Blue Vinyl
2002. 60 minutes

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With humor, chutzpah, and a piece of vinyl siding in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold travel to America's vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of the truth about vinyl. Skeptical of her parents’ decision to re-side their home with polyvinyl chloride, Judith Helfand set out to find the truth behind the toxic effects of the material. Helfand examined the physical and emotional fallout of toxic chemical exposure via her own battle with DES-related cancer - and Gold set out to uncover PVC's true human and environmental costs and, ultimately, to find an alternative material that doesn't harm anyone at any step of its lifecycle. Featuring interviews with independent lawyer Billy Bagget; retired PVC workers and widows engaged in a manslaughter trial for vinyl executives in Venice, Italy; residents of Lake Charles, La, the "vinyl capital of the world"; a tense sit-down with a leading spokesperson from the Vinyl Institute; and Helfand's own parents in their Long Island home, BLUE VINYL puts a human and disarmingly humorous face on the dangers and risks posed by polyvinyl chloride.Helfand eventually persuades her very patient parent to replace their blue vinyl, providing that she can find an affordable, healthy alternative - that looks good too.

Borderline Cases: Environmental Matters at the United States - Mexico Border
1999.  65 minutes

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Nearly 2,000 factories maquiladoras have been built in Mexico at the US - Mexico border by companies from the US, Asia and Europe. A maquiladora worker is paid a fraction of US wages. For many years these factories didn't need to comply with costly environmental regulations, with the result that one reporter described the border as "a 2,000 mile long sewer, a vast toxic waste dump." The public debate over NAFTA brought the border's problems to light. Today an era of environmental activism has begun. environmental issues now take an important place in US - Mexico relations. BORDERLINE CASES, a documentary essay, describes the consequences of 25 years of environmental neglect, the results of five years if earnest activity, and promises made for the future. The central focus is the bi-national effort to craft remedies to the border's deteriorating environmental conditions. Filmed in three border regions (Matamoros and Brownsville; Tijuana and San Diego; Ciudad Juarez and El Paso). BORDERLINE CASES shows a range of problems, proposals and projects. It reveals the complexity and magnitude of the task, and it gives a sense of the energy and imagination found in the diverse mix of people of both countries, from grass-roots, government, academia and industry, who are re-thinking traditional notions of borders as they engage in the search for solutions.

China Blue.
2007. 88 minutes

Examines the conditions of a factory in Shaxi, China, where mostly young women workers produce blue jeans for the western market in the age of globalization. Illuminates the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences. "’Made in China’ is often written on the clothes we wear, but under which circumstances are those cheap jeans and T-shirts actually made? China Blue takes a look behind the closed factory gates and gives the anonymous workers a face. Like young Jasmine, who endlessly snips away loose threads from completed jeans destined for the Western market. She is one of 130 million Chinese farmer’s children who exchanged their rural life for a job in a factory: the world’s largest migration wave. Jasmine earns six cents an hour, often works seven days a week, and does not get any extra money for overtime. She shares a room with twelve other girls, and the bland food she is dished up every day is automatically deducted from her meager wages. ... What is new about China Blue is that it makes the Chinese workers the protagonists.

The constant gardener
2006

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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife’s infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

The Corporation
2003. 145 minutes

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Documentary looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance, considering it as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychologist might evaluate an ordinary person.

Divided City: The Road to Racism
1998. 20 minutes

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The death of Cynthia Wiggins sparks a controversial debate about latent racism in Buffalo New York, and its suburbs. Wiggins died when struck by a tractor trailer while crossing a major highway to her job at an upscale, suburban mall. She arrived by bus from an inner-city neighborhood. Racism was charged when investigators discovered that the planners and the malls operator had conspired to prevent the bus route serving the inner city from stopping at the mall to discourage a poor, black clientele.

Drumbeat for Mother Earth
1999. 55 minutes

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How persistent organic pollutants threaten the natural environment and the future of Indigenous peoples.

Fenceline A Company Town Divided
60 minutes

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"Fenceline" follows the struggle of the all-black Diamond Community to make the Shell Chemical Company acknowledge the plant's impact on health in their neighborhood, and to offer a fair relocation plan for the whole community. Shell's public relations firm manages the public awareness campaign carefully while refusing to admit any effect on health by plant operations. Eventually explaining that they want to move the "fenceline" to create a "green belt", once again displacing Norco's African-American neighborhood, Shell offers to buy off half the community.  The documentary reveals the deeper social reality in the struggle between industry and environment in the Mississippi Delta. It is persuasive evidence that in a racially and economically divided America, we don't all breathe the same air.

Frontline: Trouble in Paradise
60 minutes.

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Documentary of a tiny island nation and its clash with US military policy. The coral islands of Palau want to be a nuclear-free zone, but the US wants the option to put a military base there, and that could mean nuclear ships and weapons. Presented by Frontline with Judy Woodruff. From the Network of Public Television Stations

Future conditional
2005. 55 minutes

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Investigates the link between environmental change and the future health of the planet, a future conditional on how we cope with the spread of toxic pollution. In the Arctic, animals and humans are suddenly plagued with rising levels of hazardous chemicals: DDT, PCBs, dioxins, and mercury. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, tariff-free factories have been poisoning the soil and air for more than a decade, and local communities in Tijuana struggle with contaminated water while their backyards have become toxic playgrounds for children. In Uzbekistan, the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea, has become the site of what the United Nations calls man’s greatest ecological disaster. In the United States, a Latin neighborhood in San Diego celebrates an environmental victory, while only 150 miles away, the people of Palm Springs may be living in the path of a toxic storm of dust.

