Environmental Documentary Movies

A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an...

In Lopera (Jaén), the ecological transition has turned into a nightmare: centuries-old olive groves are being uprooted to make way for massive...

As more and more of us use and replace electronic devices, manufacturers have failed to offer solutions for how to deal with the resulting waste....

Over the past year, three young scientists have found unusual colored frogs in the wild in Latvia that are not typical for our region. A green frog...

On his ship "Calypso," as well as in a submarine, Jacques Cousteau and his crew sail from South America and travel to Antarctica. They explore...

The White Planet or in French, La Planète Blanche, is a 2006 documentary about the wildlife of the Arctic. It shows interactions between...

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists. The rural community of Belisário holds the country's second largest...

With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction...

Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has...

Tony and Ajani, two mushroom foragers based in Minneapolis, spend the day foraging at a local park and musing on the power of nature.

Looks at the baobab trees that grow in the dry bush country of Africa and shows the ecosystem created by them.

Living in an ancient redwood tree for more than two years to prevent the tree from being clear-cut, Julia Butterfly Hill captured our hearts and...

Shot over the course of 30 days at sea, filmmaker Alizé Jireh documents the group’s voyage across the North Atlantic—from moments...

Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of...

In the Mezquital Valley, inequality in the distribution of environmental goods and services has modified the collective environment of thousands of...

A journey through the Brazilian Amazon, guided by the eyes of Renato, a Carioca turned Amazorioca. A reflection on identity, the legacy of an...

Somber tides a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements. One last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe...

May Day! is a feature-length documentary which follows Oxford's thousand-year old tradition of May Morning, the largest celebration of its kind,...

At the border between Navarre and Aragon we find the moors known as the Bardenas Reales, characterized by the dust and the omnipresence of the...