Environmental movies - Long list
by lisey75 | created - 29 Aug 2014 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicThis is a list of environmental movies. See also our shorter list of inspiring and positive environmental movies here: [link]www.imdb.com/list/ls071952485[/link]
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1. The 11th Hour (I) (2007)
PG | 95 min | Documentary
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.
Directors: Leila Conners, Nadia Conners | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenny Ausubel, Thom Hartmann, Wangari Maathai
Votes: 5,908 | Gross: $0.70M
2. WALL·E (2008)
G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
Votes: 1,200,051 | Gross: $223.81M
3. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2010)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Drama
A look at the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies in America and an exploration of how beekeeping is practiced there and around the world.
Director: Taggart Siegel | Stars: Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan
Votes: 354
4. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,373
5. Plastic Planet (2009)
TV-G | 95 min | Documentary
Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us on a ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Boote | Stars: Werner Boote, John Taylor, Peter Lieberzeit, Marques Brown
Votes: 1,232 | Gross: $0.00M
6. FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.
Director: Bill Kroyer | Stars: Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams, Tim Curry
Votes: 33,911 | Gross: $24.65M
7. State of the Planet (2000 TV Movie)
147 min | Documentary
David Attenborough investigates the latest scientific research to discover whether or not there is a global environmental crisis, and, if so, what solutions there are to it.
Director: Kate Broome | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 764
8. Earth Days (2009)
90 min | Documentary
The story of our growing awareness and understanding of the environmental crisis and emergence, during the 1960's and '70's, of popular movement to confront it.
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Stewart Brand, Rachel L. Carson, Bill Clinton, Paul Ehrlich
Votes: 202 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Project Wild Thing (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Filmmaker David Bond invites parents everywhere to help their kids re-connect with nature in our digital age.
Director: David Bond | Stars: Michael Depledge, Susan Greenfield, Jay Griffiths, Geoffrey McMullan
Votes: 131
10. Play Again (2010)
PG | 88 min | Documentary, Family
Investigates the consequences of a childhood removed from nature. At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, this documentary unplugs a group of tech savvy teens and ... See full summary »
Director: Tonje Hessen Schei | Stars: James Barrett, Taylor Blake, Jerald Block, Michael Brody
Votes: 29
11. No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
Directors: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein | Stars: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin
Votes: 1,587 | Gross: $0.10M
12. The Clean Bin Project (2010)
77 min | Documentary, Comedy, News
The Clean Bin Project is about a regular couple and their quest to answer the question 'is it possible to live completely waste free?' Partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a comedic ... See full summary »
Director: Grant Baldwin | Stars: Arlene Lang, Luke Martin, David B. Starks, Lori B. Gosselin
Votes: 121
13. Watermark (2013)
PG | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary on how water shapes humanity.
Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky | Stars: Inocencia González Sainz, Marcus Schubert, Bill Nance, Rafikul Islam Sarkar
Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $0.08M
14. RiverBlue (2017)
95 min | Documentary, News
RiverBlue chronicles an unprecedented around-the-world river adventure, led by renowned paddler and conservationist, Mark Angelo, who ends up uncovering and documenting the dark side of the global fashion industry.
Directors: David McIlvride, Roger Williams | Stars: Jason Priestley, Mark Angelo, Orsola De Castro, Kumi Naidoo
Votes: 119
15. Bag It (2010)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
An average guy makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this simple decision will change his life completely. He comes to the conclusion ... See full summary »
Director: Suzan Beraza | Stars: Jeb Berrier, Jared Blumenfeld, Martin Bourque, Michael Braungart
Votes: 725
16. Trashed (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, ... See full summary »
Director: Candida Brady | Stars: Paul Connett, Jeremy Irons, Evangelos Kalafatis, Charles Moore
Votes: 698
17. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
PG | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
Director: Chris Paine | Stars: Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Reverend Gadget
Votes: 12,755 | Gross: $1.68M
18. A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet (2012)
TV-G | 101 min | Documentary
An exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change.
