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20 Best Documentary Films on the Environment

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Disarm. (2005)

The past placement of landmines in battle zones around the globe has made Earth a trecherous place for entire populations of people who can neither till the soil nor walk across a field for fear of stepping on and triggering an explosive device that will surely maim if not kill them. It's a real problem that indicates one way in which we disrespect and undervalue our environment and one that actually alters the way in which we relate to Mother Earth.More »

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets: The Race to Save Marine Fisheries

A project of Habitat Media, this film reveals environmental dangers that arise from current commercial fishing practices that threaten the ocean's healthy environments worldwide by depleting populations of fish.Unless the harvest is managed in the present, future nets will come up empty. Peter Coyote narrates.More »


Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide (2009)

According to a World Bank study, demand for water will exceed supply by 40 percent within twenty years. By presenting an overview of flooding, drought, and other water-related disasters in Bangladesh, India and New Orleans, director Jim Burrough's Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide is a look into the future of fresh water access and control, which many believe will be the cause for World War III.More »


FLOW - For Love Of Water (2008)

Irena Salinas' documentary is about the global crisis we face as Earth's fresh water supply constantly diminishes. The film presents top experts and advocates to show us that every aspect of human life is effected by pollution, wastefulness, privatization and corporate greed as it relates to a natural resource that's more valuable than oil. The film shows in no uncertain terms that if we continue to abuse our water supply, Earth will become uninhabitable and humankind will become extinct. The investigation points fingers at water companies such as Nestle, Vivendi, Thames, Suez, Coca Cola and Pepsi.


Food, Inc. (2009)


'Food, Inc.' investigates the industrial production and distribution of food in the United States by large multinational corporations such as Monsanto and Tyson, to the detriment of small independent farmers and to the overall quality of nutrition.More »


The Garden (2008)


The Garden is about the South Central Farmers, a group of dirt-poor Los Angelenos who took a track of urban ruin and turned it into an Eden--only to see the flora they so lovingly planted and tended be bulldozed by a selfish land owner. This film is about their dignity, determination and their fight to preserve their garden--and what they've done to recover from its loss.More »


Manda Bala (2007)


Manda Bala is a documentary film about the violent class struggle in Brazil, and how cottage industries have sprung up around the frequent kidnappings that occur as the rich steal from the poor and the poor take revenge. And about frog farms in the Amazon.More »


King Corn (2007)

Eco-activists Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis plant and harvest an acre of corn, then trace their crop as it's processed into food products that nurture the increasingly obese and unhealthy--and always hungry--American population. The underlying theme is that extreme agro-engineering has a negative effect on the environment and its inhabitants.Still in theatrical release, the film is not yet available on DVD.More »


Trouble The Water (2008)


In Trouble The Water, filmmakers Tia Lessen and Carl Deal follow a New Orleans Ninth Ward couple, Kimberly and Scott Roberts, who've survived Hurricane Katrina with some remarkable footage of the devastating hurricane and its aftermath. We see what happens to people and society when Mother Nature takes her toll on an area that humans claim to have tamed. More »


Up The Yangtze (2008)

Up The Yangtze takes you cruising on China's mightiest river to meet people who's lives are altered by contstruction of Three Gorges Dam, built to harness hydro power. Effect on lives of countless citizens relocated from flooded river banks has been devastating. The dam's construction has played ecological havoc along the historic waterway's entire length. It's ironic that tourism Up the Yangtze swells as waters rise to forever engulf the famously scenic Three Gorges landscape. This film, which won several prestigious Cinema Eye Awards, raises questions about short term economic gains versus long term ecolological loses.More »
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