Movies: Environmental documentary

Featuring Clive Oppenheimer, professor of volcanology, this film explores the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on earth...

The documentary chronicling Oly Rush's world record attempt to swim non-stop around Grand Cayman. All in the name of raising awareness for plastic pollution....

In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowstorm to ever take place in the city. Everything was recorded by Alberto Botelho in this short documentary....

This documentary captures a deeply personal journey by Argentinian actor and musician, Nicolás Pauls, to the Uruguayan coast. This area hosts two of the world's foremost sea lion colonies. Isla de lobos and Cabo Polonio. A famed sanctuary for hundred...

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As Cyclone Remal approached, we arrived in Debpur village of Dhankhali Upazila, Bangladesh. What struck us immediately was the stark contrast between the official warnings of impending devastation and the villagers' apparent lack of preparedness. Ove...

To solve the problem of styrofoam, an adventure of beach cleanup in Penghu began. It started with a two-person studio and expanded to include many environmentalists. As they set foot on the small offshore islands to clean up beaches, challenges arose...

During their first flight between the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, thousands of ringed storm petrels have fallen victim to light pollution caused by the city and industry. Biologist Jorge Páez is dedicated to the rescue and conservation of t...

A sea-turtle grew tumors that are believed to be human induced. Experts talk about their relationship with turtles like her and call audiences to action....

Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. When a fracking mega-site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a concerned mother fights to try and stop it...

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great author Edward Abbey ...

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A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongside eight other activists for opposing the environmental damage done in their oil-rich homeland, Ogoni....

The Film “Life with Vultures” is about the efforts of a handful of NGOs and Government Agencies to save the only remaining Vulture species on the island of Cyprus, and by extension several other species of Birds and other wild animals...

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The much sought-after, two-letter web domain suffix of the title is examined as both a form of capital and an emblem of a country on the brink of a climate-induced catastrophe in this simultaneously humorous and illuminating essay film centered on th...

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The Battle At Our Shores is a documentary following over a period of a year the ground swell of opposition that has arisen over the first inshore/coastal oil and gas exploration licenses to be given out in Canada in the Province of Nova Scotia. Most ...

An open invitation to look at the sky....