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Revolutions A Journey to the Maya Heartland' examines some of the parallels that exist between the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization in the central lowlands of the Peten jungle in the eighth century AD and the environmental effects we are confronting as a result of Global Climate Change today in our own culture, both in North America - and in particular the American Southwest - as well as in Latin America. Beyond this, 2012 examines some of the wider effects of climate change, from changing demographics to political and economic disruptions, to the very personal issues of truth and justice and how they are playing themselves out in people's lives today.

A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.

No Safe Spaces contends that identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America.

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Rosa lives in the lush rain forest of southern Colombia, one of the world's most bio diverse regions. But to survive, she and thousands of peasants are destroying the jungle to grow coca, the shiny green leaf that is the raw material for cocaine. Consumption of this drug in the first world is fueling a drug trade that puts precious environmental resources at risk and keeps peasants like Rosa under the constant threat of the law and the lawless. Meanwhile, scientists concur that the Amazon rain forest is key to controlling climate change.

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.