Environment Movies

In a very claustrophobic environment, this horror movie tells the story of Alma: a shy girl who gets stuck with Eduardo inside an elevator.

Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial...

Years after an avian-spread disease forces humanity into secluded cities, a foolhardy scientist and his wife, a wayward survivor, spend a night at a...

More than two decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic...

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed...

In the depths of the Colombian jungle, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked away. It has turned into a delusional tourist...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal...

Forest Mind is a video work that emerges from the artist’s longstanding interest in the human interaction with the natural world. Forest Mind...

Drawing from 14 years of stunning footage, Gladice is a fairytale documentary about a glacier who develops a relationship with an Arctic photographer...

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....

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film...

Political film essay in which events happening around the Mediterranean Sea are compared to the myth of Icarus.

Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for...

An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem....

In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest. Through fragments of lives that...

Explores the battle between New England's close-knit fishing communities and a coalition of environmental conservationists. Focusing on two women...