01 Jan 2009
A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.
When Lambs Become Lions
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.
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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai 
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Rhino Rescue 
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