Films

100 Years is the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell’s courageous fight for justice for 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral rich lands were mismanaged by the United States Government. For 30 years Elouise fought “the good fight.” This is the compelling true story of how she prevailed and made history.

Intolerable climate of the Arctic part of Yakutia. Permafrost. Most of the year the temperature is always negative and the ground is always cold. In winter the temperature reaches minus 65C below zero. There is no telephone or electricity. The lack of roads complicates traveling around. Living in such conditions is associated with daily struggles with the environment and yourself. Hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest settlement, one can count only on himself. These harsh lands attract people who look for freedom and independence.

Our hero is a horse-breeder, most of the year he lives in the mountains looking after the horses. Feeling like an outsider in his own house, Sergei almost lost touch with his family and he doesn't see his children grow up. Every year, Sergei spends more and more time away from the village and sees his family a few times a year: on a Horse-breeders’ Day and when he brings food (meat) home.

Harsh living conditions of the North make the man to make a really hard choice and see him for what he is.

From office buildings that produce more energy than they use to electric cars with style, visionary and entrepreneurial minds today are working across the globe…

From office buildings that produce more energy than they use to electric cars with style, visionary and entrepreneurial minds today are working across the globe…

Combining stunning scenery with insightful commentary on the state of river conservation, this is a powerful call to action for protecting our country’s remaining wild rivers for future generations.

  Rhino poaching is not a local problem anymore; it is a global issue. Five young people from around the world come to South Africa…

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, it has grown into a global phenomenon. Take a peek into the past to discover how Rachel Carson, Senator Gaylord Nelson, and other historical voices influenced the creation of this day.

Organic farmers in Tysons Corner, Va. reflect on a half-century of sustainable and community-focused agriculture. Directed by Aditi Desai. Executive produced by AU’s Center for…

When a Hispaniolan Emerald, one of the world’s smallest birds, builds its nest in a construction site, a rural community in the Dominican Republic faces…

Seashells have held an eternal fascination for many cultures. No other natural history objects, it could be argued, have more thoroughly gratified our human impulse…

A group of international artists explore the Arctic island chain of Svalbard. Streaming password: ice.

Bhutan is one of the hot spots of environmental preservation on earth as 70 percent of its surface is covered with forest and it hardly…

Pollution from fossil fuel emissions may be killing a $73 million dollar industry. The West coast oyster industry provides more than 3,000 jobs and has a total annual…

Remote areas of Baja California’s Peninsula are home to some of the last wild coasts on Earth.

After a sobering trip to film Cambodia's disappearing wildlife and rain forests, a filmmaker struggles to know how and when to tell his young children about the destruction of the natural world.

A Western environmental documentary, A Fistful of Rubbish is set in the Tabernas Desert in Spain — Europe’s only desert. An area known for being…

This film examines life in an isolated Amazigh community in the High Atlas Mountains. The thousand-year history of the Amazigh in Morocco has been primarily transmitted and preserved by bards and storytellers in oral form.

The Hudson River Valley has been called America's Serengeti, for the abundance of wildlife in what many wrongly consider to be a "dead" river.

A few years ago, Stéphanie left her Parisian life for the vast salt meadows of the Cherbourg Peninsula. The former graphic designer discovered a deep connection with this land by the sea where she now raises sheep.

Anders leaves his native Denmark for a teaching position in rural Greenland. As soon as he arrives, he finds himself at odds with the locals. Only through a clumsy and playful series of errors can Anders shake his Eurocentric assumptions and embrace their snow-covered way of life.

Meet Ailo, a newborn reindeer who embarks on an incredible odyssey with the help of his mother. Narrated by Donald Sutherland and set against the frozen majesty of northern Finland, this an uplifting story for the whole family.

Delicately details the journey of two students from Gustu, the groundbreaking cooking school and fine-dining restaurant founded by Noma's Claus Meyer in La Paz, Bolivia

Professional and citizen river keepers monitor and protect the rivers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The film is a tribute to the beauty of our rivers and to the individuals dedicated to protecting and preserving these living treasures.

