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"Hot Coffee" and "Gasland" are now available on Netflix for streaming
I noticed yesterday that Hot Coffee and Gasland are now on Netflix. For those who may not be familiar with the documentaries here are some summaries from the IMDB site:
Hot Coffee:
How the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and similar cases were exploited as part of a right wing crusade to weaken civil justice.
Gasland:
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower. Written by Sundance Film Festival
