Environment
see all genres ›World leaders may not be doing enough for our global ecology but filmmakers certainly are. The body of documentaries on various important environmental issues is large and constantly growing larger.
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The Pearl Button
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious...Watch Movie
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Nostalgia For the Light
For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Tokyo Waka
TOKYO WAKA is as much a carefully-etched, lyrical portrait of Tokyo and its denizens as it is a full-fledged rendering of the surprisingly rich life of crows. A tofu seller, a homeless woman and a Buddhist priest contemplate mortality, the metabolism of their city and garbage, while around them...Watch Movie
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Commune
In 1968, two hippies hiking near Mt. Shasta in Northern California stumbled across an unlikely property for sale: an abandoned goldmine and surrounding land, 300 acres for $22,000. Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought the property and named it...Watch Movie
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Storm Children
With striking black & white photography, this critically-acclaimed observational documentary from Philippine master Lav Diaz takes stock of the devastation wrought by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on the Philippine coastal town of Tacloban. The film, which follows three children as they cope with the...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Araya
The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant film ARAYA is a landmark in cinema history. The film was hailed as a masterpiece of poetic cinema and a forerunner of feminist Latina cinema on its re-release by Milestone. The peninsula of Araya in northeastern Venezuela, is one of the most arid...Watch Movie
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Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui
TELOS chronicles the unorthodox life and revolutionary work of Eugene Tssui, an eccentric visionary and a maverick architect. He questions traditional building standards and put nature and the environment at the forefront of his designs long before "green" and "eco-friendly"...Watch Movie
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The Yellow Bank
Capturing the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, THE YELLOW BANK takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki, who lived and worked in Shanghai nine years earlier, uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way...Watch Movie
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Fat Chance
Two fathers and three boys were celebrating high school graduation by sailing from San Francisco to Portland in their boat, Fat Chance. Thirty-five miles off the coast of Point Reyes, they were hit by a rogue wave. Two members of the crew washed overboard and one of the boys was killed. The...Watch Movie
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Two Years at Sea
Using 16mm cameras, artist Ben Rivers documents the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of a remote forest. The film follows his unconventional life, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally,...Watch Movie
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Great Wide Open: Independence Day
A documentary series celebrating America's National Parks and the incredible adventurers who explore them. Directed by Jared Leto and produced in partnership with Budweiser. Featuring Sasha DiGiulian. Jared and Sasha climb together and celebrate the 4th of July at the famous...Watch Movie
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Single Stream
A singular appreciation of waste processing (graceful, mesmeric and almost balletic), SINGLE STREAM plunges viewers into the steady flow of a materials recycling facility where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted each day. Yet another revelatory documentary from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography...Watch Movie
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River Memories
Over one thousand people of different nationalities live among rats and rubbish in shacks slapped together out of metal sheets and wood. It's the platz, one of the largest shanty towns in Europe, on the banks of the river Stura in Turin. Many children, women, and old people have been living here...Watch Movie
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The Bear
Set in 19th-century British Columbia, THE BEAR follows the story of a young cub and an adult grizzly as they join forces to survive the perils inherent in their mountain habitat. With each passing obstacle, the two bears further develop a friendship that can only make them stronger – but will it...Watch Movie
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Above and Below
This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society. It tells the stories of April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and a man who calls himself 'The Godfather.' From a couple scraping by in the depths of the flood channels located beneath Sin...Watch Movie
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The Unforeseen
The politics behind the environmental movement is the subject of this acclaimed, award-winning documentary from director Laura Dunn and executive producers Terrence Malick and Robert Redford. In the 1980s, at the height of the Reagan era, developer Gary Bradley came to Austin, Texas to capitalize...Watch Movie
