不治の病に犯された少年と、大きな体に似合わず心優しくおだやかな少年が仲良くなり、二人三脚で成長してゆく感動のヒューマン・ドラマ。体は大きいが繊細すぎる性格のために引っ込み思案になってしまった少年マックス。ある日、彼の家の隣にケビンという少年の一家が引っ越してくる。ケビンはマックスにない快活さを持ち備えていた。二人は急速に仲良くなり、学校のいじめっ子たちも協力して撃退する。だが、ケビンは余命いくばくもない体だった。
Unraveling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical — now found in the blood of 99.7% of Americans — into the local drinking water supply.
A shocking political expose, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government.
Why is the price of a banana from Central America only a third of that of an apple from Michigan? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US, and uncovering the violence that has enabled the banana industry for more than a century.
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's world.
Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.