Claver Ntoyinkima, a native park ranger, shares the secrets of Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda as he guides us through the forest.

Himawari 8, Japan's most advanced meteorological satellite, travels 35,786 km above Earth, at more than 11000 km/h. It observes the Eastern Hemisphere day and night. For one year we look through the eyes of the distant observer. From solstice to solstice, from pole to pole, from storm to storm, we watch Earth's beauty and fragility, weather's wonders, forces, and disasters. From space, it all looks miraculous.

The breathtaking landscapes and spectacular wildlife of Snowdonia National Park are seen through the eyes of people who know it best. This film follows a…

Eighteen months after the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, the children there are suffering from severe nosebleeds and are developing skin rashes and thyroid cysts. Citing…

One man risks his family and future to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land.

Architect Fernando Abruña Charneco prioritizes nature in his ingenious designs, including a self-sufficient house, a parachute house, and a solar electric car. In the 1970s,…

A wispy stretch of land from Russia to Lithuania becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: a dying forest of leafless trees overtaken by thousands of ancient black birds ruining the area with their acid-fortified feces.

Marine scientists across the world are racing to tackle the most urgent environmental challenge facing our planet today – ocean acidification. From the icy polar…

The critical but largely unknown problem of ocean acidification poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet.…

Despite the growing persistence of environmental change, human resourcefulness remains alive and well as people across the globe experiment with innovative adaptive methods on the ground.

The National Parks Climate Change Response program finds creative solutions to maintain the D.C. area’s great outdoor spaces amid rapidly changing environmental conditions. Directed and…

Showing as part of Shorts Program 6. The new normal of global climate change is, generally, a harrowing reality to contemplate. Cultural anthropologist Alizé Carrére helps…

The story of why one vegetarian decides to add aquaculture oysters to his diet. The foundation of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, oyster populations total less…

Siblings from Thailand, Norva and Jorpe, have unique abilities to communicate with nature. In this animated feature adventure they encounter the impetuous Sam, the son…

Nature’s ingenuity is fully revealed by the animals seen living in Africa’s extreme southwestern deserts. New and unusual behaviors are uncovered that ensure survival against…

Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn go on location with Oscar-winning director John Huston in the African countries of Kenya, Uganda and the Republic of Congo,…

On Earth Day 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, flooding the Gulf of Mexico with crude oil and devastating the coastline. Filmmaker Jon Bowermaster returns to the shores of Louisiana five years after the disaster, interviewing a rich cross-section of local denizens – fishermen, scientists, politicians, environmentalists, and oil-rig workers – to uncover the enduring impact of the catastrophe in a dogged investigation narrated by actress Melissa Leo. Has the Louisiana coastline been tainted forever? Will its economy and its ecosystem ever recover?

Investigates the all-too-common problem of wastewater overflows, and reveals a remarkable network of underground tunnels being constructed below the nation’s capital to try to stem the toxic tide.

In an era of rapid growth of mega-farms, the encroachment of suburbia, new European Union rules and reductions of agricultural subsidies, the farmers in the…

Aluminum is a fascinating metal: light, stainless and easy to process. One hundred years ago, it was still so exotic that it was presented at…

The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth, The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through…

As the average age of North American farmers approaches 60 years old, a new generation in the Pacific Northwest explores a future in agriculture by…

Albatross is a compelling visual journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on Earth, tens of thousands…

Presented with the Embassy of Switzerland The Great Aletsch Glacier is the biggest of its kind in the Alps. But with our climate changing, the glacier…

On the Dominican-Haitian border, the struggle to survive is getting harder every day. There is a lot of food being harvested, transported, and sold. But it ends up very far away.

In the small Czech village of Nošovice – as the locals put it – a UFO has landed in the form of a kilometer-long factory:…

A year after wildfires ravaged Northern California’s wine country, its vulnerable population of farmworkers, many of them undocumented, find themselves in a heightened state of insecurity and inequality.

