Movies: Environment

  • 2024
    Time to Change

    Time to Change (2024)

    Time to Change

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    Angolan director and screenwriter Pocas Pascoal reminds us that it’s time for a change, proposing through this film a look at colonialism, capitalism, and their impact on global biodiversity. We observe that the destruction of the ecosystem goes back...

    Time to Change
  • 1991
    Mother Earth

    Mother Earth (1991)

    Mother Earth

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    This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings. E...

    Mother Earth
  • 2019
    Eating Up Easter

    Eating Up Easter (2019)

    Eating Up Easter

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    The Rapanui community on Easter Island fights to prevent an environmental collapse due to overwhelming tourism and industrial progress, and and to preserve their cultural traditions....

    Eating Up Easter
  • 2002
    Blue Vinyl

    Blue Vinyl (2002)

    Blue Vinyl

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    With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America's ...

    Blue Vinyl
  • 2022
    Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

    Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco (2022)

    Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

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    Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Witness the Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the ...

    Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco
  • 2006
    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream (2006)

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

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    Documentary telling the story of the rise and fall of a daring experiment into atomic energy as the history of the Dounreay fast reactor is charted by the pioneers involved....

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream
  • 2018
    Acoustic Ocean

    Acoustic Ocean (2018)

    Acoustic Ocean

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    Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, the video centers on the performance of a marine-biologist diver who is using a life-size model of...

    Acoustic Ocean
  • 2019
    You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing

    You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing (2019)

    You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing

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    Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and horticulture. While the French plantation owners on the Caribbean island of Martinique had their gardens laid out, Versailles-style, their enslaved wo...

    You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing
  • 1991
    Children of Chernobyl

    Children of Chernobyl (1991)

    Children of Chernobyl

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    Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernobyl disaster. In children, doctors witnessed a massive increase of recurrent infections, baldness, as well as leukaemia and other cancers....

    Children of Chernobyl
  • 1976
    Voices From the Landscape

    Voices From the Landscape (1976)

    Voices From the Landscape

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    This docucumentary by John Brett conveys the impressions of cultural loss felt by an elderly Acadian man living on the south shore of Nova Scotia after his homestead has been deserted....

    Voices From the Landscape
  • 2021
    American Scar

    American Scar (2021)

    American Scar

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    Dynamite blasts echo through canyons as construction for the southern border threatens flora and fauna for centuries to come....

    American Scar
  • 2009
    Split Estate

    Split Estate (2009)

    Split Estate

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    This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels....

    Split Estate
  • 2024
    Hydrogène, la belle promesse

    Hydrogène, la belle promesse (2024)

    Hydrogène, la belle promesse

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    Hydrogène, la belle promesse
  • 2020
    Higher Grounds

    Higher Grounds (2020)

    Higher Grounds

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    Panama is reimagining coffee, and driving new standards for both quality and economics. Explores variety, farming practice, and processing innovation—notions traditionally associated only with winemaking. Through collaborative competition, Panamanian...

    Higher Grounds
  • 2013
    Uranium Drive-In

    Uranium Drive-In (2013)

    Uranium Drive-In

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    A new uranium mill -- the first in the U.S. in 30 years -- would re-connect the economically devastated rural mining community of Naturita, Colorado, to its proud history supplying the material for the first atomic bomb. Some view it as a greener ene...

    Uranium Drive-In
  • 2010
    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison (2010)

    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

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    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
  • 2009
    Waterlife

    Waterlife (2009)

    Waterlife

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    Waterlife is a documentary film about the Great Lakes that follows the flow of the lakes' water from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean. The film's goal is to take viewers on a tour of an incredibly beautiful ecosystem that is facing complex cha...

    Waterlife
  • 2013
    Brave New River

    Brave New River (2013)

    Brave New River

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    Brave New River (directed by Nicolas Renaud) is a feature documentary exploring the paradoxes of our control over nature, the meeting between two worlds and the dilemmas of those taking part in the transformation of the land....

    Brave New River
  • 1989
    Son of Torum

    Son of Torum (1989)

    Son of Torum

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    In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Russian oil industry on the natives and the lands they inhabit....

    Son of Torum
  • 2015
    Topophilia

    Topophilia (2015)

    Topophilia

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    An exploration of built and natural environments along the 800-mile length of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline....

    Topophilia