Environmental Documentary Movies

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have start...

The film follows a group of growers who embrace the restorative power that the soil holds. Skin of the Earth is a story about the relationship between...

In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi Riv...

What is a whale worth? What price can be put on the life of such majestic animals? How can we estimate that cost? And how have humans changed the way...

Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for modern people. W...

Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. When a fracking mega-site gets m...

Malaika Vaz follows the illegal manta ray trade pipeline from fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, to the Indo-Myanmar border and finally undercover i...

With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction o...

Recent studies show that insects are in decline across the globe and there may be a direct connection between the current climate crisis and these dec...

A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongside eight other activists for opposing the environm...

Climate change has reached the indigenous Nenets people in the north of Siberia. The nomads' herds of reindeer move on thin ice. The warming in the Ru...

Food, health, and nutrition divide two sides of town in Gainesville, Florida - how the movement to bring Black culture, history, and knowledge back to...

Amado cut down twenty-five trees a day during the seven years he was a feller. Yadira grew up believing that as a woman, her possibilities were restri...