Fourth in the environmental film series sponsored by Sustainable West Milford, the documentaries "King Corn" and companion film "Big River" explore where our food comes from and its environmental impact.



Using genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers and powerful herbicides, the filmmakers grow an acre of corn in Iowa and try to follow their harvest into the food system raising troubling questions about what we subsidize and how we eat. They learn of topsoil washed out to sea, a "dead zone" in the Gulf and cancer clusters linked to herbicides. Running time 77 minutes.