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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind *Manufactured Landscapes* and *Watermark* and is narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the...
Publisher
Yukon Film Society
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Allan Code's MEMORY TRAP: THE HERD THAT WOULDN'T DISAPPEAR weaves together interviews of biologists, elders, authors, conservation officers and hunters with footage from some of the most remote corners of the Yukon wilderness to tell the incredible story of the Fortymile Caribou herd. In 1920, the Fortymile Caribou herd had numbers in the 600,000's, only to dwindle to 4,000 in the 1970's. Follow Code over the course of a year through the remote wilderness...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Hadza, East Africa's last remaining true hunter-gatherers, have lived on their land near the Rift Valley for over 50,000 years. As globalization and technology encroach on their territory, their way of life has been slowly whittled away from them. This documentary serves as a comprehensive look at their customs -- from dating rituals to schooling to foraging to weapons production -- as explained by several natives and noted anthropologists. Animations...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
UMA: A WATER CRISIS IN BOLIVIA tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a national water crisis. The government has consistently supported the expansion of mining, granting miners unrestricted water access and failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws. UMA, the Aymara word for water, takes us on a journey from the tropical...
65) Fast Fashion
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tons of clothes are sold every year. In Europe, the amount purchased has almost doubled since the year 2000. Thanks to fast disposable fashion, you can constantly renew your wardrobe. But producing clothes at such a low price has a very high environmental cost. This film explores the bad practices of the textile industry, the most polluting industry in the world after oil.
66) The Sensitives
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the increasing number of people who are suffering from environmental illnesses, the modern world is full of unseen threats. Pesticides, perfumes, cell phones—any of these can send these individuals into a debilitating downward spiral. Stunningly cinematic, THE SENSITIVES documents three families struggling with these issues. Joe, too sick to care for himself, faces an impossible choice: an uncertain future with his ever-burdened family or the...
67) Blame Game
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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, and much of it is exported to a toxic dump in Ghana where scavengers do their best to salvage what they can. BLAME GAME investigates the murky world of global electronic waste disposal, where legal grey areas, a lack of investment in recycling, unscrupulous businesses and politicised application of the existing...
68) Sustenance
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A challenge by a group of friends with different diets takes the viewers on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability.
69) Go further
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
GO FURTHER explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviours. The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist,...
70) Seasons
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Directors of the Oscar-nominated, *Winged Migration*) return to the lush green forests that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature. Nominated for the Films4Families Youth Jury Award at the **Seattle International Film Festival.** *"Another testament...
71) Burned
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary takes a hard look at the latest false solution to climate change: woody biomass. It tells the story of how biomass has become the alternative-energy savior for the power-generation industry. The film is a visceral account of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel. Winner of an Audience Choice Award at the **American Conservation Film Festival**.
72) Behold the Earth
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A music-rich documentary film that explores America’s divorce from the outdoors through conversations with legendary scientists, as well as a new generation of creation-care activists within America’s Christian communities.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Brosnan. Discover what’s at stake for Hawaii from local activists, scientific experts, and healthcare professionals as they expose the effects of pesticide use and the environmental injustice on a local population.
75) I love the earth
Author
Publisher
LB Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"We can all help protect the earth and make it feel good. If we take care of it, it will take care of us!" --back cover.
76) When You Breathe
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A poetic and visually breathtaking look at what happens inside your body when you breathe What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath -- the very air, stardust, the grand molecules of the universe -- blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world.
77) Peninsula Mitre
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
The Gauchos del Mar brothers (producers of the films *Gauchos Del Mar* and *Tierra de Patagones*) perform an unprecedented 400 KM expedition by foot with over 35kgs on their backs during 53 days on the easternmost tip of Tierra del Fuego Province in Argentina, a pristine area where no one lives. The brothers have the goal of surfing a world-class wave never ridden before at the Cape San Diego Lighthouse, the most easterly point. To get there...
78) Learning to See
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this documentary shot by photographer Robert Oelman's son over a 12 year period, the audience travels with Oelman deep into the rain forests of South America to discover the world's most exotic insects. Winner of the Neapolitan Award at the **Naples International Film Festival**. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the **Santa Fe Independent Film Festival**. *"Robert Oelman's son [director] Jake honors his father's story in this...
79) Right to Harm
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, RIGHT TO HARM exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens throughout the United States. Filmed across the country, the documentary chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal agriculture. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations – or CAFOs – these facilities produce millions of gallons of untreated...
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
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