Director: Mark Kitchell | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Isabel Allende
Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.03M
19. Chasing Ice (2012)
PG-13 | 75 min | Documentary, Biography
Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.
Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang | Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos, Kitty Boone
Votes: 8,863 | Gross: $1.33M
20. The End of the Line (I) (2009)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Rupert Murray examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues that drastic action must be taken to reverse these trends.
Director: Rupert Murray | Stars: Ben Bradshaw, Roberto Mielgo Bragazzi, Charles Clover, John Crosbie
Votes: 1,099
21. A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A theatrical documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources.
Directors: Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack, Reto Caduff | Stars: Wade Adams, Abdul Samad Al-Awadi, Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi, Roscoe Bartlett
Votes: 2,000
22. Food, Inc. (2008)
PG | 94 min | Documentary, News
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb, Vince Edwards
Votes: 52,210 | Gross: $4.42M
23. The Future of Food (2004)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade.
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia | Stars: Charles Benbrook, Grace Booth, George W. Bush, Ignacio Chapela
Votes: 1,434 | Gross: $0.08M
24. spOILed (2011)
90 min | Documentary
Most people today believe we are "addicted" to oil. But are we? Is oil destroying our lives the way other addictions do? Newsman turned filmmaker Mark Mathis explores our relationship to ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Mathis
Votes: 31
25. The Story of Stuff (2007)
21 min | Animation, Short
For most of the world, consumption has been the unquestioned duty of every individual. Then garbage activist Annie Leonard brought her two-hour lecture to Free Range who helped her turn it ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Fox | Star: Annie Leonard
Votes: 378
26.
CNBC Documentaries (2003– )
Episode:
Trash, Inc: The Secret Life of Garbage
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, News
In this CNBC documentary, "Squawk Box" Co-Anchor Carl Quintanilla will look at garbage - how we create it, how we get rid of it, and how we often just put it out of sight all at significant... See full summary »
Star: Carl Quintanilla
Votes: 8
27. Vanishing of the Bees (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, History
This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee.
Directors: Maryam Henein, George Langworthy | Stars: Elliot Page, Bret Adee, Dennis Cardoza, Henri Clement
Votes: 1,196
28. Voices of Transition (2012 Video)
65 min | Documentary, News
Voices of the Transition is an enthusiastic documentary on farmers- and community-led responses to food insecurity in a scenario of climate change and peak oil. How to create local ... See full summary »
Director: Nils Aguilar | Stars: Rachel Baker, Claude Bourguignon, Martin Crawford, Christian Dupraz
Votes: 29
29. Revenge of the Electric Car (2011)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.
Director: Chris Paine | Stars: Tim Robbins, Dan Neil, Danny DeVito, Ray Wert
Votes: 1,909 | Gross: $0.15M
30. What is the Electric Car? (2010)
TV-PG | 76 min | Documentary
The Electric Vehicle is a booming industry. Watch Interviews with manufacturers and drivers. Visit the Petersen and Ford Museums, Jay Leno's Garage and the Detroit Auto Show. A documentary for anyone who drives.
Director: Ken Grant | Stars: Jessica Bay, Ed Begley Jr., Aaron Berger, Tom Berry
Votes: 17
31. Vanishing Point (III) (2012)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Two Inuit communities are linked by an 1860's migration led by an intrepid shaman. Navarana, Inughuit elder and descendant of the shaman, senses the consequences of rapid social and environmental change, and wonders about the future.
Directors: Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs | Star: Navarana K'Avigak
Votes: 31
32. The Lorax (2012)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Directors: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda | Stars: Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms
Votes: 129,766 | Gross: $214.03M
33. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,386,077 | Gross: $760.51M
34. Green Fire (2011)
73 min | Documentary, Biography
Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the twentieth-century. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and ecological restoration. ... See full summary »
Directors: Ann Dunsky, Steve Dunsky, Dave Steinke | Stars: Peter Coyote, Aldo Leopold, Curt Meine
Votes: 43
35. Go Further (2003)
Unrated | 80 min | Documentary
Woody Harrelson and a group of friends take a road trip on a bio-fueled bus to demonstrate ways to be environmentally responsible and visit people who live by that principle.
