Who Owns the Past?
This documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe tells the story of how the discovery of a 9000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.
This documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe tells the story of how the discovery of a 9000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.
Waiting to Inhale examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicine in the United States. Twelve states have passed legislation to protect patients who use medical marijuana. Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just a smokescreen for a different agenda-- to legalize marijuana for recreation and profit. What claims are being made, and what are the stakes? Waiting to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patients who have been forever changed by illness-and parents who lost their children to addiction. Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence is there to support the claim that marijuana can alleviate some of the devastating symptoms of AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis? Waiting to Inhale sheds new light on this controversy and presents shocking new evidence that marijuana could hold a big stake in the future of medicine.
The tragedy of the Pequot War through the eyes of Wampishe, a Pequot elder who survived the burning of the Mystic fort as a young boy.