Today is World Water Day. This year's theme revolves around the importance of managing and protecting groundwater resources.

Included here are a selection of titles from the Bullfrog catalog that explore this theme, from profiles of grassroots efforts to preserve and protect water resources in communities across the U.S. to elegant and expansive explorations of the lakes, rivers, tributaries and geologic processes that supply our fresh water.

These films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities.
Thirst For Justice follows Janene Yazzie as she searches for the source of contamination in her son’s school’s water in Sanders, Arizona. She suspects drinking uranium contaminated water from the Church Rock dam spill caused her ovarian cancer. Armed with a Geiger counter she begins investigating radioactive waste on the Navajo Nation and finds areas hotter than evacuation zones in Chernobyl. When the epic movement for water justice ignites in Standing Rock, Janene is compelled to join. There she meets Flint water activist Nayyirah Shariff, and their struggles converge.
Produced by Public Herald, an investigative news nonprofit co-founded by Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman, and narrated by actor Mark Ruffalo, Triple Divide Redacted is an award-winning investigation of the impacts of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds: the "Triple Divide" region in northern Pennsylvania's Potter County, a source of drinking water to millions of Americans. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted residents, the film incorporates five years of cradle-to-grave investigations that reveal how Pennsylvania's DEP regulators and shale gas industry representatives have colluded to keep widespread water contamination under wraps.
Providing Earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and its third largest industrial economy, the Great Lakes are a unique and precious resource under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporating water and profound apathy. Waterlife provides an unprecedented view of an incredible ecosystem rarely seen by the city dwellers who form most of its population. From the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, viewers are carried through marshes and pipes, across pounding waves and through thunder clouds on a journey that follows the cascade of Great Lakes water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean.
Water on the Table intimately captures the public face of international water activist Maude Barlow, as well as the unscripted woman behind the scenes. The camera shadows her life on the road in the United States in Canada over the course of one year—including an eye-opening visit to Alberta's tar sands. More than a portrait of an activist, Water on the Table presents several dramatic opposing arguments to Barlow's stance that water is a human right. Barlow's critics are policy and economic experts who argue water is no different than any other resource, and that the best way to protect freshwater is to privatize it.
All films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities.

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Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of documentary films about the environment in the United States. We define "environment" broadly, and our catalog includes programs on disability studies, energy, agriculture, performing arts, women's studies, genetics, social psychology, cultural anthropology, community regeneration, economics, ethics, and conflict resolution.