This Changes Everything (2015)

Director: Avi Lewis 
Run time: 90 min. 
Call number:  HC79.E5 T48 2015

"Serving as a visual companion to narrator Naomi Klein's book, this is a survey of international activism in the face of those environmental inconvenient truths. It travels from Alberta's Tar Sands to the South India site of a proposed power plant to financially strapped Halkidiki, Greece, to smog-choked Beijing. . . . Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future."
—Michael Rechtshaffen, L.A. Times (full review here)

The Last Colony (2015)

Director: Juan Agustín Márquez

Run time: 92 min.

Call Number: F1971 .L37 2015  
 

"For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a polarizing debate on the status issue that has been front and center of the island's political discourse. Puerto Ricans constantly ponder the three options of Statehood, Independence and Commonwealth. Juan Agustin Marquez brings the status debate to the people of the United States, Congress and the President, asking this century old question: Will there be a change in status in America's Last Colony?"

—Publisher's description

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2015)

Director: Nicholas Mross
Run Time: 96 min.
Call Number: HG1710 .R566 2015

“'The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin' explains what bitcoins are in plain English. It begins with Daniel Mross, a programmer in Pittsburgh who builds computers to 'mine' bitcoins, the virtual currency that was introduced in 2009 and, in theory, provides an alternative to the banking system. . . .[An] entertaining portrait of the unshakable optimism that governs what’s been called a financial Wild West."
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times (Full review here)

The Storm Makers (2015)

Director: Guillaume Suon
Run Time: 66 min.

Call Number: HQ281 .S76 2015  

"Featuring brutally candid testimony, The Storm Makers is a chilling exposé of Cambodia’s human trafficking underworld and an eye-opening look at the complex cycle of poverty, despair and greed that fuels this brutal modern slave trade. More than half a million Cambodians work abroad and a staggering number of these have been sold as slaves. Most are young women, held prisoner and forced to work in horrific conditions, sometimes as prostitutes, in Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan."

—Publisher’s description (more here)

 

American Native (2015)

Director: Steven Oritt
Run Time: 78 min.

Call Number: E184.R3 A4 2015

"Thirty miles from New York City, tucked away in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey, lives a group of indigenous people shrouded in mystery and discrimination, fighting for acceptance as Native Americans…The Ramapough Lenape Indians. American Native exposes this group’s fight for respect as Native Americans, examining their efforts to gain recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the private interests that may have colluded behind the scenes to prevent them from doing so. Through expert interviews and unbridled access to the community, the film provides an in-depth look at the group’s complex past, volatile present and endangered future." 
—Publisher's description