Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress 2019

7.70

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

2019

A Clear and Present Danger

A Clear and Present Danger 1970

1

The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.

1970

The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? 1983

1

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona – homeland of the Hopi and Navajo.

1983

Broken Rainbow

Broken Rainbow 1985

5.70

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

1985

Planet of the Humans

Planet of the Humans 2019

6.40

Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.

2019

Hardware

Hardware 1990

5.90

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

1990

Toxic Soup

Toxic Soup 2010

6.00

Something is bad wrong as everyday Americans fight to protect their air, water and blood from pollution.

2010

Poison in the Rockies

Poison in the Rockies 1990

1

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

1990

Birds of America

Birds of America 2022

7.20

In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi River. Audubon was also a gifted painter. His life’s work in the form of the classic book ‘Birds of America’ is an invaluable documentation of both extinct species and an entire world of imagination. During the same period, early industrialisation and the expulsion of indigenous peoples was in full swing. The gorgeous film traces Audubon’s path around the South today. The displaced people’s descendants welcome us and retell history, while the deserted vistas of heavy industry stretch across the horizon. The magnificent, broad images in Jacques Loeuille’s atmospheric, modern adventure reminds us at the same time how little - and yet how much - is left of the nature that Audubon travelled around in. His paintings of the colourful birdlife of the South still belong to the most beautiful things you can imagine.

2022

De La Mar

De La Mar 2022

1

The inhabitants of the Humboldt Archipelago have a strong connection to their territory and the sea, which will become the main driving force to defend the nature and biodiversity of the area against the threat posed by the installation of the Dominga mining project and the Cruz Grande mega port.

2022

Poison City

Poison City 2003

1

Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial chemicals (and in Soviet times, chemical weapons) employ a quarter of the 300,000 residents in a city where life expectancy has fallen to 42-47 years, the death rate is 2.6 times higher than the birth rate, and the men are close to impotence. Reporter Tim Samuels recorded a series of in-depth interviews with the inhabitants of Dzerzhinsk for the Correspondent strand, revealing what life is like for the beleaguered populace.

2003

Whose Dominion?

Whose Dominion? 2017

1

Whose Dominion? The Pollution of Cleveland County takes a very brief look at some of the environmental issues in Cleveland County, N.C.

2017

Cumulonimbus

Cumulonimbus 1970

1

A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.

1970

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog 1993

7.00

Sonic, Tails, Princess Sally, and a band of freedom fighters battle to overthrow Dr. Robotnik, a despotic dictator who conquered their home planet Mobius years ago, and rules it as a polluted industrial dystopia.

1993

Green Warriors

Green Warriors 2021

8.00

Martin Boudot, investigative journalist, investigates major environmental scandals around the world: river contamination, air pollution, radioactivity, illegal exploitation of resources, toxic waste...

2021

Automobile: Ride and Fall

Automobile: Ride and Fall 2025

8.00

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of them. Countries go to war over fuel shortages, and automobiles are at the core of a global ecological crisis. Today, the history of automobile has hit its climax. How did we get here? How did the invention of a single machine reorganize how we work, revolutionize our lifestyles, transform our landscapes, trigger global crises and wreak havoc with the equilibrium of our planet? This documentary series explores the creation and meteoric development of an unprecedented object - the automobile - and its role in mankind’s wild race toward progress.

2025