Director: Ron Mann | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ken Kesey, Tom Ballanco, Jessica Yoon Ji Chung
Votes: 377
36.
Natural World (1983– )
Episode:
A Farm for the Future
(2009)
Documentary
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father ... See full summary »
Stars: Rebecca Hosking, Colin Campbell, Rosie Boycott, Tim Lang
Votes: 54
37. Fresh (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, News
There are still efficient ways to produce healthy fresh organic food in a time where most food is being mass produced by corporations in less than hygienic ways. Country farmers and urban farmers explain.
Director: Ana Sofia Joanes | Stars: Diana Endicott, John Ikerd, Andrew Kimbrell, George Naylor
Votes: 286
38. My Father's Garden (1995)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
My Father's Garden is an engrossing documentary about the use and misuse of technology on the American farm. The main story concerns Fred Kirschenmann, organic farmer and leader in the ... See full summary »
Director: Miranda Smith
Votes: 13
39. Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? (2006)
52 min | Documentary
Over nine months, Mischa Hedges and Digital Sense Productions traveled the west coast to learn more about our food system. During production, he found that the standard methods of producing... See full summary »
Director: Mischa Hedges | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., James Cromwell, Marc Grossman, Howard Lyman
Votes: 29
40. The Natural History of the Chicken (2000)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Comedy
Through interviews and reenactments, The Natural History of the Chicken investigates the role of the chicken in American life and tells several remarkable stories. A Maine farmer says she ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Lewis | Stars: Janet Bonney, Joseph Martinez, Joel Vavra, David Forrester
Votes: 461
41. A Chemical Reaction (2009)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Canada has spoken and toxic lawn and garden pesticides are now banned in most of the nation. A Chemical Reaction examines how Hudson, Quebec, became the first town in North America to ban ... See full summary »
Director: Brett Plymale
Votes: 16
42. Homo toxicus (2008 Video)
86 min | Documentary
Documentarian Carole Poliquin examines the politics and science behind the more than 100,000 man-made chemicals that contaminate human beings, mammals, plants, and fish.
Director: Carole Poliquin | Stars: Kevin Arroyo, Jacques Auger, Robert Bolduc, James Brophy
Votes: 36
43. A Sense of Wonder (2008 Video)
TV-G | 55 min | Biography
Captures Rachel Carson, the mother of the environmental movement and author of Silent Spring, in the final months of her life as she defends her book and battles with cancer.
Director: Christopher Monger | Star: Kaiulani Lee
Votes: 19
44. Fuel (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
America is addicted to oil and it is time for an intervention. Enter Josh Tickell, a man with a plan and a Veggie Van, who is taking on big oil, big government, and big soy to find solutions in places few people have looked.
Director: Joshua Tickell | Stars: Laurie Lennard, Joshua Tickell, Larry David, Larry Hagman
Votes: 784 | Gross: $0.17M
45. Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
Most experts agree that global peak oil production, when demand exceeds supply, will occur within the next 15 years and will drastically change the very fabric of our industrialized world. ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe Fauchere | Stars: Steve Andrews, James Hansen, David Stuart, Randy Udall
Votes: 11
46. Transition Town Totnes (2011)
14 min | Documentary, Short, History
The origins of the Transition movement with founder Rob Hopkins, interviewed in one of the original Transition Towns, Totnes, England.