In Canada, a remote Indigenous community is fighting for its survival in the age of climate change. The film explores the impacts of this struggle against a backdrop of systemic discrimination and calls for the government of Canada to do better to protect Indigenous communities.

For over 2000 years the Ama-San dived in Japan. In Wagu, a fishing village in the Ise Peninsula, Matsumi, and Masumi dive every day not…

Winner, Eric Moe Sustainability Award Offering a brief window into one man’s journey and his deep-seated love for the forests that are rapidly decreasing around…

Indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon are locked in a battle to protect their forest from land grabbers, illegal loggers, and a political class determined…

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey that bears witness to the…

The rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history is told in this film. Prior to Euro-American…

The United States Botanic Garden, at the foot of the U.S. Capitol, is a living plant museum that helps people understand that plants are not…

Tucked into a remote corner of Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a place where wilderness is experienced on an epic scale. From forested…

As the United States transitions to a “minority majority” nation, a staggering number of people of color do not identify with America’s wild places. Nine…

Will the local food movement be able to feed us all? Take a look at the current state of the meat industry in the United…

This half-hour documentary about Smith Island, MD, features Mary Ada and Dwight Marshall, whose lives personify the Chesapeake Bay’s seafood-harvesting culture and history, and their four children, who chose to break with that tradition.

For decades, heavy industrial pollution has infiltrated the waters of the Anacostia River, which cuts right through the heart of Washington, D.C. A broad coalition…

A young boy displaced by a massive condominium complex creates his own reality in which, as a lion (anbessa), he can face the forces beyond his control.

Filmed in one of the last remaining patches of the oldest forests in Lithuania, this poetic and atypical nature film depicts a place where boundaries of time melt and everything that exists does not wither or age but “grows into” eternity.

Witness the birth of an artificial coral reef, learn how we are inextricably connected to the ocean and then consider how our choices will determine…

Anti–seal hunting campaigns have attracted high profile supporters, and with them, hefty financial contributions. From Pamela Anderson to Paul McCartney, celebrities have voiced their outrage…

Two brothers who come from a line of Zande hunters pursue protecting their forest from diametrically opposed avenues.

Bird nests come in all shapes and sizes, crafted from an inexhaustible diversity of materials, including fur, grasses, leaves, mosses, sticks and twigs, bones, wool,…

The life of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is co-credited with Charles Darwin for the theory of natural selection, is celebrated in this paper-puppet animation. Directed…

This film opens with the viewer awakening as if inside a restless dream, transformed into a strange vermin. The camera assumes the perspective of an insect burrowing through the dark crumbling underground.

In a world of climate change and environmental catastrophes, two sisters, Anna and Emma, and their companions, the California Condors, stand out as a beacon…

The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati faces a daunting challenge: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. As Anote Tong, Kiribati’s President, races to find a way…

In 1964, planner Robert Simon built a suburban utopia that combined the communal spaces of European cities with the natural expanses of the American countryside. …

Antamiki follows a group of musicians to the Peruvian Amazon to listen to the stories of indigenous leaders and learn how consumer choices directly impact forest communities. Featuring James Valentine of Maroon 5, Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band, Adam Gardner of Guster and Singer/Songwriter KT Tunstall.

To create this film, photographer Anthony Powell spent ten years, including nine winters clocking the continent on camera: from the 24-hour darkness of winter to…

CLICK HERE TO WATCH NOW Drilling down into the Antarctic ice fields in the 1950s, Claude Lorius brought about a sweeping change in our vision…

Presented with the Embassy of France. A frozen continent stretching across 13 million km2, Antarctica had until now seemed sheltered from the dangers of climate…

One of the most important land ecosystems for mitigating the effects of climate change, the Amazon moderates weather patterns locally and globally, carries 20 percent…

We’re living in the “Anthropocene,” the age of large-scale human impact that many scientists believe constitutes a whole new epoch in the geologic timescale. In…

High-end production values and state-of-the-art camera techniques capture evidence of human planetary domination. At the intersection of art and science, this film bears witness to a critical moment in geological history.

