Environmental Documentary Movies

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of...

Tokyo, the largest city in the world, wants to create a new urban culture. It is returning to the urban traditions and building techniques of the...

“Tucaneira: Wooden Hands” is a captivating mini-documentary that takes us on a fascinating journey through the world of a skilled artisan...

An international diary of the impact of climate change is constructed from thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage. Through the process, we...

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

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But...

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

One song traces a pathway from oral poet and Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina's tradition to Mazatec rapper Xéti NdáJnio and Medicine woman...

Devastating hurricanes, torrential rains, the inexorably rising waters: coastal megacities are now up against the wall. The filmmakers have chosen...

The return of numerous displaced wild animal species to Europe has been observed since the 1950s. Now scientists have decided to accelerate this...

With celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall, this documentary goes around the world to meet the individuals working hard to protect the world’s...

As quarrying operations on protected Mount Banahaw continue to aggravate the lives of the locals in Sariaya, Quezon, the call for urgent action to...

This film narrates the story of a community on the coast of the Special Capital Region of Jakarta, experiencing the direct impact of land subsidence...

The Guelph Outdoor School challenges modern education by providing children the freedom to connect with the natural world and themselves.

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