After the Spill

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 […]

7 Grams

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 tough decisions about conservation. (In Spanish […]

Changing Sea, The

Strange days are dawning in the global sea. Creatures are on the move. Dead zones are expanding. The foundation of life is slowly eroding. And we are the agents of […]

Burning the Future: Coal in America

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 activists watch a world blind […]

Drill Baby Drill

One day, the people living in a small village in far eastern Poland, an ecologically pristine agricultural area, discover that Chevron, the world’s fourth largest energy corporation, plans to build […]

Weather War, The

In a blend of land art performance and road movie, Swedish artist duo Bigert and Bergström travel to the U.S. tornado belt with their special machine-sculpture, the Tornado Diverter. The […]

Metamorphosen

Set in Russia’s south Ural region, this documentary, filmed in black and white, tells the story of living in an area with some of the largest amounts of radioactive contamination […]

Pilgrims and Tourists

Around the world, indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks to rein in tourism […]

Profit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea’s rainforests to Canada’s tar sands, this film exposes industrial threats to native peoples’ health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government-owned nickel […]