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Understanding our changing environment, and the impact which we can have on it (for better or worse) is key to the future of humanity.

Environment Collection

  • Deep Rising
    Deep Rising
    Director: Matthieu Rytz   | Year of production: 2023
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 86 min.

    Matthieu Rytz returns to Sundance (Anote’s Ark, 2018) with this up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the machinations of a secretive organization empowered to green light massive extraction of metals from the deep seafloor that are deemed essential to the electric battery revolution.

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  • An Inconvenient Sequel
    An Inconvenient Sequel
    Director: Bonni Cohen   Jon Shenk   | Year of production: 2017
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 100 min.

    A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought the climate crisis into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public – as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.

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  • Nuclear Now
    Nuclear Now
    Director: Oliver Stone   | Year of production: 2023
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 106 min.

    With unprecedented access to France, Russia, and the United States’ nuclear industry, Nuclear Now envisions a world where nuclear energy triumphs over climate change and energy poverty. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms hold an incredible energy reserve, unlocked during the mid-20th century for bombs and submarines. As societies transitioned from fossil fuels to nuclear power, a long-term PR campaign, funded by coal and oil, aimed to sow public fear of harmless low-level radiation and blur the line between nuclear weapons and energy. Oliver Stone reminds us that knowledge conquers fear, and our human ingenuity can tackle the climate crisis.

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  • Chasing Ice
    Chasing Ice
    Director: Jeff Orlowski   | Year of production: 2012
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 75 min.

    In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.
    Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.

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  • Food Chains
    Food Chains
    Director: Sanjay Rawal   | Year of production: 2014
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 82 min.

    There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
    Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets.

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  • Happening
    Happening
    Director: James Redford   | Year of production: 2017
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 71 min.

    Filmmaker James Redford embarks on a colorful personal journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. Unlikely entrepreneurs in communities from Georgetown, TX to Buffalo, NY reveal pioneering clean energy solutions while James’ discovery of how clean energy works, and what it means at a personal level, becomes the audiences’ discovery too. Reaching well beyond a great story of technology and innovation, “Happening” explores issues of human resilience, social justice, embracing the future, and finding hope for our survival.

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  • Human Flow
    Human Flow
    Director: Ai Weiwei   | Year of production: 2017
    Country of production: Germany, USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 140 min.

    Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact, following a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey.

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  • Kiss the Ground
    Kiss the Ground
    Director: Josh Tickell   Rebecca Tickell   | Year of production: 2020
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 84 / 47 min.

    A revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians band together in a global movement of “Regenerative Agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.

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  • Powerless
    Powerless
    Director: Fahad Mustafa   Deepti Kakkar   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: India | Language: English, Urdu (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 80/52 min.

    Would you risk your life to flip a switch?
    Shariq, a 22-year-old electrician living in Kanpur, is renowned for his prowess in stealing electricity. In the face of day-long power-cuts, he runs illegal connections from one neighborhood to another so that homes, factories and businesses are not left in the dark. Meanwhile, the city administration is renewing its efforts to clamp down on power-theft, which costs them millions of rupees in losses each year. Powerless sheds light on the opposing corners of this political ring, from an electrical Robin Hood to the myopic utility company.

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  • Seeding Change
    Seeding Change
    Director: Richard Yelland   | Year of production: 2020
    Country of production: USA | Language: English, Portuguese (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 51 min.

    20 years ago, a young group of social entrepreneurs joined a movement to change the world through the pursuit of an alternative economic model and practice of conscious commerce. Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce is about “triple bottom line” businesses that consider the social, environmental and financial impacts of their companies and address some of today’s most challenging issues. Seeding Change is an award-winning documentary empowering viewers to be part of the solution by voting with their dollars and supporting the brands and products that align with their values.

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  • Sonic Sea
    Sonic Sea
    Director: Michelle Dougherty   Daniel Hinerfeld   | Year of production: 2016
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 60 min.

