Damon Gameau embarks on an experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body. . . . .
Food
The Garden – 2008
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
Foodmatters – 2008
Foodmatters examines how the food we eat can help or hurt our health. Nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists weigh in on topics organic food, food safety, raw foodism, and nutritional therapy. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
Food, Inc. – 2008
The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
King Corn – 2007
Aaron Woolf’s documentary follows eco-acrivists Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis as they track the prevalence of corn in the American diet. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
Black Gold – 2006
An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
Our Daily Bread – 2005
OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
McLibel – 2005
McDonald’s loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
Earthlings – 2005
Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Read more at IMDB.
Food
We Feed The World – 2005
This unsettling documentary from Austria meticulously documents how the mechanisation of modern food production has created a monster. It reveals how the Western agro-industry’s insatiable hunger for yield is creating poorer quality food, mind-boggling wastage, and impoverishing our natural environment and those who work in it. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
The Future of Food – 2004
THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.
Food
The Gleaners & I – 2000
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip. Read more at IMDB or support this site by buying it at Amazon.