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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Lengendary Yankee log-driver Noel lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy ... but then, he'd never met Noel lord.
2) Damnation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers"--Container.
3) Hoover Dam
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Comprehensive chronicle of the Hoover Dam, one of the most ambitious engineering projects of all time. Shows the footage that documents every step of the monumental work of taming the Colorado to provide water and power to California, Nevada and Arizona. Includes interviews with the men who worked on the dam.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the African savannah, all of the animals are wondering what happened to the water. Billy the Meerkat and his best buddy, Socrates the Lion set out in search of water, with the help of their friends Angie the Elephant and Giselle the Giraffe. On their incredible journey to find the water and to save their family and friends, they run into a motley group of animals new to Africa: rooster, polar bear, kangaroo, koala, Tasmanian devil and two turtles,...
5) Northfork
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.
6) Damsharks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After a gruesome shark attack on a fish and game expert in the most unexpected place, an inland river, the local forest ranger, Kate, sets out on a mission to uncover what happened. What she discovers, however, is something far more sinister than she could have ever imagined. A massive storm has washed several bloodthirsty bull sharks into the river and, to make matters worse, they've begun building a dam out of human remains in order to trap their...
8) Wild river
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Montgomery Clift stars as a government agent who must evacuate a small town to make way for a new dam. When an elderly matriarch refuses to leave, Chuck Glover falls in love with her granddaughter, played by Lee Remick.
10) Grand Coulee Dam
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, the film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the project's legacy.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Follows the fortune of two arch enemies as they struggle over the fate of the free-flowing Animas River. Sage Remington, an outrageous, gay, Native American activist, in his fight against the obstruction of the Animas, has pitted himself against the government of his tribe and their powerful gold-old-boy lawyer, Sam Maynes. Their case ends up in the halls of Congress, revealing the peculiar intricacies of Western water, Anglo-Indian relations, and...
12) Wild river
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
A Tennessee Valley Authority administrator must deal with the racial politics of hiring African American workers. He also must evict an old woman from her home, but then he falls in love with her granddaughter.
13) Still life
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives.