FILM
Don’t Look Up - 2021
fiction
Don’t Look Up is bout politicians and general public ignoring scientists when they attempt to warn the public about an approaching comet that will destroy Earth - not technically about climate change but was made as a commentary on lack of concern and action on climate change. Found on Netflix
Seaspiracy - 2021
documentary
About the environmental impacts of fishing and human impacts on sea and marine life. Found on Netflix
The Next Great Extinction Event - 2020
Documentary
Scientists explain the large losses in biodiversity caused by humans and how we are on track to cause the 6th mass extinction event in earth’s history. On Amazon Prime. And Magellan TV
Extinction: The Facts - 2020
Documentary
Explores how human actions are contributing to extinction, and how biodiversity is linked to epidemics (such as Ebola). Provides possible solutions to decreasing rapid biodiversity loss. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Artifishal - 2019
documentary
Produced by Patagonia, exploring the impacts of overfishing, specifically wild salmon (nearing extinction), and documenting the exploitation of fish farms. IMDB Link
The Human Element - 2019
documentary
The four elements are being altered by a fifth element - human activity. Follows an environmental photographer who visits Americans facing climate change impacts. Homepage for documentary.
RiverBlue - 2017
Documentary
Follows a conservationist’s journey around the world, examining damage to water supplies caused by the fashion industry. IMDB Link
Powerful Feature films, documentaries and Youtube videos
2040
2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important now. Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations. #WhatsYour2040
Taking Action on Climate Change (February 21, 2019)
This five-part video series, created by the Alberta Museums Association in partnership with the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice and Shadow Light Productions Ltd, demonstrates how museums continue to facilitate and lead conversations around issues that are important to their communities as well as finding innovative and inclusive solutions that impact their future.
Museums and the Climate Challenge (2018)
Youtube video by the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. See also Youtube video by Robert R. Janes: Museums and Climate Change.
Taking Action on Climate Change (2018)
Video series created by the Alberta Museums Association and the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice, in partnership with Shadow Light Productions.
The videos address ways for individuals and organization to engage in climate change action and are intended to be integrated into museum exhibit spaces and online platforms as a free educational tool. They are also a follow-up to Museums and the Climate Challenge, that was aimed at museum professionals with the intention to mobilize the museum sector to think differently about their role in climate change awareness and resiliency.
AMA Vimeo page (downloadable)
AMA website – video links (viewable
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
http://aninconvenientsequel.com/
"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, funny and poignant — 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."
IMDB 6.2/10
Climate hustle (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Hustle
Climate Hustle is a 2016 film rejecting the existence and cause of climate change, narrated by climate change denialist[1] Marc Morano, produced and directed by Christopher Rogers, co-written by Morano and Mick Curran, and funded by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free market pressure group funded by the fossil fuel lobby.
IMDB 6.5/10
Before the flood (2016)
https://www.beforetheflood.com/
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced as a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Packer, Brett Ratner, Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. (Wikipedia)
IMDB 7.3/10
It’s tomorrow (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Tomorrow_(film)
Its Tomorrow is an upcoming Indian film about Climate Change written by Dr. Rajeshkumar Acharya and is being directed by Zanane Rajsingh. The film is being jointly produced Nanoland Group (USA & India). It is being produced in two parts in the USA along with breath-taking visuals shot in natural calamity occurring regions of the world including Japan, Tibet, Philippines, Argentina, Iceland and India. It will be dubbed in nine languages and is scheduled to release in November 2014. It will be dubbed in nine languages and is scheduled to release 2015 - 2016.
The anthropologist (2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anthropologist_(film)
The Anthropologist is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger of Ironbound Films.[1] The film follows environmental anthropologist Susie Crate and her teenage daughter Katie as they visit indigenous communities threatened by climate change. Featuring commentary from Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, the film explores how human beings adapt to catastrophic change.
IMDB 7.3/10
Climate change denial disorder (2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Denial_Disorder
Climate Change Denial Disorder (CCDD) is a satirical short film which parodies climate change denial and perspectives on climate changethrough discussion of a fictional disease. The film stars actors Ed Begley Jr., Timothy Brennan, and Susan Yeagley. It was directed by Carly Usdin, written by Nicol Paone, and produced by Brianne Trosie. The film was released on April 14, 2015, by comedy video website and film/TV production company Funny or Die and on April 16 to YouTube.
