Environmental Documentary Movies

Our planet is running out of drinking water. Only a vanishingly small proportion of the world's water is available as usable fresh water. This...

Sand is the second-most exploited resource in the world. In Southeast Asia, escalating demand fuels an opaque trade. Hourglass, an immersive...

Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

What is a whale worth? What price can be put on the life of such majestic animals? How can we estimate that cost? And how have humans changed the way...

Ahead of the COP26 climate change summit taking place in Glasgow, Kieran Hodgson presents this irreverent documentary in which he and an all-star...

A documentary that introduces FIT Hives, a student-run organization whose mission is to educate the FIT community about the importance of bees to the...

In an era of throw-away ease, convenience has cost us our well-being. Plastics have been found inside our bodies— in our colons, our brains,...

After traveling the globe to highlight low-tech, Corentin de Chatelperron has set himself a new challenge: to live independently, alone for four...

This underwater ballet is an ecological story depicting our paradoxical relationship with plastic. Bakelite launched the #SickOfPlastic campaign from...

Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and what it has taught us about global co-operation in...

The documentary follows leaders and community members from the tropical Pacific island nation who are making bold changes to move the needle on...

Bird entanglement from fishing gear is a global catastrophe. Unhooked tells the story of the world’s longest fishing pier, where bird rescuers...

A group of young architects, confined to a forest in Barcelona during the COVID crisis, explore the problems generated by the ambition of wanting to...

The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. This film...

This short film follows an intoxicated character's journey through the mystery, beauty and eeriness of his environment.