Environmental Documentary Movies

This 1991 Academy Award®-winning documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear...

The story of stolen land and the loss of America's last frontier, this timely intervention uncovers the sordid truth of an encroaching pipeline...

This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird...

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

The film traces his path between militancy and naturalism, his search for a balance between combat and contemplation. Based on a personal and...

Dark green, impenetrable forests cover a landscape with secluded valleys and rugged mountain ridges. 2.000 rivers and streams dig deep into the...

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...

A documentary that introduces FIT Hives, a student-run organization whose mission is to educate the FIT community about the importance of bees to the...

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to...

Moonchild is one of Fulton’s very earliest ethnographic projects. Filming in East Africa while on another production, he shoots with single...

Steel giant Thyssen Krupp in Germany and cargo ship operator Maersk in Denmark are investing huge sums of money with public support to convert their...

After traveling the globe to highlight low-tech, Corentin de Chatelperron has set himself a new challenge: to live independently, alone for four...

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

What could the bison and the beaver have in common? Although they are two completely different species in appearance, they have one remarkable thing...

How can we harness the power of mushrooms to fight climate change? In the American West, wildfires spread fast. To slow the flames, forest managers...

Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is...