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1. The Year Earth Changed (2021 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary
A fresh new approach to the global lockdown and the uplifting stories that have come out of it. People all over the world have had the chance to engage with nature like never before.
Director: Tom Beard | Stars: David Attenborough, Israfeel Ahamed, Bhashkar Bara, Dulu Bora
Votes: 5,049
2. The Elephant Queen (2018)
PG | 96 min | Documentary, Family
Athena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole. This epic journey, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes audiences across the African savannah, and into the heart of an elephant family. A tale of love, loss and coming home.
Directors: Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone | Star: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Votes: 2,339
3. Fathom (2021)
TV-PG | 86 min | Documentary
Fathom is a visual and aural wonder of a documentary that follows researchers working to finally decode the communication of humpback whales. With Dr. Michelle Fournet, Dr. Ellen Garland.
Director: Drew Xanthopoulos | Stars: Michelle Fournet, Ellen Garland, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Votes: 650
4. Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
TV-PG | 97 min | Documentary
A documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer | Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Simon Schaffer, Jon Larsen
Votes: 3,669
5. Dark Red Forest (2021)
85 min | Documentary
A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden ... See full summary »
Director: Huaqing Jin
Votes: 58
6. The Velvet Queen (2021)
92 min | Documentary, Adventure
Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.
Directors: Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier | Stars: Vincent Munier, Sylvain Tesson
Votes: 2,796
7. Akeji, le souffle de la montagne (2021)
72 min | Documentary
In the Himuro Valley, in Japan, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived for ever in an hermitage, among the animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako collects the plants that... See full summary »
Directors: Corentin Leconte, Mélanie Schaan
Votes: 14
8. Purple Sea (2020)
67 min | Documentary
Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the ... See full summary »
Directors: Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed | Star: Amel Alzakout
Votes: 129
9. Borealis (2020)
Documentary
Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada's iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to each other and decide when the time is right to burn themselves down.
Director: Kevin McMahon
Votes: 63
10. A Thousand Fires (2021)
90 min | Documentary
In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they... See full summary »
Director: Saeed Taji Farouky | Stars: Zim Ko Aung, Thein Shwe, Htwe Tin
Votes: 55
11. It Begins (2022)
92 min | Documentary
Sacrificed generation? At the beginning of 2019, young people are taking to the streets all over the world to warn of the climate crisis. In Switzerland too, young people are questioning ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Choffat | Stars: Robin Chappatte, Quentin Chevalley, Lucia Choffat, Solal Choffat
Votes: 8
12. Geographies of Solitude (2022)
103 min | Documentary
An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.
Director: Jacquelyn Mills | Star: Zoe Lucas
Votes: 346
13. Everything Will Be OK (2022)
98 min | Documentary, Fantasy
Animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. The statues of the past are gone and new ones are erected to suppress the will of the people.
Director: Rithy Panh
Votes: 88
14. After Antarctica (2021)
105 min | Documentary
A journey across both poles, After Antarctica follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger's life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of our planet.
Director: Tasha Van Zandt
Votes: 39
15. Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Star: Edward Burtynsky
Votes: 3,063 | Gross: $0.24M
16. 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
17. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
87 min | Documentary
Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier | Stars: Youssef Suleiman Mohammed, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 2,058
18. Taming the Garden (2021)
91 min | Documentary
Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
Director: Salomé Jashi
Votes: 718
19. The Seer and the Unseen (2019)
80 min | Documentary
THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN is a magic realist documentary about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real ... See full summary »
Director: Sara Dosa | Star: Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Votes: 117
20. Matter Out of Place (2022)
100 min | Documentary
A film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 143
21. Almost Nothing (2018)
77 min | Documentary
Particle physicists are now heading toward the wide open and unmapped field of the "unknown unknowns".
Directors: Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Zimmer Frei, Anna Rispoli
Votes: 36
22. Land of the Bears (2014)
86 min | Documentary
Set in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the land of legends and the kingdom of wild brown bears, we follow the daily adventures of five wild brown bears.
Director: Guillaume Vincent | Star: Marion Cotillard
Votes: 393
23. O que não se vê (2020)
24 min | Documentary, Short
What is not seen - Documentary film shot in two of the Azores islands, Pico and Faial, between 2015 and 2016. The idea of this film happened by accident. Going back to the footage of a ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Abreu | Stars: Paulo Abreu, João da Ponte, Leandro Valente
Votes: 7
24. Sidik and the Panther (2019)
83 min | Documentary
For 25 long years Sidik has been searching for a snow leopard in the war-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Once there were many leopards here. If they return, Sidik believes ... See full summary »
Director: Reber Dosky | Star: Sidik Barzani
Votes: 106
25. The Wind. A Documentary Thriller (2019 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary
When it starts to blow, there is no way to hide from it or completely shelter oneself. Its destructive power manifests itself in destroyed forests and houses. However, halny is not only a ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Bielawski
Votes: 97
26. A Tunnel (2019)
92 min | Documentary
An old railway station in a remote valley of Georgia suddenly becomes a site for a big change, when hundreds of Chinese settle around it to build the New Silk Road.
