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.

BIDDER 70 follows Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student who on December 19, 2008, in a dazzling act of civil disobedience, derailed the outgoing Bush administration’s illegal Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction. As bidder #70, Tim bid 1.8 million dollars and won 22,000 pristine acres surrounding Utah’s National Parks. He had [...]

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 [...]

This documentary celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the nonexistence of limits to a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. The environment allows them to explore everything through their own experience and imagination while also bringing to [...]

In Bangladesh, more than 80% of the population survive on less than $2 a day. The “multiplier effect” of climate change stands to push people deeper into poverty, undermining progress on development and even threatening regional stability. In this short film, EJF explains how climate change is having a profound human impact on one of [...]

Soul Migration follows the story of Chris Scammon, descendant of Captain Charles Melville Scammon, the 19th century whaler responsible for the near-extinction of the California gray whale. Students and teachers from Finding the Good Traveling Semester lead Chris and his wife, Janet Cohen, co-founder of Wild and Scenic, to the gray whale’s calving grounds in [...]

Stories of TRUST is the perfect trifecta of law, science, justice and daring youth who are pursuing what has been recognized as the last best chance to protect our atmosphere. In Part 8, meet Kelsey Juliana, a 16-year old artist and enthusiast who takes us on a beautiful journey from the crest of the Cascades [...]

Can shopping save the world? The Story of Stuff Project teamed up with Free Range Studios to create “The Story of Change” because shopping your values is a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop. In this video Annie Leonard walks through key ingredients for successful change-making: a big idea, commitment to [...]

12-year-old Alec Loorz has devoted his life to try to stop climate change in his lifetime. He creates the imatter campaign, the Sea Level Awareness Project and a Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels.

Bottle vs. Tap takes place on a television debate show where guests representing bottled water and filtered tap water try to convince the audience that their water is better. This short film was filmed and edited in Kahului, Maui by four middle school students to raise awareness about the impacts of bottled water.

A portrait of Eric Carle, international icon of picture books, champion of children, and nature-lover. Now 83, Eric is the author of over 70 books for children including the best-selling, classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In this new documentary Eric invites us into his quiet studio and shows us how he creates his beautiful picture [...]

Ernest Wilkerson is struggling to hold onto an independent lifestyle while facing a changing world and his own advancing age. Born in 1924, this humble mountain man cherishes his active life: “I cannot picture myself just sittin’ around doing nothin’.” A local legend in Monte Vista, Colorado, Wilkerson learned to fend for himself at a [...]

Experience nature directly through the outdoor adventures of children in this short film directed and edited by thirteen-year-old Anabella Funk, who gets a hands-on experience of a non-profit that teaches youth how to survive in the wild.

You know those movies where the kids get together and do something awesome? When they unite to overcome insurmountable odds? Maybe win the championship from the favored bad guys. Maybe embark on an epic quest to stop the grown ups from doing something stupid. This is one of those movies, except this one really happened. [...]

River marks the debut of nine-year-old filmmaker Wes Forslund-Mooers. Join him as he follows his baby sister Abby on a journey to our beloved Yuba. It’s a short, simple story about a rock, a river, and a return.

International audiences will delight in this nearly wordless burst of color and music that draws inspiration from film classic “The Red Balloon”. Weaving together documentary and narrative elements, “Watermelon Magic” chronicles a season on the family farm, as young Sylvie grows a patch of watermelons to sell at market.  The film employs a dynamic visual [...]

Stories of TRUST is the perfect trifecta of law, science, justice and daring youth who are pursuing what has been recognized as the last best chance to protect our atmosphere. In Part 1 of this series, meet youth plaintiff Alec Loorz, a 17-year old climate champion who has been working to find solutions to the [...]

Stories of TRUST, is the perfect trifecta of law, science, justice and daring youth who are pursuing what has been recognized as the last best chance to protect our atmosphere. In Part 3 of this series, meet Nelson Kanuk, a 17-year old whose teaches us about the problems people living in the Arctic endure. Nelson [...]

Stories of TRUST is the perfect trifecta of law, science, justice and daring youth who are pursuing what has been recognized as the last best chance to protect our atmosphere. In Part 8, meet Kelsey Juliana, a 16-year old artist and enthusiast who takes us on a beautiful journey from the crest of the Cascades [...]

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 [...]

Stricken with cancer, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari gives her testimony in her lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police for arresting her and organizing partner Darryl Cherney for car-bombing themselves in Oakland while on a musical tour for Redwood Summer 1990, a campaign which brought thousands of protesters to northern California to save the [...]

11-year-old Felix learns about how Wangari Maathai planted thousands of trees in Africa and decides to plant 1 million trees in Germany to sequester carbon dioxide. Through his viral website he plants over 3 million trees.

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our [...]

On a rainy night in May of 2012 a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany, NY, on the governor’s front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing. The goal of the varied participants, many of whom had never met before this night, was to explain in clear terms the environmental, economic and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stories of TRUST is the perfect trifecta of law, science, justice and daring youth who are pursuing what has been recognized as the last best chance to protect our atmosphere. In Part 8, meet Kelsey Juliana, a 16-year old artist and enthusiast who takes us on a beautiful journey from the crest of the Cascades [...]

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stricken with cancer, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari gives her testimony in her lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police for arresting her and organizing partner Darryl Cherney for car-bombing themselves in Oakland while on a musical tour for Redwood Summer 1990, a campaign which brought thousands of protesters to northern California to save the [...]