Documentaries about the environment
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- DirectorAvi LewisStarsNaomi KleinStacey Arwen RaabA look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- DirectorFisher StevensStarsLeonardo DiCaprioBan Ki-moonAlejandro G. IñárrituA look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.
- DirectorWalon GreenEd SpiegelStarsLawrence PressmanConlan CarterIan McShaneA scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
- DirectorPaolo CaselliFrancesco Ferri
- DirectorImre AzemTells the story of Istanbul and other Mega-Cities on a neo-liberal course to destruction. It follows the story of a migrant family on their on-going struggle for housing rights.
- DirectorSarah BeddingtonStarsAmer Abu MatarAmmar Haj AhmadWissam AliThe Logic of the Birds offers a poetic reflection on landscape, migration and freedom of movement while also hinting at past narratives just out of sight whose reactivation may open up a space for a potential future story to be imagined.
- DirectorLujain JoA audio-visual experimental documentary exploring the evolution of humanity's exploitation of Earth's life and resources through four video essays on jellyfish, marine life, animals and finally robots and artificial intelligence.
- DirectorAsgeir HelgestadStarsAsgeir HelgestadA dramatic encounter between Frost, a loving polar bear mother, and Asgeir Helgestad, a Norwegian wildlife filmmaker, documenting how climate change affects the lives of all living in the melting archipelago of Svalbard.
- DirectorDamon GameauStarsDamon GameauEva LazzaroZoë GameauPractical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.
- DirectorNadir BouhmouchIn 2011, the villagers of Imider shut down a water pipeline to Africa's biggest silver mine to save their oasis. Eight years later, they sing while harvesting the fruits of their militancy.
- DirectorAlia YunisA 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including her own father. It is a complicated romance, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsEdward AsnerPat BenatarJerry BrownA collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsBelladonnaMarlon BrandoElton JohnA visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsChristie BrinkleyDavid BrinkleyPatrick DisantoAn exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
- DirectorOliver HodgeStarsMichael ReynoldsChris ReynoldsShauna MalloyGarbage 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.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalEdward BurtynskyNicholas de PencierStarsYoussef Suleiman MohammedAlicia VikanderFilmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalEdward BurtynskyStarsInocencia González SainzMarcus SchubertBill NanceA documentary on how water shapes humanity.
- DirectorNathanaël CosteMarc De La MénardièreMarc de la MénardièreStarsNathanaël CosteMarc de la MénardièreHervé KempfTwo childhood friends travel the world to meet some of the greatest thinkers of our time. This incredible voyage, full of moments of doubt and moments of joy, will lead them to question the very beliefs that have shaped Western civilization. This film captures the change in human consciousness currently happening all over the planet, and the desire to live in harmony with oneself and the world.