Directors: Vano Arsenishvili, Nino Orjonikidze
Votes: 46
27. L'ilôt (2022)
106 min | Documentary
In the heat of summer, two security guards secure the river below the Faverges district in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ammar is new to the business, and Daniel shares his experience with him. ... See full summary »
Director: Tizian Büchi
Votes: 24
28. Tierisch müde: Das Rätsel Schlaf (2022 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: P.J. Naworynski, Daniela Pulverer, Boris Raim
Votes: 9
29. Eläinoikeusjuttu (2022)
80 min | Documentary
A personal documentary that portrays Saila, an activist for animal rights, facing her own limits when she realizes that the utopia she has always fought for will never be as she imagined.
Directors: Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen | Stars: Saila Kivelä, Mai Kivelä, Kristo Muurimaa, Karry Hedberg
Votes: 129
30. Into the Weeds (2022)
96 min | Documentary
The powerful story of a former Bay Area groundskeeper who took on Monsanto after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Stars: Dewayne 'Lee' Johnson, Cali Baldelomar, Michelle Baldelomar, Michael Baum
Votes: 46
31. Leviathan (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith, Asterias Vulgaris
Votes: 3,793 | Gross: $1.09M
32. Fire of Love (2022)
PG | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
Director: Sara Dosa | Stars: Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July, Alka Balbir
Votes: 14,406
33. The Last Mountain (2021)
R | 107 min | Documentary
The unforgettable story of the 30-year-old climber Tom Ballard who disappeared on the so-called killer mountain, Nanga Parbat, in 2019
Director: Christopher Terrill | Stars: Kate Ballard, Tom Ballard, Karim Hayat
Votes: 592
34. Last Stop before Chocolate Mountain (2022)
93 min | Documentary
In the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways.
Director: Susanna della Sala | Stars: Stefan Ashkenazy, William Attaway, Danielle Aykroyd, David Corcoran
Votes: 35
35. 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: 4,318 | Gross: $0.07M
36. Norsk hodepine (2021)
58 min | Documentary
Fridays for Future attempt a coup in Norway: for the first time ever, several generations go to court to defend their fundamental right to a clean environment - for Norway and the whole of Europe.
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo
Votes: 10
37. Maggie's Farm (2020)
84 min | Documentary
An exploration of the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a tension, a constant urge to move on the next one, as if landscape and space could be the scenes of a crime.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 41
38. Cow (I) (2021)
94 min | Documentary
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Star: Lin Gallagher
Votes: 2,306
39. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 85,207 | Gross: $23.81M
40. The Economics of Happiness (2011)
67 min | Documentary, News
'The Economics of Happiness' features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing ... See full summary »
Directors: Steven Gorelick, Helena Norberg-Hodge, John Page | Stars: Jan Barham, Ronald Colman, Eliana Amparo Apaza Espillico, Zac Goldsmith
Votes: 273
41. Last Things (2023)
50 min | Documentary
Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks. A humid take on minerals, where sci-fi meets sci-fact. The geo-biosphere is a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
Director: Deborah Stratman
Votes: 58
42. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 8,373
43. Polar Bear (2022)
PG | 84 min | Documentary
Follows a new mother as she prepares to navigate motherhood in the challenging world that polar bears face today.
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson | Star: Catherine Keener
Votes: 833
44. Bigger Than Us (II) (2021)
95 min | Documentary
Melati Wijsen travels the world to meet young activists who have already helped the world with their perseverance and selflessness.
Director: Flore Vasseur | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Mohamad Al Jounde, Memory Banda, Melati Wijsen
Votes: 176
45. The Reluctant Traveler (2023– )
TV-PG | 35 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
Follows the adventures of Levy as he visits some of the world's most remarkable hotels, as well as explores the people, places, and cultures.
Stars: Eugene Levy, Joan Collins, Héctor Bellerín, Hélder
Votes: 2,379
46. Bitterbrush (2021)
90 min | Documentary
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle.
Director: Emelie Mahdavian | Stars: Colie Moline, Hollyn Patterson
Votes: 120
47. Polaris (II) (2022)
79 min | Documentary
Explores the intimate relationship of sisterhood between two sisters, Hayat and Leila.
Director: Ainara Vera | Stars: Hayat Mokhenache, Leila Mokhenache, Inaya Mokhenache
Votes: 78
49. Wild Life (2023)
PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary
A sweeping portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Kristine Tompkins, Yvon Chouinard, Rick Ridgeway, Jimmy Chin
Votes: 564
50. Free Solo (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Cheyne Lempe
Votes: 77,346 | Gross: $17.54M
51. The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
84 min | Documentary, History
Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world's volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Harry Glicken, Werner Herzog, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft
Votes: 1,720
52. Songs of Earth (2023)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
Director: Margreth Olin | Stars: Jørgen Mykløen, Magnhild Mykløen
Votes: 513
53. Montanario (2023)
67 min | Documentary
Upon the Mont Blanc massif, observing tourism facilities, mountaineering, modernity, representation and experience
Director: Eleonora Mastropietro
54. Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction (2022)
94 min | Documentary
In this travelogue, Mirka Duijn traces the history of the image of Shangri-La, the Utopian place from the novel Lost Horizon (1933), that has now become real.