Ants On A Shrimp is an exploration of creativity and inspiration, and a journey of discovery into the people and places, sights and sounds, tastes…

Journey through the layers of history that have shaped the South Korean city of Anyang and its environment. The film depicts events such as a…

A short documentary investigating the entangled roles of art and science in making the world a better place.

A unique and exotic culture, an environment of extreme challenges, a storied history and a people of strong faith are revealed in this film. Through…

Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea is now a notorious example of ecological calamity. Retreating over the last 50 years…

Made by 16-year old Natasha Bishop for New Zealand’s The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people, the film shows how our connections—to…

From the aesthetic influence of her early childhood and her groundbreaking career as a Harvard-trained architect to her emergence as a cutting-edge artist, the broad…

The film is the story of the cliff-dwelling inhabitants of the North, the prolific seabirds that represent some of Canada’s most spectacular wildlife. Clambering over…

The video, photography and performance artist Janet Biggs discusses her work, including a recent project for which she scaled a not-quite-dormant volcano in Indonesia. She…

France wants to meet the growing needs of India’s electricity. Areva plans to build six EPR reactors, creating the largest nuclear power plant in the…

  Eladio Fernandez, Dominican conservation photographer from the iLCP, takes us to Haiti on an expedition to find a new species of Aristolochia (pipe vine)…

Every night, all over Europe and North America, populations of Common Starling gather at dusk to perform a stunning air show in vast, amorphous flocks…

Photographer Rosamond Purcell finds life and beauty in the most unlikely of places: in junkyards and libraries and the backrooms of natural history collections. Transformed…

Focusing on people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them, Artifishal explores wild salmon's slide towards extinction, threats posed by hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.

Four films interpret the unique pleasures and chance opportunities that solitary treks can bring. Far from mere run-of-the-mill ramblings, each of these hikes becomes a…

Part of the Nuclear Power Play: Screening & Discussion, presented with the Pulitzer Center. The Pentagon is preparing for an extensive — and expensive — modernization of the country’s…

At the Fork is a new documentary by filmmaker and omnivore John Papola who, together with his vegetarian wife Lisa, offer up a timely and…

Oil companies drilling deep into the Arctic and commercial fishing fleets chasing dwindling stocks are decimating marine ecosystems and fishermen’s livelihoods in the coastal communities…

At three different corners of the Atlantic, fishing communities in Ireland, Norway, and Newfoundland ­share social, economic and environmental problems stemming from human interactions with…

Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, Lost at Sea takes the viewer on an epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon – king of…

An investigation into the nuclear industry and its actions in Africa, the film examines Africa’s power needs and the consequences of using nuclear energy. Africa’s…

Atomic Homefront shines an urgent and devastating light on the lasting toxic effects that nuclear waste can have on communities. Focusing on a group of…

Sir David Attenborough has witnessed an unparalleled period of change in our planet’s history. Now he looks back over the past 60 years in a…

The Wild & Scenic Rio Grande River in Northern New Mexico flows south through the heart of the state. For Louie Hena of the Tesuque…

Tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border…

Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a defiant community of women lives on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share this beguiling yet lethal landscape with an assortment of visitors: scientists, soldiers, and even 'stalkers,' young thrill-seekers who sneak in to pursue post-apocalyptic fantasies. The story of the self-described "Babushkas" who chose to return after the disaster, defying the authorities and endangering their health, speaks volumes about the pull of home, the desire for free will, and the subjective nature of risk.

Co-presented with the American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

October 22, 6:30 pm - Block 6 at The Frank Center*

Tickets, $10.00 for block or $40.00 for festival pass.