Ghosts of Rwanda
2004. 120 minutes

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Rwanda was supposed to be easy. Ten years ago, when the United Nations sent peacekeepers to this small, Central African nation, most of the policymakers involved believed it would be a straightforward mission that would help restore the UN's battered reputation after failures in Bosnia and Somalia. Few could imagine that, a decade later, Rwanda would be the crisis that still haunts their souls.  This documentary marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide - a state -sponsored massacre in which some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the United States and international community stood by, refusing to intervene. Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors of the slaughter, Ghosts of Rwanda offers groundbreaking, firsthand accounts of the genocide from those who lived it: the diplomats on the scene who thought they were building peace only to see their colleagues murdered; the Tutsi survivors, who recount the horror of seeing their friends and family members slaughtered by Hutu friends and co-workers; and the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda who were ordered not to intervene in the massacre happening all around them. The documentary features interviews with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, form Secretary of State Madeline Albright, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, and former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake as well as haunting interviews with the Hutu killers themselves.

Globalization: Winners & Losers
2000. 42 minutes

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How is business without borders really affecting the world? As Sabeer Bhatia, inventor of Hotmail; Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys; and other industry leaders attest, globalization has raised the standard of living in developing economies through high-tech opportunities, foreign investment, and debt relief. However, Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs and other experts point out that the world market is being exploited through shortsightedness, including the aggressive deployment of genetically modified crops, environmental negligence, and the abuse of NAFTA. This program produced in the aftermath of the WTO protests in Seattle addresses the pros and cons of doing business in the global marketplace.

God Sleeps in Rwanda
2004. 115 minutes

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The 1994 Rwandan Genocide left the country nearly 70% female handing Rwanda's women an extraordinary burden and an unprecedented opportunity. An inspiring story of loss and redemption "God Sleeps in Rwanda" captures the spirit of five courageous women as they rebuild their lives, redefining women's roles in Rwanda society and bringing hope to a wounded nation.

The Golden Cage: Story of California's Farmworkers

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This documentary chronicles the experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California. Traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union from the sixties to its current decline. It shows the tactics used by many agricultural companies to evade using union labor. It gives voice to the farmworkers\growers\migrant doctors and others who talk candidly about the substandard working and living conditions that accompany the harvest.

Maquilapolis: City of factories
2006. 68 minutes

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Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana’s assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social action. Maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the frontier of the global economy. Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory. Incorporates video diaries by the women.

Nova: A Plague On Our Children, Part 1
63 minutes

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Dioxin defoliants\such as Sylvex sprayed on Oregon forests and Agent Orange dropped on Vietnam\have caused almost epidemic miscarriages\cancers and disease. Dioxin manufacturers deny any harm in their products\but independent studies show these herbicides cause serious health problems and theorize that the Dioxin molecules fit into the basic DNA structure\altering it and causing mutations. Though banned for some uses\Dioxins are sprayed today on rangeland and rice fields.

Nova: A Plague On Our Children, Part 2
55 minutes

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Banning toxic chemicals doesn't solve the problems associated with them. Over 90% of all toxic wastes are dumped unsafely\illegally and secretly. In Love Canal\NY\the Hooker Chemical and Plastic Company knew toxic chemicals were leaching out of drums that they had buried on land they had sold for a school playground. Several hundred families were forced to evacuate permanently. An extraordinarily high incidence of birth defects is blamed on dumped Hooker chemicals. This title is in Umatic format, which is no longer available for checkout

Nova: The Toxic Trials
58 minutes

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OVA investigates the controversial story of one community affected by hazardous waste and its lawsuit against a local chemical company. What is new in this landmark case is the variety of scientific\medical\and legal expertise amassed on both sides of the lawsuit. NOVA assesses how the legal and scientific ramifications could affect future cases.

To Protect Mother Earth (Broken Treaty II)
1989. 59 minutes

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Narrated by Robert Redford. The Dann sisters, Carrie and Mary, are two Western Shoshone Indians fighting to keep the government from seizing their ancestral land and conducting underground nuclear tests there. At stake are twenty-four million acres and the survival of an ancient people. Maintaining that the land was legally retained in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, the Shoshones must stake their claim in the Supreme Court.

Toxic Waters

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This is a video on environmental justice. It provides an example of how African-American communities throughout the U.S. suffer from community profiling, illegal dumping of toxic waste, and other forms of environmental racism.

An inconvenient truth

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Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warming have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.

Erin Brockovich
2000. 132 minutes

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Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin’s determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.

Sharing Scarcity: Water And Water Use In Calif

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Outlines the forces that have created the water crisis in California, describes the state’s water resources and briefly reviews proposed approaches to the state’s water problems, including new surface water projects, conservation measures, and water transfers.

The day after tomorrow

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When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.

The Global Assembly Line
1986

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Traveling from Tennessee to Mexico's Northern border, from silicon Valley to the Philippines, THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY LINE takes viewers inside our new global economy. A vivid portrayal of the lives of working women and men in the "free trade zones" of developing countries and North America, as U.S. industries close their factories to search the globe for lower-wage workforces. We take a rare look at the people who are making the clothing we wear and the electronic goods we use--as well as the business decisions behind manufacturing--on the global assembly line.

Clark University Environmental Justice Video Archive