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia
47. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,113
48. Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (2008)
81 min | Documentary
Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Dater, Lisa Merton | Stars: Larisa Eryomina, Njogu Kahare, Leah Kisomo, Kinyanjui Kiuno
Votes: 64
49. A Garden's Family (1995)
24 min | Documentary, Short
By exploring the meaning of the garden in their lives, Canadian organic gardener Mary Perlmutter and her family members learn about themselves and each other. This film explores how the ... See full summary »
Director: Geneviève Appleton | Stars: Leah Perlmutter Zahner, Ariana Perlmutter, Devon Perlmutter, Mary Perlmutter
51. Everything's Cool (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
Researchers, activists, scientists and more and more politicians have been actively fighting for several decades to wake up the public and governments of various countries to take ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand | Stars: Daniel B. Gold, Ross Gelbspan, Bill McKibben, John 'Bish' Neuhauser
Votes: 227
52. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
53 min | Documentary
The documentary, "The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year ... See full summary »
Director: Faith Morgan | Stars: Bruce Cromer, Jorge Mario, Rachel Bruhnke, Eugene 'Pat' Murphy
Votes: 265
53. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, War
The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living. They were originally developed in an era of cheap oil, when the automobile became the center of the way people ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Greene | Stars: Barrie Zwicker, James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare
Votes: 1,028
54. Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream (2007 Video)
95 min | Documentary
Gregory Greene address the coming energy crisis caused by peak oil. He outlines potential solutions with interviews with individuals from across the continent who were brave enough to challenge their communities toward change.
Director: Gregory Greene | Stars: Ed Schreyer, Matthew Simmons, Richard Heinberg, Michael Ruppert
Votes: 84
55. Addicted to Plastic (2008)
85 min | Documentary
A Canadian documentary on modern society's 'addiction' to plastic; our prolific use of this product, its effects on the earth and on us, and where our unwanted plastic ends up.
Director: Ian Connacher
Votes: 347
56. The Human Footprint (2007 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary
Documentray examining the amount of products consumed in a lifetime and the impact it has on the environment.
Director: Nick Watts | Stars: Catherine Collins, Oliver Curry, George Monbiot, Jeremy Penzer
Votes: 98
57. Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western (1999 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
The problem of suburban sprawl in the American West.
Directors: Chelsea Congdon, Jeff Gersh | Star: Dennis Weaver
Votes: 8
58. Sprawling from Grace (2008)
82 min | Documentary
With more than 250 million cars and trucks on the road and the demand for oil out pacing the Earth's ability to supply it, have we now become slaves to this unsustainable freedom?
Director: David M. Edwards | Stars: Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Justin Barr, Dena Belzer, George W. Bush
Votes: 68
59. Subdivided (2007)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Isolation and Community in America: A Meta-Media Documentary.
Director: Dean Terry
Votes: 10
60. The Recyclergy (2006)
Not Rated | 33 min | Documentary, Short
For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Even the garbage companies have a long history of recycling practices. After the first Earth Day ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Kaller | Stars: Bob Besso, Arthur Robinson Boone, Mike Casady, Joe Garbarino
Votes: 22
61. We are Traffic! (1999)
50 min | Documentary
The film chronicles the history and development of "Critical Mass", the leaderless, grassroots bicycle movement from its 1992 beginnings in San Francisco to its spread across the globe to ... See full summary »
Director: Ted White | Star: Chris Carlsson
Votes: 11
62. Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)
Not Rated | 44 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water conservation issues.
Director: Greg MacGillivray | Stars: Tara Davis, Wade Davis, Flo Di Re, Steve Fisher
Votes: 426
63. A Sea Change (2009)
83 min | Documentary
A life-long sportsman and retired educator, Sven Huseby considers himself a well-informed environmentalist. But he is caught by surprise when he reads about the effect of excess carbon ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Ettinger
Votes: 37
64. Home (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Family
With aerial footage from fifty-four countries, 'Home' is a depiction of how Earth's problems are all interlinked.
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Stars: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Glenn Close, Jacques Gamblin
Votes: 23,047
65. The Landfill (2012)
TV-G | 4 min | Documentary, Short, News
Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.
