Blind Spot

Peak Oil & the Coming Global Crisis

Explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. more...

Codes of Gender

Identity and Performance in Pop Culture

Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape. more...

Plunder

The Crime of Our Time

Exposes the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars and millions of jobs, and investigates the unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market's collapse in fall 2008. more...

Red Moon

Menstruation, Culture & the Politics of Gender

Provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions that have long attached themselves to women's menstruation. more...

Shop 'Til You Drop

The Crisis of Consumerism

Taking aim at fast-lane materialism, this film moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion. more...

The Line

The Line is a powerful, personal narrative about the terrible reality of rape and sexual violence -- and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault is often framed and understood in the wider culture. more...

The Mean World Syndrome

Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear

A new film based on the late George Gerbner's groundbreaking analysis of media influence and media violence. more...