Environment Movies
- 2018
Après Demain
Après Demain6.92018HD
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...
- 2018
The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History
The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History72018HD
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...
- 2019
Orbit
Orbit02019HD
The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the...
- 2020
The New West and the Politics of the Environment
The New West and the Politics of the Environment02020HD
This film explores how iconic Nevada Senator Harry Reid set the foundations for a green new deal.
- 2016
The Islands and the Whales
The Islands and the Whales5.22016HD
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...
- 2016
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival6.22016HD
In Fabrizio Terranova’s film, Donna Haraway – an original thinker and activist, one of the founders of cyberfeminism and the author of A...
- 2022
The Catastrophe Garden
The Catastrophe Garden102022HD
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...
- 1991
Mother Earth
Mother Earth01991HD
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...
- 2009
The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic
The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic82009HD
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...
- 2018
Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam
Forgotten Tragedy: The Story of the St. Francis Dam62018HD
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...
- 2017
Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World
Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World8.62017HD
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...
- 2021
Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy02021HD
For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...
- 2013
Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets
Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets92013HD
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...
- 2016
The Man Who Wanted to Change the World
The Man Who Wanted to Change the World02016HD
Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to earth’s problems. Growing up in...
- 2019
Cacu: A Change for Life
Cacu: A Change for Life02019HD
Five fishermen from Manresa, a poor neighborhood to the West of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, learn from marine biologist Omar Shamir...
- 2017
Exhale
Exhale5.62017HD
The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.
- 1993
Wilderness: The Last Stand
Wilderness: The Last Stand01993HD
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,...
- 2009
Waterlife
Waterlife82009HD
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...
- 2021
Forest for the Trees
Forest for the Trees02021HD
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...
- 2017
From the Ashes
From the Ashes6.42017HD
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...