This intimate portrait focuses on Chris’ remarkable recovery of movement and his constant fight to fully regain his mobility. Following Chris closely over many months of treatment and public campaigning for funds for stem cell research, this film was completed shortly before his death and shows his struggle to keep his hope alive. Sadly, Chris died before his most fervent wish could come to pass. What emerges through this film is a portrait of an intelligent, determined, candid and outspoken man who was able to maintain his sense of humour in the face of adversity. His inspiring personality will shine through as you follow his unpredictable, emotional journey.

Explore the miraculous potential and frightening possibilities of genetic cloning as National Geographic’s cameras reveal the history, controversy, and cutting edge developments of a scientific breakthrough capable of literally changing the destiny of the human race. Witness the remarkable effects of the cloning revolution and explore the ‘’brave new world’’ of the human cloning industry and its inherent controversy. 

Lisa was raised in the right part of town, she went to the right schools, had the right friends. But somewhere along the way something went terribly wrong. At age 37 Lisa is an estranged mother of one, and a Crack addict who prostitutes herself to help support her drug habit. Get a glimpse into the harsh reality and chaotic lifestyle of drug addiction. This film will force you to examine all of your stereotypes about the addicted - in a sometimes shocking way.

Today in the United States there are an estimated 46 million people—that is almost one in six Americans—who don’t have health insurance. The numbers continue to grow as health insurance costs rise and more Americans find health insurance impossible to afford. In this important hour-long special, Peter Jennings’ last documentary for ABC News, reports on how this country’s broken health insurance system is threatening America’s families, America’s businesses, and America’s health.

Mr. Jennings reports from hospitals in Houston, Texas, where the large numbers of uninsured people who flood the emergency rooms are affecting the emergency care everyone gets - the insured and uninsured alike.

Mr. Jennings also goes inside the once mighty General Motors, the largest private sector provider of health insurance in the nation. He reveals how the uniquely American system of employer-based health insurance really works, and why GM - in part because of this system—is struggling today to remain competitive in the global market.

Though Americans often blame insurance companies for the rapidly increasing cost of health insurance, Mr. Jennings explains why health insurance costs are really going up and how we all bear some responsibility. We use more health care than ever before and Mr. Jennings asks the question that very few are asking - does all this money that we spend actually result in better medical care?

Our health insurance system, with its growing inequities and spiraling costs is revealed as a broken system, in desperate need of comprehensive reform.

Tobacco is still the number one killer in our nation. But as Peter Jennings reveals in this examination of the “tobacco wars,” the responsibility lies not only with tobacco companies but also with the government and prominent public health advocates who squandered an historic opportunity to settle with the industry, regulate tobacco, and save millions of lives.

PETER JENNIGS REPORTING: FROM THE TOBACCO FILE: STORIES OF BETRAYAL AND NEGLECT tells the story of a rare chance to reign in big tobacco at a time when the industry was under siege from government officials who wanted to regulate it and state Attorneys General who were suing it.

The story starts in the mid-1990s, when Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore sued the tobacco industry to recover hundreds of billions of dollars spent by states caring for sick smokers. Publicly the tobacco companies were confident and still denying that smoking was dangerous or addictive. But privately they were terrified and believed their very survival was at stake. They were quietly looking for a way to settle. In a rare interview with a senior Philip Morris official, Jennings goes behind the scenes to explore what was happening within this very worried industry.

Moore’s lawsuit resulted in an historic settlement with the tobacco companies that would have changed how they made and marketed cigarettes. But some of tobacco’s enemies were skeptical, concerned that the agreement went too easy on the industry. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE investigates how support for that settlement—and a subsequent, potentially landmark bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain—fell apart , ironically, under attack from public health activists like former FDA commissioner David Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

Jennings looks at the fallout from the failure to pass legislation that would have changed the tobacco industry forever. Today both the states and the federal government have all but abandoned efforts to prevent smoking or regulate the nation’s most deadly product. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE examines how states have misspent money intended to reduce youth smoking and how the federal government continues to regulate the nation’s most deadly product—reveals a nation’s neglect that continues to cost millions and millions of lives.

Click Q&A above for an interview with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.

In SUPER SIZE ME, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a “McDonald’s only” diet for thirty days straight.  His Sundance award-winning feature is as entertaining as it is horrifying as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.

“For 30 days, Morgan Spurlock consumed nothing but food from McDonald’s, an experiment in bad living that frames a jaunty critique of junk gastronomy and corporate power. Like a thinner, less aggressive Michael Moore, the director talks to consumers, experts and food-industry flacks, weaving alarming statistics about rampant obesity with visits to the doctor and double-quarter-pounder-with-cheese combo meals. The film is an entertaining statement of the obvious, though its big questions — do corporations serve our need or enslave our bodies and soul?, are public health problems caused by capitalist rapacity or personal choice? — are not as simple as Mr. Spurlock would have us believe.” — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.  This well-researched documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, the widow of the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, takes an in-depth look at the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decades.
This film examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge, multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food systems but also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, offering solutions like organic and sustainable agriculture as alternative food sources.