Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle tells the surreal, fascinating, tragicomic story of the battle over America’s most controversial clean energy project. Cape Wind would be the U.S.’s first offshore windfarm…But strange alliances formed for and against: Kennedys, Kochs, and everyday folks do battle with the developer and green groups over the future of American [...]

A reflection on modernity and global development. Men as machines. The use of human physical force to perform work in the XXI century. The film takes place in the capital of Bangladesh, where the “machine men” execute different physical works, a mass of millions of people who become the driving force behind the city.

Ma Jun created a website that provided air and water pollution data to Chinese citizens, empowering them to hold corporations accountable for their irresponsible, toxic manufacturing practices.

Terra Blight is a 55-minute documentary exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology. Terra Blight traces the life cycle of computers from creation to disposal and juxtaposes the disparate worlds that have computers as their center. From a 13-year-old Ghanaian who smashes obsolete monitors to [...]

Father Edu Gariguez, a Catholic priest on the Philippine Island of Mindoro, led a courageous hunger strike to stop a nickel mine that endangered the indigenous people’s way of life.

The highest purpose of art is to ride point on the front lines of consciousness change, to create “a field” for never before things to happen . . . like giant size dam removal. This film documents the role of art-activism in the second largest dam removal project in history. After ever larger participatory breaches [...]

Nearly half the planet still cooks over an open fire. The toxic smoke created from the basic act of cooking, kills nearly 2 million people each year – most of the victims are women and children. It is the 5th largest killer of people worldwide (WHO). BLACK INSIDE-Three Women’s Voices…was created to raise awareness about [...]

After CalTrout helped force the rewatering of the Pit River Powerhouse #3 stretch in the 1980s, one of California’s best — and toughest — fisheries was born. Renowned for its difficult access and wading, the Pit River’s PG&E-owned hydroelectric facilities recently came up for a FERC relicensing. CalTrout participated in the negotiations, and while higher [...]

CWE is an indigenous-led multimedia initiative to amplify local voices in the global discourse and to formulate a viable collective response to the global challenge of climate change. ‘Tofiga O Pili Aau’ features the initiatives of vulnerable coastal communities in Samoa to mitigate the impacts of climate change on their environment, livelihoods and infrastructure. The [...]

DamNation is a collection of impassioned voices and spirited stories from the people entrenched on both sides of this divisive issue. Examining the history and controversy behind current and proposed dam removal projects, DamNation presents a dynamic perspective on Man’s attempt to harness and control the power of water at the expense of nature. Nothing [...]

In the Beginning, when the living beings emerged from the Sacred Spring on Mt. Shasta, Salmon gave her voice to Human. The Winnemem Wintu people remember that gift and maintain their ceremonies, despite hardship and loss. In 1945, the 600-foot tall Shasta Dam flooded their homes, drowned their river, and stopped their Chinook salmon runs. [...]

  Over the years, the McCloud River has given much of herself away; with two thirds of her natural flow diverted, a dam to the north that contributed to the loss of one species, and another to her south that eliminated the migratory passage of steelhead and salmon. Remarkably, her blue ribbon grace and beauty [...]

The Fall River is California’s largest spring-fed wild trout fishery. Located approximately 50 miles to the east of Mount Shasta in a big, flat, agricultural valley, the river generates up to one million acre-feet per year of cold, clean, nutrient rich water. The water is used for hydro-power, agriculture, municipal supply, and outdoor recreation, but [...]

Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his personal struggle reflects the great dilemma of our generation. Patrick’s courageous choices and [...]

20 kids, 10 days, 4,000 photographs. This short follows a Frame of Mind photographic expedition of 20 Haitian youth, ages 12-19, as they travel from their city of Jacmel, Haiti to Parc la Visite for the first time to see and document the environmental risks facing their country. Frame of Mind empowers youth around the [...]

Waterfall kayaking has emerged as a dominant subset of whitewater paddling—thrilling audiences and pushing athletes to constantly tempt higher falls. It is constantly glorified and frequently misunderstood by all but the small group of kayakers who make waterfalls their life. Evan Garcia explores what it means to kayak off of big waterfalls—considering both the risks [...]

Let Our Rivers Flow portrays the history and present plight of Maryland’s key eastern shore rivers and the role of local Riverkeepers, interacting with the community, fighting to restore and protect these natural resources. The film is narrated by local writer and historian Tom Horton, is filled with music written and recorded by local musicians, [...]

Situated in the mountains of Southern Arizona, the town of Patagonia has one of the most diverse populations of plants and animals in the country. Though the area has a past history of mining, in the last 50 years the town has successfully redefined itself as an eco-tourism destination. Current proposals for open pit mines [...]

The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed three places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In Part One, we head to the Grand Canyon, where a Canadian company is using outdated environmental [...]

The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed three places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In Part Two, we look at a fight brewing in a small Utah town over the expansion [...]

The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed three places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In Part Three, natural gas drilling would bring an ignoble end to Wyoming’s spectacular Noble Basin and [...]

Four million off-grid Indians are ready to save their precious World Heritage site with sustainable ways of living. They are already living virtually carbon-free in the world’s most unique and largest wetland. Two of their islands have vanished because of rising sea levels due to the effects of climate change. Low-cost coal or kerosene produces [...]

Taos, New Mexico is bordered by a backyard of wildlife and wild land. Both take a beating as outdoor users love the Carson National Forest to death. Some of those users recognized the damage they caused and decided to instigate a movement for resource recovery. Illegal trails close. Sanctuaries open. Habitat bounces back. Wildlife comes [...]

