Po šesti dlouhých letech se vrací Jack Sommersby, který je už považován za mrtvého, z americké občanské války domů. Jeho žena Laurel reaguje zprvu nejistě, neboť její muž jí připadá cizí: dříve nepříjemný tyran dnes působí něžně a soucitně. Je to ale opravdu její manžel? Pak je Sommersby obviněn z vraždy.
Příběh natočený podle skutečné události, kterou ve své knize The Informant popisuje Kurt Eichenwald. V noci na začátku listopadu roku 1992 se vysoce postavený úředník společnosti ADM (Archer Daniels Midlands) Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) přizná agentovi FBI Brianu Shepardovi (Scott Bakula), že řídící pracovníci včetně Whitacrea samotného se opakovaně scházeli s konkurenčními společnostmi, aby upravili ceny lyzinu – potravinářské přísady. Byla to původně Whitacreova manželka (Melanie Lynskey), která Whitacrea přiměla, aby nelegální upravování cen zastavil, jinak půjde na FBI sama. Bylo to vůbec poprvé, co se přímý účastník takového kartelu dobrovolně přiznal.
Přesvědčivý depresivní pohled na velkopodnikání ve výrobě potravin nejen popisuje jejich nechutnou cestu z polí a stájí ke spotřebiteli, ale zároveň zkoumá ekonomický řetězec, v němž následky zdánlivě levného jídla, kdy hamburger stojí méně než brokolice, nese celý zdravotní a sociální systém.
Julian Rome (James Spader), lehce zneuznávaný expert na mimozemské civilizace a nevysvětlitelné jevy, je povolán do srdce Antarktidy. Přísně tajný tým výzkumníků tu hluboko pod ledem narazil na neznámý mimozemský objekt, a Rome má pomoci plavidlo identifikovat. Od prvního kroku ho pronásleduje nedůvěra a překážky ze strany úřadů, on nicméně postupně spěje k nezvratitelnému objevu. Proběhla lidská evoluce opravdu bez cizího přičinění?
Vědci a aktivisté z řad celebrit vkládají do půdy velkou naději. Ukazují, jak může pomoct v boji proti změně klimatu a za záchranu planety.
Jaká je realita živočišné výroby? Jak se liší průmyslový velkochov od malé farmy? Svůj pohled na masný průmysl a zejména související ekonomické či etické otázky a takzvaného „welfare“ zvířat nabízejí kromě chovatelů – samotných – i sociologové či ochránci zvířat... Investigativní dokument poodhalí každodenní realitu v „továrnách na zvířata“. Průmyslové velkochovy dráždí ochránce zvířat, ale řadu eticko-filozofických a ekonomických otázek vznášejí také třeba sociologové. Kdy jsme my lidé rozhodli, že zvířata proměníme v pouhé věci, které nám budou sloužit jen jako zboží? Pokládáme se za milovníky zvířat, ročně jich ale sedmdesát miliard usmrtíme. Velkochovatelé ve zvířatech nevidí živé bytosti, ale zdroj, který se má zpracovat na další surovinu, například na maso. Posláním zvířete v tomto ekonomickém řetězci je splnit svůj úkol: má růst, přibývat na váze a posléze jít na porážku, případně snášet vejce nebo produkovat mléko.
Surrounded by a forest and a gated entrance, the Grace Field House is inhabited by orphans happily living together as one big family, looked after by their "Mama," Isabella. Although they are required to take tests daily, the children are free to spend their time as they see fit, usually playing outside, as long as they do not venture too far from the orphanage — a rule they are expected to follow no matter what. However, all good times must come to an end, as every few months, a child is adopted and sent to live with their new family... never to be heard from again. However, the three oldest siblings have their suspicions about what is actually happening at the orphanage, and they are about to discover the cruel fate that awaits the children living at Grace Field, including the twisted nature of their beloved Mama.
Al Wayne loves farming — and we don’t mean the video game sim. He wants to be a literal farmer, but in the process of improving his agriculture skills, he somehow winds up maxing out his overall character stats! He’s superpowered in the most unexpected of ways with abilities even the strongest of heroes would envy. Alas, all he wants is an idyllic farmer's life, but with demons and monsters invading the realm, Al may have to take up the mantle of hero just to keep his dreams from withering away!
When Mikazuki Augus, a young member of a private security company known as the CGS, accepts a mission to protect a young woman seeking to liberate the Martian city of Chryse from Earth’s rule, he sets off a chain of events that threatens to send the galaxy back to war.
Yuugo Hachiken enrolled in Ooezo Agricultural High School for the reason that he could live in a dorm there. In some ways he chose Ooezo in an effort to escape the highly competitive prep schools he had attended previously, but he was faced with an entirely new set of difficulties at Oezo, surrounded by animals and Mother Nature. After growing up in an average family, he began to encounter clubs and training the likes of which he had never seen before.
Makoto Kowata is a little flighty, in multiple ways. With no sense of direction, but the ability to fly on a broom, this witch-in-training has a lot to learn; about magic, her relatives, and the world around her.
Teenager Hata Kosaku is crushed when his favorite singing idol, Kusakabe Yuka, stuns the world by retiring from show business. Kosaku’s friends try to cheer him up, but nothing can chase away his gloomy mood until Yuka herself transfers into his class at Tamo Agriculture School!
In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful place for both locals and newcomers. But the appearance of rural idyll in eastern Germany is deceptive. There are turnaround winners and turnaround losers, friends and enemies, neighbors eyeing each other with suspicion, gossip, old secrets and hidden conflicts. When the mayor puts forward the proposal to have a company build a wind farm with dozen of wind turbines in order to secure the prosperity and future of the locals, the open fight for the only possible piece of land begins, which unfortunately belongs to three different owners. Everyone sees big money for themselves. Alliances are formed and friends become enemies. In addition, an unscrupulous vulture capitalism investor from southern Germany interferes that causes the glass to overflow.
Sanae Baraki is a farmer’s daughter who can see spirits. Every day she works on her field together with spirits to produce the best agricultural goods. However, there is a group that aims to stop her. With the blessing of the earth, she transforms into Agriculture Angel Baraki.
Benedikt Bösel was an investment banker, but then the financial crisis hit and with it the question of meaning. Today, he is a farmer, a visionary and leads a young team that is testing a radical new type of agriculture in the fight against climate change.
Plechová kavalérie is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about combine operators filmed by Jaroslav Dudek.
It takes a family to raise a farm! This new reality series provides a glimpse into the life and living of America's farm families. They work hard and play even harder.
Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.
An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.
Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
A magazine show that reveals the hidden gems of locally-produced Quebec food, as well as the artisans who work so hard to create them.
The history of the European peasantry, which has undergone many upheavals over the centuries: from its rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the oppression of the nobility and the Church, to the struggles for freedom and modernization in the present era.