Tomorrow (2015) (original title: Demain)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4449576/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Tomorrow: Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
IMDB 8.1/10
If you love your children (2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Love_Your_Children
If You Love Your Children is a 2014 Canadian short film - depicting climate change, directed and produced by Sanjay Patel. The film has received many awards and nominations since its release in August 2014. If You Love Your Children is a story of Raj, an engineer working in the energy industry who wants to write a book about climate change. In his quest to get the book published, he loses everything - his job, his girl and his hope. But Raj finds his commitment to be stronger than his desires and in the end, he rises above his losses to realize his dream.
IMDB 9.1/10
Chasing ice (2012)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Ice
Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) to publicize the effects of climate change, directed by Jeff Orlowski.[1] It was released in the United States on November 16, 2012.
IMDB 7.8/10
Carbon nation (2010)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Nation
Carbon Nation is a 2010 documentary film by Peter Byck about technological- and community-based energy solutions to the growing worldwide carbon footprint. The film is narrated by Bill Kurtis. ASIN: B0055T46LA (Rental) and B0055T46G0 (Purchase).
IMDB 6.9/10
CLimate Refugees: The Global Human Impact of Climate Change (2010)
https://www.videoproject.com/Climate-Refugees.html
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences. Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Little is being done to plan for the potential mass migration of millions of refugees who will be forced to cross national borders. According to the UN, there are already more environmental refugees in the world than political or religious refugees. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase “climate wars” is being talked about in war-rooms. The filmmakers traveled the world for nearly 3 years to document the impact of climate change, witnessing inhabitants of countries forced to leave their homes by climatic events with little or no protection. The film features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. All make a strong case that, whether human-caused or a product of nature, the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and will inevitably lead to worldwide political instability. Climate Refugees was filmed in Bangladesh, Tuvalu, China, Fiji, Chad, Sudan, Kenya, Maldives, Europe and the US.
IMDB 8.1/10
The age of stupid (2009)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Stupid
The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British documentary film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel (1997) and Drowned Out (2002), and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The executive producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September (1999).
IMDB 7.1/10
The great global warming swindle (2007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
The Great Global Warming Swindle is a polemical documentary film that suggests that this the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on global warming exists. The program was formally criticised by Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulatory agency, which upheld complaints of misrepresentation made by David King.
IMDB 6.8/10
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times. The idea to document his efforts came from producer Laurie David, who saw his presentation at a town-hall meeting on global warming, which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by Gore's slide show that she, with producer Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film. (Wikipedia)
IMDB 7.5/10
The day after tomorrow (2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American climate science fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age.[2] Filmed in Toronto and Montreal, it is the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada (adjusted for inflation). (Wikipedia)
IMDB 6.4/10
The Venus TheorY (2004)
https://www.videoproject.com/The-Venus-Theory.html
"Featuring the pioneering work of world renowned scientist Dr. Charles Keeling, The Venus Theory clearly explains the science behind global warming. Dr. Keeling's recordings of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. His research showed that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has grown significantly in recent years from 315 ppm in 1958, with the increases correlated to fossil fuel emissions. The film interviews leading scientists from around the world who present their projections that the Earth may warm 4-10 degrees by the end of the century, and what consequences this holds for our planet and various species, including humankind. Our "sister" planet Venus is cited as an example in which natural events created "runaway" global warming, making life impossible. The scientists explore whether the Earth's temperature may one day equal that of Venus."
IMDB 7.6/10
Waterworld (1995)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterworld
Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic science fiction action film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it with Charles Gordon and John Davis. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. (Wikipedia)
IMDB 6.1/10
Sans soleil (1983)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_Soleil
The essay film Sans Soleil, moves between actual and fabricated stories and images, narrated by the female protagonist who reads letters seemingly sent from a fictitious cameraman named Sandor Krasna. The blending of innocent scenes such as the Icelandic children at the start of the film, are contrasted with others which are violently explicit, for example witnessing the same location at the end of the film covered in ash. The film evidences the shift in locations and also the changes in the environment, which highlights the fleeting and transient temporalities due to climate change.
IMDB 8.1/10
Swamp (1971)
This film follows Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt moving through the swamp. Holt has limited visibility, only relying on her vision through the recording camera’s viewfinder, along with the directions given by Smithson. The camera lens becomes Holt’s optical lens, and because of this the audience visually experiences the process of moving through the swamp with the artists. The vision, which is blurred, could symbolize our personal experience of moving through the changing climate, and our individual and collective role in sustaining the environment.