Goldcorp Inc. arrives in a remote village in Guatemala. Soon follows blown up mountains, despoiled water supplies and broken promises over jobs. As the gold frenzy brings in a profits bonanza for the company, the community launches a powerful resistance struggle. Dynamic and beautiful quality, this film provides a powerful look at the reality of what it means when gold miners dig into the 3rd world.

Serra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.

"When the body of well-liked and respectable Glenda Roberts is discovered at the bottom of a former slate mine--now a busy tourist attraction--pandemonium erupts in the North Wales town of Llanelen. Penny Brannigan finds herself drawn into the investigation when jars of her house-brand hand cream are found among counterfeit inventory Glenda and her sister were selling. Police are convinced that the mine operator --whose asthmatic son suffered an almost-fatal...

This episode of The Green Interview features Santiago Manuin Valera, spokesman for the Awajún indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2009, he was shot eight times-and almost killed-by the Peruvian army during an epic confrontation over industrial exploitation of indigenous lands by foreign oil companies, related to a free trade agreement with the United States. In this Green Interview, Valera discusses protesters' fight with the army, and...

Under the shadow of the Cordillera del Condor mountains live the Awajun and Wampis peoples, a proud, warrior nation, never conquered by the Incas or the Spanish. Today, Peruvian and Canadian mining companies aim to set up a gold mine on land these natives say is their traditional territory. In fact, the Awajun had an agreement for the establishment of a National Park along the Cordillera that would protect their land. But Peru's President gave half...