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American Values,
American Wilderness

Brave New West
Caught in the Headlights
El Caballo
End of the Road
Green Rolling Hills
Killing Coyote
 Libby, Montana
Mining Seven-up Pete
Powder River Country
Southbound
Star Spangled Blues
The Element of Doom
The Naturalist
The Paper Colony
This Land is Your Land
This is Nowhere
Varmints
Wildland
Wind River




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Caught in the Headlights!

"From the disempowered, depressed communities of Appalachia to the global deforestation crisis, this is a video account of collusion between government officials and one multinational corporation. Affinity Read more reviews

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Special DVD Collection includes three documentaries about the forests of the Eastern U.S. - Green Rolling Hills, Southbound, and The Paper Colony.

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"A testament to a country lost and confused - a culture still thoughtlessly struggling to preserve even for one last destructive blow, an industry built on exploitation of people and forests." Read full review from the Wild Earth Journal

"Strongly recommended viewing.... An excellent classical case study of environmental injustice in the making."
Read full review by James Elkins, Professor of Law, West Virginia University

"Green Rolling Hills offer compelling testimony that cut-and-run forestry practices have not been a good fit, ecologically, throughout Appalachia."
Read full review by David Havlick, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina

"Interviews with agency officials, local forest activists and often sad-but-true clips of locals allow the viewer to decide the fate of the regenerating forests of West Virginia and, indeed, the entire East." The Highlands Voice

"Doug Hawes-Davis takes a pressing environmental and social issue and digs as objectively as possible to its root." Wild Mountain Times

"High quality art and substance."
Neil Seldman, President, Institute for Local Self Reliance


*** "The video work is excellent. The viewer gets an overview of the history of environmental exploitation of Appalachia." Video Rating Guide for Libraries

"An absolutely fabulous piece of work." Ted Williams, Audubon



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