Directors: Jessica Edwards, Gary Hustwit
Votes: 14
66. Tapped (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
Examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
Directors: Stephanie Soechtig, Jason Lindsey | Stars: Sally Bethea, Earl Blumenauer, Amanda Brown, Eugene Brown
Votes: 1,338
67. Waste Land (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Directors: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim | Star: Vik Muniz
Votes: 9,362 | Gross: $0.19M
68. Dirt! The Movie (2009)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.
Directors: Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow, Eleonore Dailly | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Logan, Vandana Shiva, Fritjof Capra
Votes: 506
69. North of the Sun (2012)
46 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Two young men decide to spend an archive circle Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of Norway. Their home is built from salvaged material washed up onshore. They surf every day with much time for self reflection.
Directors: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge | Stars: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge
Votes: 1,025
70. Angel Azul (2014)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Drama
Jason deCaire's Taylor's hauntingly beautiful underwater life-like statues let's us witness the birth of an artificial coral reef, learn how we are connected to the ocean, and are left to think how our choices determine the future.
Director: Marcy Cravat | Stars: Jason DeCaires Taylor, Peter Coyote, Sylvia Earle, Thomas Goreau
Votes: 26
71. Journey to the South Pacific (2013)
G | 40 min | Documentary, Short
An underwater voyage to Indonesia to learn about its inhabitants such as giant rays and whale sharks as well as efforts being made in the region for ocean conservation.
Directors: Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray | Stars: Ferdiel Ballamu, Cate Blanchett, Menas Mambasar, Jawi Mayor
Votes: 260 | Gross: $7.65M
72. The Human Experiment (2013)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
A documentary that explores chemicals found in everyday household products.
Directors: Don Hardy, Dana Nachman | Star: Sean Penn
Votes: 665
73. Slow Food Story (2013)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
In 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the ArciGola Gastronomic Association in Italy and three years later in Paris, launched Slow Food, an international anti-fast-food resistance movement. An ... See full summary »
Director: Stefano Sardo | Stars: Carlo Petrini, Azio Citi, Dario Fo, Gigi Padovani
Votes: 71
74. DamNation (2014)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Adventure
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.
Directors: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel | Stars: Edward Abbey, Bruce Babbitt, Lori Bodi, Yvon Chouinard
Votes: 762
75. The Earth Wins (2013)
46 min | Documentary
Shot entirely from the air on four continents, seven years in the making, The Earth Wins explores the delicate balance between man and Mother Earth, our inter-dependence and the impact of ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Grayson
Votes: 9
76. Lost Rivers (2012)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories.... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Bacle | Star: Caroline Bacle
Votes: 82
77. More Than Honey (2012)
Unrated | 95 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.
Director: Markus Imhoof | Stars: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer
Votes: 4,319 | Gross: $0.07M
78. Sandgrains (2013)
57 min | Documentary
Jose returns home to Cape Verde to find his community transformed. The beach where he had first played football is gone; it has been stripped of its sand and is now nothing more than rocks ... See full summary »
Directors: Gabriel Manrique, Jordie Montevecchi
Votes: 8
79. Chicken Karma (2012)
8 min | Short, Comedy
Deep in the darkest battery hen cage, a chicken secretly pens a short film screenplay on an egg. That egg was fortuitously discovered in an egg carton by a couple of hungry film makers.
Directors: Christian Cordeaux, Toby Etchells | Stars: Amber Cordeaux, Daniel Cordeaux, Jeremy Cordeaux, Saxon Cordeaux
80. Passive Passion (2011 Video)
23 min | Documentary, Short, News
20 years ago, European physicists synthesized a package of design principles that reduces a dwelling's heating and cooling energy use by nine tenths. Over 20,000 buildings in Europe have ... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Hoxie | Star: Charlie Hoxie
81. Surviving Progress (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Theorists consider the evolution of human society and question the sustainability of the current paradigm.
Directors: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks | Stars: Ronald Wright, Mark Levine, Robert Wright, Marina Silva
Votes: 1,899 | Gross: $0.05M
82. The Island President (2011)
PG | 101 min | Documentary
After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.