*Frank Center – 260 University Drive, Shepherd University Campus, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Based on a novel by Finnish writer Veikko Huovinen, this feature film tells the story of two university biologists and an uneducated but smart lumberjack…

Join host and wildlife educator Sean Roach on an incredible backyard adventure where you’ll discover some of the amazing bugs that exist right outside your…

Backyard Wilderness will surprise and entertain viewers with the unexpected wonders of nature that are right under our noses – in our own backyards. Spanning…

An average guy makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this simple decision will change…

Mario Castro, a fisherman who decided to change the destiny of his community, narrates this captivating story about how the town of Cabo Pulmo on…

The George W. Bush administration proposed oil and gas drilling close to prized national parks near Moab, Utah. The Obama administration has responded with reforms…

The true story of the last house on a Chesapeake Bay island slowly sinking into the rising seas comes to life through fluidly transforming animated clay-on-glass paintings. The…

This PSA juxtaposes a sixties pop song and haunting images of elephants.

By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. But these giants are threatened by deforestation. To…

A behind-the-scenes look into the plight of the polar bear, Bare Existence focuses on the biologists on the front lines of protecting these animals as they battle against the effects of climate change threatening their existence.

Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right and that artists can create a foundation…

Writer and activist Mark Baumer walked barefoot for over 100 days to protest climate change.

The Bat Man has been saving the amazing bats of his homeland since childhood, when he kept vampires in his bathroom. Now his favorite drink,…

In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, a vast network of shacks built on stilts above a rising tide of garbage over…

From inside his yurt deep within the heart of the sub-Arctic Taiga region, an elder of the Dukhas tribe muses about the significance of life and death in the largest forest on Earth. He is the last of the great reindeer herders of the Taiga.

Take a special, one-of-a-kind virtual reality tour of Bears Ears National Monument with National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey, who’s using cutting-edge technology to capture its…

BearTrek is a conservation story wrapped in an adventure. Follow adventurer and renowned biologist Chris Morgan on an epic and entertaining journey to find the…

The film follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she explores the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect, Beatrix…

Juichiro Osugi, a demotivated weather forecaster, suddenly comes to believe that he is from Mars after mysteriously struck by blinding light. About the same time,…

In 1976, William W. Warner’s Pulitzer-winning Beautiful Swimmers delighted readers everywhere with its tales of Callinectes sapidus, or the Atlantic blue crab, and the Chesapeake…

This short film explores the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the “making of” an Alpine newt in its transparent…

When climate-change journalist Eiren Caffall is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, she realizes that, like the planet, she is slowly drowning.

After drifting as a migrant worker in the city for a year, Maofu returns to his family bee farm in rural Northern China. Maofu brings…

Winner of the 2017 Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want…

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by…

We may want to act for the better, but cultures imbued with consumerism hamper change. Matt Rott escaped to a small Pacific Island to overcome…

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring invigorated the U.S. environmental movement in the 1960s, inspiring rising young scientists like Pulitzer Prize winner E.O. Wilson, Cal DeWitt,…

While China’s economic ascent commands global attention, less light has been shed upon the monumental problem of waste spawned by a burgeoning population, booming industry…

Internationally renowned environmental artist Patrick Dougherty has created hundreds of monumental site-specific sculptures out of nothing more than saplings. Celebrating the artist’s 25-year career, this…

Thirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes came together on a mission that was both medical and moral, and, by everyone’s estimation other than…

The moving true story of a young bonobo’s return to life in the wild. Captured by hunters and held in captivity in the city of…

Experience one day in 1920s Berlin. Using visual impressions in a semi-documentary style, this “city symphony” silent film portrays Berlin in the early part of…

In the vast wilderness of Alaska the earth is changing, threatening the history and culture of native peoples, natural landscapes, and the habitats of wild life. Between Earth and Sky examines how climate change is rapidly affecting Alaska, and will soon affect us all.