Directors: Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering
Votes: 25
55. All That Breathes (2022)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
Director: Shaunak Sen | Stars: Salik Rehman, Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad
Votes: 4,793
56. The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary
Comedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.
Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Laura Nix | Stars: Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Benadette Chandia Kodili, Albert Mwesigwa
Votes: 792 | Gross: $0.05M
57. The Living Desert (1953)
G | 69 min | Family, Documentary
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 1,716
58. Abendland (2011)
90 min | Documentary
This documentary about Europe at night makes you reflect on service processes and infrastructures that never sleep.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 230
59. To the End (2022)
R | 94 min | Documentary
Stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four young women fight for a Green New Deal, and ignite a historic shift in U.S. climate politics.
Director: Rachel Lears | Stars: Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas
Votes: 1,653
60. Le système Total, anatomie d'une multinationale de l'énergie (2022 TV Movie)
92 min | Documentary
Together with its sister companies ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips, Total is one of the six oil and gas super-majors. Total produces 2.8 million barrels and charters 143 ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Robert Viallet
Votes: 20
61. Knit's Island (2023)
95 min | Documentary
Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The players reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
Directors: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'Helgouac'h
Votes: 92
62. Lagunaria (2023)
85 min | Documentary
An indefinite an indefinite tale of a unique and fragile city Venice that is slowly disappearing, suffocated by tourism and threatened by climate change.
Director: Giovanni Pellegrini
Votes: 15
63. Firenze città aperta (2002)
50 min | Documentary
"She stands on the horizon. I move two steps nearer; she moves away 10 steps. No matter how far I walk I will never reach her, so what is the utopia for? It's useful for this: to keep ... See full summary »
Directors: Stefano Lorenzi, Federico Micali, Teresa Paoli
Votes: 11
65. Breaking Social (2023)
93 min | Documentary
Examines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.
Director: Fredrik Gertten | Stars: Rutger Bregman, Gerald Bryson, Sarah Chayes, Pasquale Cioffi
Votes: 149
66. Earth Protectors (2023)
96 min | Documentary
Anne de Carbuccia, an environmental artist, captures the stories of a motley crew of people who decided to dedicate themselves to the planet's wellbeing.
Director: Anne de Carbuccia | Stars: Roberto Ambrosini, Mariasole Bianco, Tashi Bista, Jared Cairuna Cauper
Votes: 58
67. ¡Vivan las antípodas! (2011)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 720
68. Aquarela (I) (2018)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 1,630 | Gross: $0.19M
69. Gunda (2020)
G | 93 min | Documentary
Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky | Star: Gunda
Votes: 2,924
70. Wild Amsterdam (2018)
85 min | Documentary
The city Amsterdam from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.
Director: Mark Verkerk | Stars: Abatutu, Martijn Fischer, Ana Luisa Santos
Votes: 639
71. Invisible demons: tuhon merkit (2021)
70 min | Documentary
Explores the dramatic consequences of India's growing economy, capturing not only a city in crisis but magnifying our collective climate realities.
Director: Rahul Jain
Votes: 463
72. Nuclear Now (2022)
105 min | Documentary
An investigation into the possibility of addressing climate change with a move away from fossil fuels to nuclear power.
Director: Oliver Stone
Votes: 862
73. Zuan shi shui zu shi jie (2022)
155 min | Documentary
Du is a shrimp farmer from Taiwan, and he wanted to start a shrimp revolution in Myanmar but was falsely accused of possessing guns and drugs before the revolution began; Sue, a ... See full summary »
Director: Hsiu-Yi Huang
Votes: 7
74. Terra Nova (2023)
53 min | Documentary
Antarctica (1988) a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach the bay of Terra Nova. The Italian icebreaker Laura Bassi in 2023 follows the same route and reaches the southernmost point on the planet ever reached by a ship
Director: Lorenzo Pallotta
Votes: 30
75. The Night Visitors (2023)
72 min | Documentary
Film and video artist Michael Gitlin emphasizes the surreal beauty and ecological relevance of moths, examining a significant aspect of our planet's biodiversity that many of us may never investigate.
Director: Michael Gitlin
Votes: 7
76. The Sea Around Us (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Documentary
Oscar-winning documentary based on Rachel L. Carson's pioneering study of ocean life chronicled in her award-winning and best-selling 1951 book of the same name.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Don Forbes, Theodore von Eltz
Votes: 379
77. Der unsichtbare Zoo (2024)
178 min | Documentary
Across seasons, the film chronicles life at Zurich Zoo, a leading European zoological garden, focusing on the animals, workers and visitors. It explores the relationship between caged creatures and human audiences.
Director: Romuald Karmakar
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