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The River Pare Lorentz USA, 1938, 31 minutes, DVD In The River, Pare Lorentz deploys powerful images, a poetic Pulitzer Prize-nominated script and another score by Virgil Thomson to illustrate the problems of flood control on the Mississippi River and the efforts to correct it. While arguing...

The Final Inch by Irene Taylor Brodsky USA, 2009, 38 minutes, DVD Winner of the 2009 IDA Pare Lorentz Award, 2008 Academy Award Nominee: Best Short Subject Documentary Nearly 50 years after a vaccine for Polio was developed in the United States, the Polio virus still finds refuge in some of...

Charles Guggenheim dedicated the last six months of his life to finishing this film. The Battle of the Bulge began on December 16, 1944. It was the largest and most costly American battle of WWII. Within days, the American 106th Infantry Division had been, for all intents and purposes,...

UnionDocs is proud to host… IDA’s Traveling Road Show: THE PARE LORENTZ FILM FESTIVAL “When a documentary filmmaker commissions original music for a production, he is following Lorentz’s lead. When he shows what man has done to nature and what nature does to man...

This event is co-presented with Shooting People. A captivating view of the indomitable spirit if one of the world’s most fascinating figures, this full-length documentary follows Nelson Mandela from his early days and tribal education to his election as South Africa’s first black president....

In the fall of 1939, Hitler’s murderous wave was sweeping through Eastern Europe. In the face of the Nazi onslaught, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara set about saving thousands of lives. But his struggle was not fought on the battlefields or in war rooms. He used his power as a diplomat to...

America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history.  Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass...

What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have...

Oil on Ice is a documentary that examines the battle over oil development within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a classic struggle in a stunning place, featuring the dramatic wildlife that adapted to this environment and the cultures of the Gwich’in Athabascan Indians and Inupiat...

BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA, 2008, 89 minutes, USA, video. Directed by David Novack, in person for a discussion following the film with Dina Elkan, Events & Marketing Coordinator for Solar One and Judy Harper, Director of Green Edge NYC. Screens with ISLAND OUT OF TIME, 2002, 30...