Rabbit Island

A conservation easement ensures that an untouched island in Lake Superior will remain undeveloped; a group of young people gathers there to live in synchrony with the ecosystem. Directed by […]

Moving the Giants

Finalist of the 2016 Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award! After a near-death experience, an arborist realizes what he has to do combat climate change: migrate the California coast redwoods – some […]

Message in a Bottle

After finding fame tracking the retreat of glaciers, photographer James Balog travels to Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory to capture evidence of climate change in its most essential, yet elusive form: […]

Russian Woodpecker, The

Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich believes that the Chernobyl disaster was a plot by the USSR to cover up a Soviet superweapon capable of mind control. As fanciful as his conspiracy […]

Saving Jamaica Bay

Despite its natural beauty and rich history, Jamaica Bay was New York City’s dumping ground for decades. Towering landfills created landscapes of garbage. Jets scream overhead constantly as they take […]

Dispatches From the Gulf

The environmental desolation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 sparked the largest coordinated oceanic research effort in history: as contamination spread across the Gulf of Mexico, an international […]

My Legacy

Director Helen Haig-Brown wonders whether her inability to maintain relationships might be connected to the traumas her mother suffered – along with much of the Canadian First Nations population – […]

Merchants of Doubt

Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, this film takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Documentarian […]

Salt of the Earth

Over the course of 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has borne witness to the plights of marginalized communities the world over, from famines to civil wars to unsafe labor conditions. […]