    Oceans are a sonic symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life. But man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world.
    Sonic Sea is a powerful, visually stunning documentary about the impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. It tells the story of a former US Navy officer who solved a tragic mystery and changed forever the way we understand our impact on the ocean. The film is narrated by Rachel McAdams and features Sting, in addition to the renowned ocean experts Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Paul Spong, Dr. Christopher Clark and Jean-Michel Cousteau.

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  • The Campaign Against The Climate
    The Campaign Against The Climate
    Director: Mads Ellesøe   | Year of production: 2020
    Country of production: Denmark | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 53 min.

    In 1988, the world was preparing to act against climate change. But then something happened. Something that led to the climate crisis that the world has woken up to today. The planet’s largest oil companies were among the first to detect global warming, but instead of acting they launched a campaign that for 30 years has derailed the fight against climate change. ‘The Campaign Against the Climate’ is an in-depth documentary that reveals how things could go so badly wrong – and who was behind it all. Through internal documents and interviews with those involved, we observe at close quarters how the oil industry for years ran an international campaign that tricked people all over the world.

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  • The Islands and the Whales
    The Islands and the Whales
    Director: Mike Day   | Year of production: 2016
    Country of production: Denmark, United Kingdom | Language: Danish, English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 81/52 min.

    The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever. As the islanders come to terms with the health revelations, they face increasing pressure from the outside world to stop the whale hunts.

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  • The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
    The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
    Director: Camilla Becket   James Becket   | Year of production: 2021
    Country of production: Australia, USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 82 min.

    How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the ecological food movement, and is inspiring an international crusade for change.

    In her colorful sari and large scarlet bindi, Dr. Vandana Shiva is an arresting presence: She galvanizes crowds, advises government leaders, fields constant calls from the media—then then retreats from big-city buzz to work alongside small farmers across the developing world.

    Who is she? What is her mission? How did this woman from an obscure town in India become Monsanto’s worst nightmare: a rebellious rock star in the global debate about who feeds the world?

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  • This Changes Everything
    This Changes Everything
    Director: Avi Lewis   | Year of production: 2015
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 90 min.

    Filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
    Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller of the same name, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
    Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there.

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  • Toxic Hot Seat
    Toxic Hot Seat
    Director: James Redford   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 91 min.

    Chemical flame retardants are everywhere. Our furniture. Our homes. Our bodies. But do they work as promised? And are they making us sick?
    The three chemical companies producing flame retardants would prefer that we not ask these questions, and they’ve spent millions of dollars on lobbyists, publicists and influencers to ensure that we don’t. Through the personal stories of a cancer-surviving firefighter, a renowned chemist, and a determined young Maine legislator, TOXIC HOT SEAT reveals the courage of brave citizens willing to fight for the truth against a shadowy nexus of money and politics.

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  • Virunga
    Virunga
    Director: Orlando von Einsiedel   | Year of production: 2014
    Country of production: USA | Language: English, French (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 90 min.

    In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on earth and home to the planet’s last remaining mountain gorillas. In this wild but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers – including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a caretaker of orphan gorillas and a dedicated conservationist – protect this UNESCO World Heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo’s rich natural resources.

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  • We Are As Gods
    We Are As Gods
    Director: David Alvarado   | Year of production: 2020
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 94 min.

    “WE ARE AS GODS offers a deep dive into the many sides of Stewart Brand—creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, an influential member of Ken Kesey’s “The Merry Pranksters,” and founder of the modern environmental movement. Brand’s approach to his work and life influenced many, including Steve Jobs, who have gone on to shape our modern world. Now in his 80’s, he looks to leave a legacy for the long-term future with his efforts to resurrect ecosystems through de-extinction.

    The man who coined the phrase “we are as gods and might as well get good at it” is now under fire from former allies who believe he’s gone too far, but Brand won’t be easily deterred from a mission he feels is necessary to save the future of the planet.”

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