Wildlife
Playlist Highlights Wildlife Conservation Efforts Worldwide
From the great apes to beluga whales to baby turtles, this Watch Now Playlist showcases successful efforts to protect threatened animals and their habitats — and, in the case of wolves and bison, the role reintroduction can play in returning ecosystems to balance. Scroll down to begin watching.
OR visit the full Watch Now page to explore 500+ titles from past years of the Festival. Watch Now connects viewers to where they can stream these films online. And over 300 of these can be watched directly on our website for free!
Finding Gulo
Festival Year: 2022
Follows a backcountry ski guide & field biologist who set out to document an elusive population of wolverines. This short film celebrates the power of citizen science to protect endangered wildlife in the face of climate change.
Tyler Wilkinson-Ray & Colin Arisman | US | 26 min.
La Voz del Mar: Hope for Hawksbill Turtles
Festival Year: 2022
Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered globally, but today, grassroots conservation is delivering renewed hope for hawksbills in El Salvador. Each year, tens of thousands of hatchlings now begin their amazing life journey.
Jon Bougher | US | 8 min.
Forgotten But Not Gone
Festival Year: 2020
Discover a world of drugs, the timber industry, and a controversial decision not to list Pacific fisher under the Endangered Species Act. This story pulls back the veil on the lead-up to that surprise decision and what it means for their future.
Morgan Heim | US | 9 min.
Canis Lupus Colorado
Festival Year: 2018
Ghosts are stirring in Colorado’s high country. They haunt the trees, the water, the animals – the very fabric of the land itself. Gray wolves shaped this place for eons. This is the story of the past, present, and future of Colorado’s now extinct native wolf population.
Eric Bendick | US | 18 min.
Person of the Forest
Festival Year: 2018
In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, new research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors in wild orangutans. With their habitat disappearing at an alarming rate, this research may prove to be key in protecting this critically endangered species.
Melissa Lesh & Tim Laman | US | 17 min.
Boy-zshan Bi-den (Buffalo Return)
Festival Year: 2018
Bison were nearly exterminated across North America. Thanks to the Shoshone tribe and the National Wildlife Federation, bison have finally been brought back the Wind River Indian Reservation and a landscape that they once defined.
Colin Ruggiero | US | 9 min.