In summer 2010, photographer James ‘Q’ Martin and conservation biologist Chris Kassar started an organization called Rios Libres. The organization uses multi-media to join the fight to protect the wild lands of Patagonia from proposed dams that threaten two of the most pristine rivers in one of the world’s most spectacular regions. Last April, Q [...]

Just outside the snowy, crumbling town of Grants, New Mexico, is a 200-acre pile of toxic uranium waste, known as tailings. After 30 years of failed cleanup, the waste has deeply contaminated the air and water near the former uranium capital of the world. While those in town want the prosperity that new uranium mining [...]

Threats to El Salvador’s precious water resources leads to murder when farmer-activists take a stand against pro-mining community members, politicians and a transnational gold mining corporation.

On a warm fall day in October, 1984 a fly fisher happened upon an Eastern Sierra creek that had been mostly dry since the LADWP diverted it in 1941 to flow hundreds of miles south to Los Angeles. Rush Creek flowed once more from the dam at Grant Lake seven miles to the mouth at [...]

When four Florida middle-school students learn about the potential effect of sea level rise on Miami’s economy, they conduct a school energy audit with the help of the non-profit “Dream in Green”. Through their actions, their school saves thousands of dollars in energy costs by doing simple things that add up.

DamNation is a collection of impassioned voices and spirited stories from the people entrenched on both sides of this divisive issue. Examining the history and controversy behind current and proposed dam removal projects, DamNation presents a dynamic perspective on Man’s attempt to harness and control the power of water at the expense of nature. Nothing [...]

The short film “13th German Deer Calling Championship” shows the annual championship of the german deer caller community, taking place at the hunting fair “Hunt and Dog” in Dortmund. During the competition eight gentlemen and firstly one lady battle against each other in three categories: “the young deer”, “two deers in a calling battle” and [...]

                      Follow experimental filmmaker Miriam Needoba in this rare view of British Columbia’s remote Selkirk Mountains as seen through the eyes of wildlife photographer Jim Lawrence. Interweaving the startling imagery of Lawrence’s still photography with Needoba’s sublime cinematography, Eyes in the Forest: The Portraiture of [...]

This short documentary is about Georgena Terry, founder of Terry Bicycles. Terry revolutionized the women’s biking industry by creating a frame specific to a woman’s body. This is the story of how she got her start and the challenges within the women’s biking movement.

A boy goes missing in the icy wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts can no longer be trusted. Here, far from civilisation he must make decisions that will forever change [...]

Early one winter morning, the rock band Los Ginger Ninjas—Nevada County locals—set out from home, destination southern Mexico. They had no van and no gigs, hauling their instruments, camping gear and 1000-watt human-powered sound system on cargo bicycles. Trusting a benevolent force they called the ‘golden bubble,’ the 7-month journey became a test of the [...]

Madeleine loves her Greek family’s traditional lamb souvlaki but her friends claim that meat is murder. Well, Madeleine’s never killed anything bigger than a spider, so she decides to reconnect the animal and the meal or never eat meat again. After talking to the people who slaughter animals for their livelihood she is encouraged to [...]

Barefoot Wine proudly presents One Beach, a film that tells the personal stories of people who are using creativity and innovation to help keep the world’s beaches “barefoot friendly.” Directed by renowned surf filmmaker Jason Baffa and produced by Farm League, the film profiles six passionate people who are working to help fix the global [...]

James Prosek has been called an Audubon of the 21st century. “Picture The Leviathan” follows James on his quest to paint the 35 most important fish in the North Atlantic, lifesize, from life. It’s never been done before, and it takes James from Nova Scotia to Africa to the Caribbean and up and down the [...]

Prie Dieu  (Pray to God in french) is one of the designation in France for the praying mantis. Welcome in a world where insects are connected to a divine power by threads until they decide to commit the sin and break this link.

REBELS WITH A CAUSE provides the David and Goliath origin for two of America’s most visited, and arguably its most beautiful, urban national parks – San Francisco’s Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area. When California was the nation’s fastest-growing state, a handful of politically savvy activists awakened their neighbors, local farmers, [...]

Narrated by William Shatner, Return to the Forest is the heartfelt story of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation and its mission to return captive Asian elephants back to the wild in Thailand; saving them from abuse, exploitation, and extinction.

THE RETURN is a follow-up to the feature-length documentary FACING THE STORM: STORY OF THE AMERICAN BISON. It documents the historic transfer of wild, genetically-pure bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck tribes of northeastern Montana. These are the first bison in over 100 years to leave the Yellowstone area alive.

In this animation, a man and a sperm whale have a conversation about who is smarter. Each one lists various upsides and downsides of human and cetacean brains, but eventually come to an understanding.

                          This Film is about the life cycle of the Southeast Pacific humpback whales, between their feeding grounds in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic , and their mating grounds in the Tropic. It was shot on super 16 mm in the pacific coasts of [...]

On a warm fall day in October, 1984 a fly fisher happened upon an Eastern Sierra creek that had been mostly dry since the LADWP diverted it in 1941 to flow hundreds of miles south to Los Angeles. Rush Creek flowed once more from the dam at Grant Lake seven miles to the mouth at [...]

Native carnivores balance ecosystems and keep wilderness healthy. But they are also seen as a threat to livestock, and for decades ranchers and government trappers have slaughtered them. The Wildlife Services program within U.S.D.A. kills a hundred thousand coyotes, wolves and other native carnivores annually. It is a battle against nature that is costly, brutal, [...]

Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, Yukon Kings follows Yup’ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run. With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.