Documenting Taiwan—called the beautiful island by Portuguese explorers who landed there in the 1500s—from an aerial perspective, this Taiwanese box office sensation offers a glimpse…

Narrated by David Suzuki, this film explores the human and environmental impacts of climate change in British Columbia.

A firsthand investigation of BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this film uncovers what really happened, why it happened and who benefited…

Follow Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on their monumental and historic first ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 through interviews, photography and original and staged…

The story of the HMS Erebus, a 19th-century ship whose crew perished when it became icebound, is told from the perspective of the doomed sailors…

Follow India’s first female surfer, Ishita Malaviya, and fellow female wave riders Crystal Thornburg-Homcy, Liz Clark, Lauren Hill, Emi Koch and Kate Baldwin on an…

Embark on an exotic journey to the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan high in the Himalayan Mountains. See how a benevolent king promotes Gross Domestic…

Follow the story of Tim DeChristopher and his stunning act of civil disobedience in a time of global climate chaos. On December 19, 2008, DeChristopher,…

Examining the causes andconsequences of the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, this deeply personal documentary investigates the corporate negligence and political corruption…

As Turin emerges from an era of automobile industry, the owners of two bicycle repair shops benefit from the city’s newfound interest in cycling –…

Opening night, Premiere Screening, and Launch Party

Peter, an engineer working for a multinational company of dubious environmental sensibilities, is sent to Pera Kassiros, an insignificant dot on the map, somewhere in…

Embark on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world’s most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture…

In 1977, world-renowned cinematographer Neil Rettig filmed the first images of the Philippine Eagle in the wild, transforming the bird into a national symbol. But today, with a rapidly expanding human population facing serious political, economic, and environmental turmoil, the eagle’s plight has fallen out of public consciousness.

The “bird rangers” of the Boschplaat Nature Reserve on the northern Dutch island of Terschelling, have always done much more than guard the wetlands. They’re…

Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful New Yorkers…

On the sandy beaches of the Delaware Bay, in New Jersey, a visitor arrives each May from the southernmost tip of South America. Name: Calidris…

Winner of the 2016 Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film! The 144-year-old Yoshida Saké Brewery does things the old-fashioned way: dedicated artisans work in…

When the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, sailed to protest the first oil platform to drill in the Arctic Ocean, no one could predict what happened…

A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin -- they are all linked by a thin, black line.

Formed by a group of local black women from communities surrounding the Kruger National Park, the Black Mambas are South Africa's first and only all-female anti-poaching unit, attempting to rescue their country's threatened rhino population from the edge of extinction.

Between 1966 and 1995, France conducted more than 170 nuclear tests over the Pacific Ocean. The training and daily tasks aboard a French naval vessel…

Every day during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, gas stations…

In the early hours of March 24, 1989, the oil supertanker Exxon Valdez, en route from Valdez, Alaska to Los Angeles, California, ran aground, discharging…

In this neo-noir cult classic, life in a dystopian near future is sustained by work done on earth’s off-planet colonies. Mega-corporations produce “replicants,” genetically formed…

This personal and crucial documentary follows Lawrence, a Navajo coal miner and single father raising a teenaged daughter, struggling with the part he plays in the irreversible destruction of one of their sacred mountains at the hands of America’s largest coal producer.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot…

Washington, D.C. Premiere The crew at a climate-research center high in the German Alps discovers a mysterious red liquid on a nearby retreating glacier that…

Under the cover of legal loopholes and “wildlife sanctuary” fronts, breeding facilities in South Africa raise lions in captivity to be shot at close range…

Investigative journalists, scientists, and concerned citizens trace the fallout of a new American fossil fuel boom.

