Environment Movies

  • 2008
    To the Tar Sands

    To the Tar Sands

    To the Tar Sands

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    To The Tar Sands follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the...

    To the Tar Sands
  • 2010
    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

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    Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
  • 2011
    Wiebo's War

    Wiebo's War

    Wiebo's War

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    WIEBO'S WAR tells the story of a Christian community, at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline...

    Wiebo's War
  • 2009
    Split Estate

    Split Estate

    Split Estate

    02009HD

    This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a...

    Split Estate
  • 1970
    Echo in the Desert

    Echo in the Desert

    Echo in the Desert

    01970HD

    In the vastness of the Iranian desert, young artists strive for freedom, community, and the preservation of their cultural heritage in the ancient...

    Echo in the Desert
  • 1970
    Forest Mind

    Forest Mind

    Forest Mind

    01970HD

    Forest Mind is a video work that emerges from the artist’s longstanding interest in the human interaction with the natural world. Forest Mind...

    Forest Mind
  • 2006
    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

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    Documentary telling the story of the rise and fall of a daring experiment into atomic energy as the history of the Dounreay fast reactor is charted...

    Dounreay: The Atomic Dream
  • 2004
    Shellmound

    Shellmound

    Shellmound

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    “Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

    Shellmound
  • 1967
    Man Uses and Changes the Land

    Man Uses and Changes the Land

    Man Uses and Changes the Land

    01967HD

    The film discusses the various uses of land for producing food, clothing, and shelter. It explains how different types of land are cultivated for...

    Man Uses and Changes the Land
  • 1970
    Litter Bug

    Litter Bug

    Litter Bug

    01970HD

    After a college student throws a water bottle on the ground, it comes to life and takes matters into its own hands.

    Litter Bug
  • 1973
    Mururoa 1973

    Mururoa 1973

    Mururoa 1973

    01973HD

    In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry...

    Mururoa 1973
  • 1993
    Wilderness: The Last Stand

    Wilderness: The Last Stand

    Wilderness: The Last Stand

    01993HD

    A look at the mandate and performance of the U.S. Forest Service in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Through interviews with Forest Service employees,...

    Wilderness: The Last Stand
  • 1976
    Voices From the Landscape

    Voices From the Landscape

    Voices From the Landscape

    01976HD

    This docucumentary by John Brett conveys the impressions of cultural loss felt by an elderly Acadian man living on the south shore of Nova Scotia...

    Voices From the Landscape
  • 2002
    Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

    Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

    Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

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    Examines the global fisheries crisis and the forces pushing many marine fish stocks toward commercial extinction. Documents some promising and...

    Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
  • 2003
    Poison City

    Poison City

    Poison City

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    Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial...

    Poison City
  • 2001
    The Buffalo War

    The Buffalo War

    The Buffalo War

    02001HD

    Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists battle over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison, based on...

    The Buffalo War
  • 1991
    Mother Earth

    Mother Earth

    Mother Earth

    01991HD

    This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film...

    Mother Earth
  • 1990
    The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

    The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

    The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

    01990HD

    Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of...

    The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
  • 1970
    The Family of the Forest

    The Family of the Forest

    The Family of the Forest

    01970HD

    In the heart of the Boreal forest lives a family renowned as much for their gourmet forest pickings as for their life of self-sufficiency.

    The Family of the Forest
  • 1970
    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek

    01970HD

    A film initially was released alongside an injunction granted from the BC court to Teal Jones, enabling them to forcibly remove forest protectors who...

    ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek