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Bill et Jo Harding, deux chasseurs de tempête sur le point de divorcer, doivent s'unir pour créer un système d'alerte météorologique évolué, en se plaçant dans la ligne de mire de tornades extrêmement violentes.

Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.

Footage from Michael Moore's 60-city tour of college campuses and other venues showcases what the filmmaker calls "the birth of a new political generation.

One skateboarder will go for broke to beat the odds and inspire their town.

Cora Jenkins and her parents are the only African-Americans in their community in 1920s Iowa, supported only by Cora's wages as housekeeper to the wealthy Studevants. When tragedy strikes, will Cora speak the truth...with consequences?

"THE DUAL" showcases the 8-time consecutive NCAA Champion Iowa Hawkeyes, coached by the iconic Dan Gable vs rival Iowa State Cyclones, coached by 26-year-old Jim Gibbons. A look back through interviews with the athletes, coaches and media.

Uranium Derby is a feature-length documentary about a young woman's look into an experiment gone wrong-the American nuclear experiment. This film depicts the manner in which toxic nuclear waste, generated and collected in a few specific places, was allowed to spread to numerous sites around a small Midwestern university town and subsequently the country. The story, centered in Ames, Iowa, begins with a curious native filmmaker (Brittany Prater) casually looking into her hometown's highly secretive involvement in the Manhattan Project during the 1940s. The historical role of Ames in the production of materials for the first atomic bomb is portrayed in archival footage featuring two important involved scientists of the time (Dr. Harley Wilhelm and Dr. Frank Spedding). In addition, interviews with present-day physicists (Marv Anderson and Al Bevolo), a historian (Gloria Betcher), and the elderly spouse of a laboratory worker (Elizabeth Smith) also help present the story. The main character arc in the film is that of the Prater (the director) as she uncovers information that changes her perception of her hometown. Interrupting this history of World War II heroics is Dr. Johanshir Golchin, an Iranian- American environmental engineer who recalls coming across a document in 1992 entitled "The Tiger Team Report" during his time as an environmental regulator. This top-secret report by the US Department of Energy (DOE), detailed ten sites in the city of Ames that were contaminated with radioactive waste. After reading the report, Golchin's primary concern was for the site of the former Ames Waste Water Treatment Plant, where a youth sports complex was constructed. The filmmaker (Prater) visits an Ames neighborhood that suffered from a "cancer epidemic" in the 1990s. As she becomes further drawn into her research, she learns about the science behind different types of ionizing radiation, and the history of nuclear weapons development and production by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) after WWII. Physicist, Al Bevolo speaks to Prater about problems that the DOE (formerly AEC) has had with the private contracting firms it hired for toxic cleanup, and these firms' tendency to stall indefinitely the cleanup at Superfund sites. The story of the controversy and cover-up concerning the youth sports complex unfolds through both archival video footage and Dr. Golchin's present-day recollections. VHS footage of a town meeting reveals that the Ames Laboratory (run by the DOE) at one point flushed high-level radioactive waste down city's sanitary- sewer drains. This waste traveled to the treatment plant where it was eventually mixed with sludge that was given away to citizens as fertilizer for private gardens and crops. An archival interview with Harley Wilhelm (Ames leader in the Manhattan Project) confirms that most of the toxic waste generated during the war was buried in the woods near the "cancer cluster" neighborhood discussed earlier. After this site became publicly revealed about fifty years after the fact, it was hastily cleaned up and the waste sent to New Jersey. Much like a chain reaction (or fission), the film starts small with one town and builds to its national story and its unintended environmental consequences. The film follows the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as it evolves over time from its roots in the making of the bomb, to further weapons and energy production after World War II, eventually changing its name to the Department of Energy (DOE). The process that was invented in Ames was later taken over by Ohio Lead Company in Fernald, Ohio near Cincinnati. The aquifer at this site is now contaminated with radioactive waste.

Young Ellen is given away in a back-room poker den at age 5. She comes of age and goes on a search for her biological father Lee, in a Chicago Gambling hideaway.

Mars used to be a blue planet, like Earth. What happened to it? Blue Planet Red is a groundbreaking Mars documentary that presents the evidence for water, life, pyramids, ruins, and global cataclysm that destroyed the planet.

Make It Stop is a documentary exposing the implications of domestic violence and abuse. Where most documentaries on the subject follow a particular victim, shelter or advocacy group; Make It Stop focuses on the perpetuation of the cycle, societal perceptions of abuse and prevention. While interviews with victims/ survivors and abusers are included in the film, these elements are used more as reference points for the the larger discussion probing the underlying causes of domestic violence, why domestic violence continues to be a pervasive problem and possible solutions.

Opportunities for young women in the field of home economics.

Ovid's "Metamorphosis" re-told as an extended music video.

This industrial safety film demonstrates how being distracted, or in a bad mood, can contribute to accidents.

Two years after the end of World War II, many people in France and Italy were still ill-fed. Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson decided to launch a program that would help feed those still hungry in these countries and other places in western Europe. It would not be a government program like the Marshall Plan. Rather, it would be a people-to-people effort, with contributions from individuals. Pearson met with the Association of American Railroads, steamship lines, leaders of labor and agricultural groups, radio and the press, and the motion picture industry. He persuaded them to publicize the program and to donate their time and facilities to transport the foodstuffs that would be collected. The result was the Friendship Train. This short film documents the Friendship Train's trip from Hollywood across the country to New York City, as well as the initial delivery of food in France and Italy. The journey began on October 27, 1947 and ended in New York City on November 19. When the train pulled out of Hollywood, it had eight freight cars of cargo. At various stops along the route, the train was met by cheering crowds, and cars would be added to the train. When the train left Chicago it was split, with the New York Central Railroad going through northern New York state and the Pennsylvania Railroad going through Pennsylvania directly to New York City. At journey's end, there were 270 cars filled with food supplies for Europe. At the end, the cargo was loaded onto ships bound for Europe, and the first ships arrived in France and Italy in late December 1947.

Sisters Janice and Carol are trying to decide which classes to take next semester. Janice wants to take home economics, which leaves Carol stunned. "Why home ec?" she asks. Carol proceeds to take her to Miss Jenkins, the home ec teacher, who explains the virtues of learning cooking, sewing, and shopping ("present-day textiles cannot be judged with confidence just by casual examination"). Janice is convinced that her choice is the right one.

Set against the Iowa farmlands, "Knee High" follows Calvin Melbourne as he struggles to keep hold of the reins to the family farm while still making time for his young son Avery.

An insider look into the college experience.

Follow the Kansas Jayhawks and Turner Gill through their weekly struggles and triumphs in the world of NCAA Football.

"Shock" was a hosted horror movie show with "The Mad Man" presenting movies in Ames, Iowa, beginning 8 February 1958.

Grace McCunn, at age 10, was diagnosed with chronic daily migraines and spent several days at a children's hospital. When she left, she was determined to give back. What started as a lemonade stand, turned into thousands of dollars in philanthropy. This is her story.

American Pork takes a closer look at the pig industry in the United States and especially modern breeding practices. The film traces of the life of a pig from sperm to sausage and stops on the way to look at our contact with pigs and what it means to eat pork.

MARRIED IN SPANDEX is part road movie, part political documentary, part performance art and, utterly and unquestionably, all love story.

A tramp clown retires from the circus and receives an old jack-in-the-box as a gift from fellow clowns. A poetic exploration of aging, identity and transformation. Silent, shot on black and white Super 8, with an original score by Seattle cult musician Jason Webley.