Half of all marine life has been lost in the last 40 years. By 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.…

Blue carbon is carbon that is captured and stored by coastal wetlands, helping to mitigate climate change. This film is about mud and the multiple…

Winner of the 2016 Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award! People call Al Larson “The Bluebird Man” for good reason:  at 92, this self-taught conservationist has…

Could we live on Mars? Would we want to? Ian Cheney (The City Dark) examines our fraught relationship with our homeworld by delving into the…

On May 17, 1832 the German ethnologist and naturalist Prince Maximilian zu Wied and the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer set out on a long…

The astonishing life of Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, conservationist, statesman and provocateur, is illuminated in this new National Geographic film. It investigates four decades of exploration…

Along with the chimpanzee, the bonobo ape is the closest human relative. This rare and intelligent species, which can only be found in one country,…

The Bakken oil boom in North Dakota has brought much-needed jobs and economic development to the region. But the fast pace of the drilling has…

Ofelia Rivas was born just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, a place her ancestors have called home since time immemorial.

Co-presented with the Freer | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Disneynature, in its ongoing quest to bring the natural world to the big screen as never…

A native community struggles to protect its ancestral homeland from an industry poised to destroy one of the Earth’s oldest and most biodiverse rainforests.

Finalist: Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a…

Do you know how to turn ordinary water into a billion-dollar business? In Switzerland there’s a company that has developed the art to perfection –…

Humans construct boundaries, around our homes, our neighborhoods, and our nations, to bring order to a chaotic world. But we rarely consider how these boundaries…

The film looks at a young, self-employed waste collector. Featuring real, raw footage that shows Bhutanese ways of life, the boy is making effort to…

Bison were nearly exterminated across North America. Thanks to the Shoshone tribe, the National Wildlife Federation and the coordinated efforts of a host of other…

Showing as part of Living Proof: Short Films by Ground Truth Films. Breadwinner highlights the power of girls’ education to address the impacts of climate change…

The complex world of wildlife trafficking is viewed through a feminine lens in this thorough exploration of the emotional toll that poaching and wildlife crime are having on the courageous women fighting on the front lines.

Japanese artist Susumu Shingu converses with nature through his sculptures. His lifelong dialogue with wind and water has given the world uniquely beautiful works of…

Brick by Brick documents a late-’70s Washington, D.C., ignored by the media, from which poor Black residents are being pushed out. Images of monuments contrast…

A 12-year-old boy is put in charge of watching over a 400-year-old tree, while life unfolds beneath. The reality of living close to the separation wall is mixed with stories of loss and love.

80% of the world’s extinctions have occurred on islands. In the 1990s, two surfer / biologists decided to do something about that. Today, their company Island…

  A poetic look at a forgotten native of Appalachia, the Southern Appalachian brook trout, which is being brought back from the brink… by hand,…

In the resource-rich Indian state of Meghalaya, unregulated coal mines poison natural systems that once sustained decent livelihoods, adequate food and potable water. Broken Landscape…

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ONLINE As climate change threatens their water supply, a family of Himalayan nomads is torn between tradition and modernity. Beyond the…

The most charismatic tiger cub Colin had ever seen, Broken Tail lived in Ranthambhore, one of India’s premier wild tiger reserves. Impossibly cute, he gamboled…

The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has…

Life on Earth is fed by sunlight - so one could think that the lack of sunlight means no life at all. The truth is just the opposite: a closer look reveals that most dark caves present wildlife in abundance.

The Burden is the first documentary of its kind to tell the story of our dependence on fossil fuels as the greatest long­‐term national security…

Daniel Dembele is a 26-year-old charmer who is equal parts West African and European and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the…

The explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia is examined in this film. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local…

It's another Sunday in April on a kibbutz in the north of Israel. When a natural phenomenon occurs, a family takes an impromptu ride -- maybe the last one.

For 50 years, many people have fought to protect San Bruno Mountain, a rare fragment of wild San Francisco and the largest undeveloped urban area…

Pastor Harry Joseph focuses on his community and church, Mount Triumph Baptist, in St. James Parish, Louisiana, a community that lies in the chemical corridor region of the Mississippi River.

How will we move around in the future? In ten years’ time, Ford Motors’ Bill Ford says his company will sell mobility and not cars.…