In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

2021

English

7.7

♡ 17

58%

Jon Clay Director

David Attenborough as Self

Cheikh Mbow as Self - Future Africa: University of Pretoria

Carlos Nobre as Self - Institute of Advanced Studies University of Säo Paulo

Veerabhadran Ramanathan as Self - University of California at San Diego

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

Revolution

2012

English

7.3

♡ 1

40%

environmental conservation

Family

overpopulation

revolution

Rob Stewart Director

Boris Worm as Self

Bill McKibben as Self

Van Jones as Self

Lester Brown as Self - Earth Policy Institute

A follow-up to Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater, this continues his journey of discovery to find out that what he thought was a shark problem is actually a people problem. As Stewart's battle to save sharks escalates, he uncovers grave dangers threatening not just sharks, but humanity. In an effort to uncover the truth and find the secret to saving our own species, Stewart embarks on a life-threatening adventure through 15 countries, over four years in the making. In the past four years the backdrop of ocean issues has changed completely. Saving sharks will be a pointless endeavor if we are losing everything else in the ocean, not just sharks. Burning fossil fuels is releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; changing the oceans, changing atmospheric chemistry and altering our climate.

OtherLife

2017

English

6.2

♡ 25

59%

Ben C. Lucas Director

Hoa Xuande as Coder #1

Tiriel Mora as Dr. Robert Amari

Liam Graham as Jared Amari

Fiona Press as TDA Interviewer

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

Surviving Progress

2011

English

7.4

71%

79%

based on novel or book

Mathieu Roy Director

Margaret Atwood as Self - Author, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Simon Johnson as Self - Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund

Jane Goodall as Self - Primatologist

Stephen Hawking as Self - Theoretical Physicist

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

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