitler Youth after a disastrous first assignment in front of his peers--an ignominious defeat that earns Jojo an equally degrading nickname. Now, with nothing but time on his hands, Johannes is in for a rude awakening when he accidentally unearths his progressive mother's well-hidden secret and comes face-to-face with a shocking new reality so much different from the hypnotic indoctrinations he's absorbed. But, does everything happen for a reason? Are the others always the enemy? In a mad world, devoured by fear and prejudice, is youthful innocence humankind's redemption? (Description from Nick Riganas)

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Feature Stream: Capturing Lee Miller

 

When Lee Miller returned to New York from Europe in October 1932, newspaper reporters were waiting to greet her as her ship docked. Disembarking in a smart beret and fur-collared coat, she smiled for the journalist from the New York World-Telegram. When he referred to her as 'one of the most photographed girls in Manhattan', she retorted, 'I'd rather take a picture than be one.”

Lee Miller is one of the most remarkable female icons of the 20th century. A model turned photographer turned war reporter - Miller chose to live her life by her own rules. This film celebrates a subject who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a pedestal or pigeonhole her in any way. It tells the story of a trailblazer, often at odds with the morality of the day, who refused to be subjugated by the dominant male figures around her.

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Feature Stream: The Irish in America

This two hour special, produced by Greystone Communications for the A&E Network, is the story of the epic struggle of the Irish in America, the story of five million impoverished people leaving a destitute homeland for "The Promised Land," for America.

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