Ecology
see all genres ›The preservation of Mother Earth wasn't much of a concern until about a half-century ago when it began dawning on some that humanity might actually run its resources dry. Since then, activist cinema has found myriad topics to explore and expose in our planet's polluted health.
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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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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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The Town That Was
In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mining town of over 3,000 people. By the mid-1980s, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked...Watch Movie
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This is Nowhere
Each year tens of thousands of travelers steer their RVs into Wal-Mart parking lots to "camp" for a night or two. Not because they have to. Rather, because they want to. Just as they seek out national parks and historic sites, RV travelers have marked Wal-Mart stores as travel destinations. Full...Watch Movie
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Le jardin d'Ewald
The attempt of Senegalese people to outwit one of the greatest mass murderers of our time. Silently, insidiously and always with full force, the overpowering villain, which the Senegalese have to oppose year after year carries the name 'drought.' Drought and the disappearance...Watch Movie
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Sirmilik
As filmed by Zacharias Kunuk and scored by Andrew Whiteman, Dean Stone and Tanya Tagag, Sirmilik ("Place of Glaciers") National Park in Nunavut, in the Arctic Cordillera of Canada, is a place of mighty mountains blanketed by snow in winter and denuded brown rocks in summer. An Inuit man talks of...Watch Movie
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Night Vision
Canadian director/film editor Stéphane Lafleur's breathtaking contribution to Canada's National Parks Project, NIGHT VISION actualizes the fears and desires of a young girl with stunning images of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, at night. Haunting music by Mathieu Charbonneau, Andre...Watch Movie
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Brave New West
An off-the-wall odyssey that tells the story of how one man's passion for the natural world fueled the creation of an extraordinary and unlikely institution in the American West. It also shows how the passion of youth is tempered and ripens with age into a balanced view of a natural world. Jim...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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The Naturalist
Kent Bonar, who has been called the "John Muir of the Ozarks," is one of America's great naturalists. Living without modern amenities in the tradition of Thoreau, Leopold and Muir, Bonar has spent his life observing and recording the natural history of the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks. THE...Watch Movie
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Varmints
VARMINTS is a powerful, engaging, and surprisingly humorous expose of the strained relations between people and wildlife in the American West. The film artfully unravels the controversy surrounding this unassuming little rodent, leaving viewers to ponder questions about the ethics of hunting for...Watch Movie
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Looking Around Without Blinking
One of the most ravishing of the "National Parks Project" commemorating the centennial of Canada's national park system, Scott Smith's contribution begins underwater amidst the sway of ocean flora off British Columbia's Gwaii Haanas shoreline. It then rises to terra firma and...Watch Movie
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Destination: Rossport, Ireland
In 2005, five men from Rossport, Ireland, were sent to jail for ninety-four days because they would not allow Shell Oil to put a gas pipeline through their land. Filmmaker Jim Kerns goes to this remote town in the northwest of Ireland to examine the conflict and the...Watch Movie
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Libby, Montana
A small company town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of a widespread toxic contaminant in U.S. history. Now, the U.S. government has determined that nearly one quarter of the residents have some form of asbestos-related lung abnormality. LIBBY, MONTANA is the story of the...Watch Movie
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Material
Ontario's Bruce Peninsula National Park and Fathom Five National Marine Park awaken the memories of a seeker of something familiar in Daniel Cockburn's contribution to Canada's National Parks Project. As the seeker negotiates the terrain with naïve voiceover conversations about the materiality of...Watch Movie
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Paahtomahksikimii
Peter Lynch's entry in Canada's National Parks Project takes in somewhat melancholy look at Wateron Lakes National Park, "The Place Where Lakes Go Into the Mountains." Slow pans of the land, eagle calls, rain, flowing water and Blackfoot drums and chanting intermingle with...Watch Movie
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Cape Breton
Filmmaker Keith Behrman offers a meditative look at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, part of Canada's National Parks Project. With zen-like music and narration from Tony Dekker, Old Man Luedecke and Daniela Gesundheit, the film cuts between an aged Buddhist monk and the...Watch Movie
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Nile Perch
In flickering black and white, NILE PERCH tracks a fish from a fisherman’s line on Lake Victoria in Uganda to export commodity. This hand-made film is a modern-day parable of the effects of globalization on Africa as well as meditation on the economic and ecological impact of an invasive species.Watch Movie
