Environment Movies

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is...

Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for...

Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of...

With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning...

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has...

Capturing Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the...

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.

The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an...

Narrated by Matt Damon, Plan B is a 90 minute documentary based on the book by environmental visionary Lester Brown. Shot on location around the...

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight...

The vessel is Infinity, a 120-foot hand-built sailboat, crewed by a band of miscreants. The journey, an 8,000 mile Pacific crossing from New Zealand...

Angolan director and screenwriter Pocas Pascoal reminds us that it’s time for a change, proposing through this film a look at colonialism,...

In this detective story, filmmaker Cullen Hoback investigates the largest chemical drinking water contamination in a generation. But something is...

In a contemporary reimagining of the American West, three young women - a snake hunter, a New York artist, and a rodeo queen - challenge the idea of...

This documentary depicts a vivid example of America's current culture war. It shows a rural community, Philomath, Oregon, that is making a large...

Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child...