Robert Redford
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Celebrating 30 years of "The Natural," one of the best sport films ever made, directed by Academy Award Winning Director Barry Levinson, and starring Academy Award Winners Robert Redford and Kim Basinger, with never before seen footage and exclusive interviews with most of the original cast and crew.
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New Environmentalists volume 8
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Profiles 6 individuals: In New York Attorney Helen Slottje helped towns across New York State protect themselves from fracking, when she utilized a clause in the state constitution that empowers municipalities to make local land use decisions. In India Ramesh Agrawal organized indigenous people to demand their right to information and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coalmines in Chhattisgarh. In Russia zoologist, Suren Gazaryan...
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New Environmentalists volume 4
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Profiles 6 individuals: In Michigan a family farmer boldly exposed the polluting practices of livestock factory farms, gaining the attention of the EPA; In Cuba a scientist has shifted from chemical dependence to organic practices of sustainable farming. In Costa Rica, an activist starts a movement to stop shark finning. In Cambodia, a visionary created solutions for protecting both the rural farmer's fields and the endangered Asian elephants who...
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New Environmentalists volume 3
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Profiles 6 individuals: In the USA an Appalachian native battles Mountaintop Removal coal mining. In Indonesia, a woman helped solve Bali's waste management crisis. In Suriname, two indigenous leaders organized their communities against logging on native lands. In Bangladesh; an environmental lawyer won a decisive victory against her country's powerful "ship breaking" industry; in Russia a scientist has created an educational network to help identify...
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New Environmentalists volume 9
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Profiles 6 individuals: In Haiti – Jean Weiner is reviving his country's marine life by restoring the coral reefs and by planting over a million mangrove trees to combat deforestation and coastal degradation. In Myanmar Myint Zaw launched a series of art exhibits to halt construction of the Myitsone Dam on the treasured Irrawaddy River. In Honduras Bertha Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people to wage a grassroots protest that successfully...
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New Environmentalists volume 7
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Profiles 6 individuals: In South Africa an activist is leading a campaign against fracking that threatens the Karoo, where sparse desert and majestic mountains converge to create an agriculture heartland and flourishing wildlife reserves. In Iraq Azzam Alwash has taken on the challenge of restoring the Mesopotamia Marshes to their original splendor. In Italy an elementary school teacher began a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators...
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New Environmentalists volume 6
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Profiles 6 individuals: In Russia an activist is mobilizing her fellow Russian citizens to reroute a highway that would destroy Moscow's Khimki Forest. In Argentina a local women stops the indiscriminate spraying of toxic agrochemicals on the soy fields surrounding her barrio and across the region. In the Arctic Garden an Inupiat indigenous leader takes aim at the threat of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Sea which threatens her people and the...
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New Environmentalists volume 2
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Profiles 6 individuals: In Belgium a naturalist designed and runs his country's first national park. In Mexico a farm leader helps his people use ancient technology to grow their traditional crop, while preserving water and preventing erosion. In Siberia, a local biologist helps protect Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake. In Ecuador two men force a huge multi-national oil company to clean up 20 years of environmental damage; in Mozambique,...
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New Environmentalists volume 5
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Profiles 6 individuals: In Germany community activists respond to the Chernobyl nuclear accident by creating the country's first successful, cooperatively owned, renewable power company. In Texas, an entrepreneur returns home to his environmentally damaged coastal community to fight a major industrial polluter. In Zimbabwe when the rhino population in his homeland is threatened by heavily armed poachers, a visionary bush pilot moves the animals hundreds...
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New Environmentalists volume 1
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Profiles 6 individuals protecting boreal forests. In Canada, creating a sustainable community development program restoring wildlife while transforming a poverty-stricken area. In Africa; protecting Mongolia's precious water resources from unregulated mining; protecting the rights of indigenous peoples from the devastating effects of logging and mining in Peru; halting construction on an illegally-approved oil pipeline through on Irish land; and ending...
11) Lions for Lambs
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Inspired by their idealistic professor, Dr. Mallery, to do something meaningful with their lives, Arian and Ernest join the military and ship out to Afghanistan. Their experiences tie together two separate but related stories. In California, Mallery tries to break through to a disaffected student, while in Washington, D.C., a presidential hopeful prepares to give a journalist the scoop of a lifetime
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Hollywood favorites Robert Redford (Indecent Proposal) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) sizzle together in this acclaimed story of heated passion and burning ambition! When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater (Pfeiffer) tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice (Redford) will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news...and she teaches him how to love again! But with her rise from local...
14) The Great Gatsby
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Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), then lost her to a rich boy. But now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy...and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back.
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New Environmentalists volume 9
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Zambia and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) represent two divergent strategies on environmentalism. Meet people from both countries and learn of the successes, failures, and sacrifices they experienced seeking environmental justice.
16) The Candidate
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Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars as Bill McKay, an idealistic young activist who agrees to run for elected office, hoping to use the campaign to bring important issues into the public debate. But the truth gets buried as the political process transforms McKay into The Candidate.When McKay's honesty and integrity captivate the electorate's attention, his long-shot candidacy attracts the attention of the party machine, and McKay must decide...
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New Environmentalists volume 8
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What we take from and put back into the Earth reflects the very nature of who we are as human beings. Meet people from Washington, Liberia, Macedonia, the Cook Islands, Mongolia, and Chile who believe end results depend upon how we begin.
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New Environmentalists volume 4
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Biodiversity is a central component to the successful operation of Earth's natural systems. Meet people from Haiti, Myanmar, Honduras, Kenya, Canada, and Scotland who spend time and energy securing healthy local environmental regulations.
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New Environmentalists volume 5
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There are places on Earth worthy of absolute preservation and protection for all future generations. Meet people from Puerto Rico, Maryland, Peru, Tanzania, Slovakia, and Cambodia who all share an abiding belief in a sacred, healthy Earth.
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New Environmentalists volume 3
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Our natural environments are intrinsically more valuable than any grand visions of wealth created using methods detrimental to the Earth. Meet people in New York, India, Russia, Peru, Sumatra, and South Africa who favor health over profit.