Big River (0:26) 2009

Big River is the companion piece to King Corn. King Corn is a documentary which follows the two directors as they plant and harvest an acre of corn in Greene, Iowa. Big River follows the same two directors as they follow the run-off from their farm into the local river, then to the Mississippi, and finally into the Gulf of Mexico. The directors are examining how the herbicides and pesticides are changing the quality of the drinking water and then the fishing industry in the Gulf. This is a short documentary with information about our environment that we should be paying heed. Farmers in Iowa are showing increased cancer rates and there is a fish dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe we should be thinking of ways we can more safely increase food production without harming man and the environment. I viewed this documentary through Netflix streaming.