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1) Dark waters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
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Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Attica: Demanding improvments in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Widowed, broke, and adrift, farmer Fred Stern finds a new purpose in life when he learns that a multi-national oil company has been polluting his water. But as his crusade against the posers that spill out of the courtroom and into his personal life, Fred must find a way to avoid the ruin of his farm, his family, and his dreams. It pulls back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.
5) Safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 739
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what cannot be seen.
6) The Lorax
Description
Presents Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax," a story that illustrates the consequences of pollution and shares the tale of the Lorax, who tried to protect his forest home from the Once-ler and his destructive ways.