Environmentalism Movies

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student clashes with her family while investigating a...

Activist/author Edward Abbey's legacy lives on in his best-selling books and now in director ML Lincoln's lively documentary. Lincoln pays tribute to...

An uplifting story about two best friends, Isaac and James and their discovery of the cause and effect relationship between our cities' storm drains...

In a world marked by war against nature, Maya tries to avenge her daughter who was murdered by animals. When she encounters the soul of a powerful...

Built on a layer of frozen earth, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada has subarctic winters where temperatures routinely drop below −40°C. Meet the...

Harmful chemicals are disproportionately affecting Black communities in Southern Louisiana along the Mississippi River. I am One of the People is an...

Autumn 1998: An act of eco-extremism results in tragedy and a once headstrong activist is pitted against a future for her son or a life with him.

There's No Tomorrow is a half-hour animated documentary about resource depletion, energy and the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet.

A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.

Bright Green Lies investigates the change in focus of the mainstream environmental movement, from its original concern with protecting nature, to its...

Mauri (life principle, life force, vital essence inherent in all living things) The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a...

In the Greenland ice sheet we can see our future. The film travels with three pioneering glaciologist on their expeditions INTO the inland ice of...

The story of the Monarch butterfly: a symbol of American pride and the embodiment of the returning dead in Mexico. It would be a happy story, only,...

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...

This movie was created to highlight the overwhelming amount of scientific information pointing to human extinction in the very near future.

A compilation of conferences/debates between renowned designers, environmental activists, and students on the concept of design. Held in Aspen,...

In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing...

A young girl is trying to save an island which is endangered by nearby construction.

Set in the rural town of Marmora; the home of Punkfest, arsenic poisoning, radioactive pollution, and visions of the Virgin Mary.

Catron County, New Mexico -- the 'toughest county in the West' -- has been at the center of a struggle between ranchers, loggers, environmentalists,...