Director: Jon Shenk | Star: Mohamed Nasheed
Votes: 1,249 | Gross: $0.08M
83. Magic Harvest (2011)
Documentary, Short
Many suburbs are built on former farmland. In the suburbs of Adelaide, locals arm themselves with pitch forks and kitchen knives to put that land to good use, pioneering a backyard ... See full summary »
Director: Jeni Lee | Star: Tori Moreton
84. Planeat (2010)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of three men's life-long search for a diet which is good for our health, the environment and the future of our planet - showcasing some of the best food you have ever seen.
Directors: Shelley Lee Davies, Or Shlomi | Stars: T. Colin Campbell, Richard Doll, Gidon Eshel, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.
Votes: 180
85. Plasticized (2011)
48 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Plasticized is an intimate first-hand journey with the 5 Gyres Institute on the first scientific expedition looking at plastic waste across the South Atlantic Ocean. An eye-opening look at ... See full summary »
Director: Michael J. Lutman | Stars: Marcus Eriksen, Anna Cummins
Votes: 14
86. Truck Farm (2011)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
'Truck Farm' is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney (KING CORN, THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE, THE CITY DARK) planted a 1/1000th-acre ... See full summary »
Director: Ian Cheney
Votes: 25
88. Call of Life (2010)
60 min | Documentary
The first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If current trends continue, scientists warn ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Thompson | Stars: Steven Beissinger, Sally Bingham, Ignacio Chapela, Peter Coyote
Votes: 38
89. Dive! (2010)
TV-G | 45 min | Documentary, Family
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process they uncover ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Seifert | Star: Jeremy Seifert
Votes: 329
90. Growing Change (2011)
59 min | Documentary
A journey inside Venezuela's food revolution.
Director: Simon Cunich
91. Pump (2014)
PG | 88 min | Documentary
A documentary that tells the story of America's addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it - and finally win choice at the pump.
Directors: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell | Stars: Adhemar Altieri, Greg Anderson, Edwin Black, David Blume
Votes: 658 | Gross: $0.07M
92. The Story of Bottled Water (2010 Video)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
How 'Manufactured Demand' pushes what we don't need and destroys what we need most.
Director: Louis Fox | Star: Annie Leonard
Votes: 52
93. The Story of Cosmetics (2010 Video)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The ugly truth of 'toxics in, toxics out'.
Director: Louis Fox | Star: Annie Leonard
Votes: 27
94. Taste the Waste (2010)
92 min | Documentary
Why do we throw away so much food? And how can we stop this kind of waste?Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers.
Director: Valentin Thurn | Stars: Klaudia Fischer, Jörn Franck, Michael Gerling, Sylvain Sadoine
Votes: 530
95. Life (2009)
TV-G | 43 min | Documentary, Family
David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth. From giving an overview of the challenges facing life to hunting the deep sea and various major evolutionary groups of creatures.
Stars: Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan, Roger Munns
Votes: 42,714
96. Garbage Warrior (2007)
86 min | Documentary
Garbage Warrior" tells the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living.
Director: Oliver Hodge | Stars: Michael Reynolds, Chris Reynolds, Shauna Malloy, Dave DiCicco
Votes: 795
97. The Garden (I) (2008)
Unrated | 80 min | Documentary
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy | Stars: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Antonio Villaraigosa
Votes: 751 | Gross: $0.03M
98. Symphony of the Soil (2012)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
Drawing from ancient knowledge and cutting edge science, Symphony of the Soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. By understanding the elaborate relationships and ... See full summary »
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia | Stars: Ignacio Chapela, Dan Barber, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Hillel
Votes: 146
99. The Majestic Plastic Bag (2010)
4 min | Short, Action, Comedy
A plastic bag encounters enemies and escapes death on its epic migration to its final destination: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Director: Jeremy Konner | Star: Jeremy Irons
Votes: 102
100. Last Call at the Oasis (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Documentary
A documentary on the world's water crisis.
Director: Jessica Yu | Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Jay Famiglietti, Peter H. Gleick, Tim Barnett
Votes: 476 | Gross: $0.04M
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