Environment Movies

  • 2018
    Après Demain

    Après Demain

    Après Demain

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    Two years after the phenomenal success of the documentary Demain, Cyril Dion looks back at the projects the film inspired. He is accompanied by Laure...

    Après Demain
  • 2018
    The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History

    The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History

    The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History

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    In a unique science experiment, Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin chronicle the history of rubbish and explore how what we throw away tells us...

    The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History
  • 2019
    Orbit

    Orbit

    Orbit

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    The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the...

    Orbit
  • 2020
    The New West and the Politics of the Environment

    The New West and the Politics of the Environment

    The New West and the Politics of the Environment

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    This film explores how iconic Nevada Senator Harry Reid set the foundations for a green new deal.

    The New West and the Politics of the Environment
  • 2016
    The Islands and the Whales

    The Islands and the Whales

    The Islands and the Whales

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    The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about...

    The Islands and the Whales
  • 2016
    Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

    Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

    Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

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    In Fabrizio Terranova’s film, Donna Haraway – an original thinker and activist, one of the founders of cyberfeminism and the author of A...

    Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
  • 2022
    The Catastrophe Garden

    The Catastrophe Garden

    The Catastrophe Garden

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    It is a daring idea: to grow food from old mattresses in a desolate camp at the edge of a war zone. When a refugee scientist meets two quirky...

    The Catastrophe Garden
  • 1991
    Mother Earth

    Mother Earth

    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...

    Mother Earth
  • 2009
    The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic

    The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic

    The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic

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    Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year...

    The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic
  • 2018
    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam

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    The largest man-made disaster of the 20th century, now largely lost to history. A journey through the early history of Los Angeles and the city's...

    Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam
  • 2017
    Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World

    Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World

    Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World

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    The vessel is Infinity, a 120-foot hand-built sailboat, crewed by a band of miscreants. The journey, an 8,000 mile Pacific crossing from New Zealand...

    Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World
  • 2021
    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

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    For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
  • 2013
    Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets

    Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets

    Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets

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    Africa's development is being held back by poor infrastructure and undersized power plants. Countries like Uganda can only produce only 1/4 of the...

    Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets
  • 2016
    The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

    The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

    The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

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    Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to earth’s problems. Growing up in...

    The Man Who Wanted to Change the World
  • 2019
    Cacu: A Change for Life

    Cacu: A Change for Life

    Cacu: A Change for Life

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    Five fishermen from Manresa, a poor neighborhood to the West of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, learn from marine biologist Omar Shamir...

    Cacu: A Change for Life
  • 2017
    Exhale

    Exhale

    Exhale

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    The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.

    Exhale
  • 1993
    Wilderness: The Last Stand

    Wilderness: The Last Stand

    Wilderness: The Last Stand

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    A look at the mandate and performance of the U.S. Forest Service in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Through interviews with Forest Service employees,...

    Wilderness: The Last Stand
  • 2009
    Waterlife

    Waterlife

    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...

    Waterlife
  • 2021
    Forest for the Trees

    Forest for the Trees

    Forest for the Trees

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    Award-winning war photographer Rita Leistner goes back to her roots as a tree planter in the wilderness of British Columbia, offering an inside take...

    Forest for the Trees
  • 2017
    From the Ashes

    From the Ashes

    From the Ashes

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    Capturing Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the...

    From the Ashes