Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020). His short films include Two Buckets (2006), Truck Farm (2010), The Melungeons (2013), The Smog of the Sea (2016) and The Measure of a Fog (2017). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in midcoast Maine. For more information about Ian’s films, visit www.wickedelicate.com.

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Ian Cheney Movies

  • 2007
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    King Corn

    King Corn

    6.273 2007 HD

    King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden,...

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  • 2010
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    Big River

    Big River

    5 2010 HD

    Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis have traded their combine for a canoe, and they're setting out to uncover the ecological consequences their little acre of...

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  • 2020
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    The Long Coast

    The Long Coast

    1 2020 HD

    A series of lyrical vignettes illuminates the stories of Maine's seafolk, those whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably connected to the ocean....

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  • 2020
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    Picture a Scientist

    Picture a Scientist

    8.1 2020 HD

    A documentary that looks at systemic sexism faced by women scientists in STEM fields.

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  • 2007
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    King Corn

    King Corn

    6.273 2007 HD

    King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden,...

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  • 2007
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    King Corn

    King Corn

    6.273 2007 HD

    King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden,...

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  • 2012
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    The City Dark

    The City Dark

    7.6 2012 HD

    THE CITY DARK is a feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question -...

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  • 2014
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    The Search for General Tso

    The Search for General Tso

    6.454 2014 HD

    From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the...

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  • 2011
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    Truck Farm

    Truck Farm

    8 2011 HD

    Documentary, comedy - Truck Farm is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney

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  • 2023
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    The Arc of Oblivion

    The Arc of Oblivion

    2 2023 HD

    "The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the...

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  • 2023
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    The Arc of Oblivion

    The Arc of Oblivion

    2 2023 HD

    "The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the...

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  • 2017
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    The Smog of the Sea

    The Smog of the Sea

    1 2017 HD

    The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an...

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  • 2017
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    The Smog of the Sea

    The Smog of the Sea

    1 2017 HD

    The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an...

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  • 2017
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    The Smog of the Sea

    The Smog of the Sea

    1 2017 HD

    The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an...

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  • 2017
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    The Smog of the Sea

    The Smog of the Sea

    1 2017 HD

    The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an...

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  • 2013
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    The Melungeons

    The Melungeons

    1 2013 HD

    Deep in the hills of Appalachia live a mysterious tri-racial people known as Melungeons. For years, the community around Vardy Valley in northeastern...

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  • 2023
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    Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

    Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

    1 2023 HD

    We were never supposed to know her name. She was a poor Irish immigrant who survived famine and war, fire and plague. Unable to save her husband or...

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  • 2024
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    Shelf Life

    Shelf Life

    1 2024 HD

    Quirky and contemplative, this delectable documentary takes us on a surprising global odyssey into the world of cheese, drawing unexpected parallels...

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  • 2015
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    Bluespace

    Bluespace

    1 2015 HD

    BLUESPACE explores the terraforming of Mars and the waterways of New York City. As scientists develop strategies for warming and colonizing the...

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  • 2018
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    The Most Unknown

    The Most Unknown

    6.433 2018 HD

    An epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s...

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  • 2010
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    The Greenhorns

    The Greenhorns

    1 2010 HD

    Armed with a camcorder, farmer-filmmaker-activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years crisscrossing America, meeting and mobilizing a...

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  • 2020
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    The Emoji Story

    The Emoji Story

    9 2020 HD

    Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually becoming their own...

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  • 2020
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    The Emoji Story

    The Emoji Story

    9 2020 HD

    Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually becoming their own...

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  • 2013
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    World Fair

    World Fair

    1 2013 HD

    The future was now at the 1939 World’s Fair – and it is still awesome. From the perspective of the 21st century, it’s hard to...

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  • 2013
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    World Fair

    World Fair

    1 2013 HD

    The future was now at the 1939 World’s Fair – and it is still awesome. From the perspective of the 21st century, it’s hard to...

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  • 2020
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    Picture a Scientist

    Picture a Scientist

    8.1 2020 HD

    A documentary that looks at systemic sexism faced by women scientists in STEM fields.

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  • 2020
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    The Emoji Story

    The Emoji Story

    9 2020 HD

    Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually becoming their own...

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  • 2008
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    The Greening of Southie

    The Greening of Southie

    1 2008 HD

    From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, these Boston tough guy construction workers get a crash course in...

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  • 2025
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    Observer

    Observer

    1 2025 HD

    Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking...

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  • 2025
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    Observer

    Observer

    1 2025 HD

    Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking...

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  • 2025
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    The Last Class

    The Last Class

    1 2025 HD

    American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000...

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