Every week the PICA team gets together and watches a documentary in topics related to sustainability, environmental issues, food justice and more! Check out which documentaries we have previously watched.
Documentaries are a fun and educational way to learn about issues happening in our world today. Not only do documentaries provide objective and factual information but offer us an opportunity to gain different perspectives. Below you will find a list of documentaries that have been watched by our PICA team. We hope this list will provide you with insights for current issues.
Athlete A (2020)
Emotional and physical abuse was actually the norm.
In this documentary reporters from The Indianapolis Star who expose Dr. Larry Nassar's sexual abuse of young gymnasts. This documentary can be found on Netflix.
Kiss the Ground (2020)
With good soil practices, we could reverse global warming.
Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world (kisstheground.com). This documentary can be found on Netflix.
There's Something in the Water (2019)
You can't heal in the same environment that made you sick.
Community activists embark on a crusade to protect the environment from landfills and pollutants in Nova Scotia. This documentary can be found on Netflix.
Knock Down The House (2019)
For one of us to make it, a hundred of us have to try.
A young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner's daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada, and a registered nurse in Missouri build a movement of insurgent candidates to challenge powerful incumbents in Congress. One of their races will become the most shocking political upsets in recent American history. This documentary can be found on Netflix.
Human Nature (2019)
Mother nature gave us something that is richer than our imagination.
A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future. (Description provided from https://wondercollaborative.org/human-nature-documentary-film/).
The Great Hack (2019)
It’s a social-validation feedback loop … you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.
Exploring how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolise the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as uncovered by journalist Carole Cadwalladr. This documentary can be found on Netflix.