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Veins in the Gulf

In their documentary “Veins in the Gulf,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana’s wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.

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Veins in the Gulf

In their documentary “Veins in the Gulf,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana’s wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.

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Block Four: Chernobyl 2011

Local filmmakers Julian Hayda and Father Myron Panchuk document the squatters living within the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the failed reactor’s crumbling container, in their documentary “Block Four: Chernobyl 2011,” screening Thursday 4/28 at the Chicago Cultural Center.

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Vanishing of the Bees

A third of the U.S. food supply depends on commercial beekeepers for pollination, but since 2006 the bees have been disappearing at staggering rates worldwide. The phenomenon, known as colony collapse disorder, remains unexplained, though one study attributes it to a combination of viral and fungal infections. One of several documentaries on the subject, Vanishing […]