A curated collection of nature and environment and human ecology films from around the globe.

FOR EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL DOWNLOADS. With its towering cliffs and villages perched high on mountain slopes, the Amalfi coast epitomizes La Dolce Vita. It became fashionable in the 1950s, visited by Jackie Kennedy and Sophia Loren, and it has never gone out of style. The Amalfi coast depends on tour...

The top 5 most popular films on Green Planet Films 20 year history

In the months leading up to October, up to 200 volunteers come together to run one of the best haunted attractions in America. Arx Mortis in Killen, Alabama (population 972) brings together people of all ages and walks of life to scare the bejeebers out of its patrons.

The Ait Atta tribe of the High Atlas mountain range in Morocco preserves their ancestral right of access to the agdal, a communal land management system that dates back hundreds of years. The film follows Ben Youssef family’s arduous transhumant journey from the desert-like landscape of Nkob to t...

‘Atomic Hope’ follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems, before catastrophic climate change occurs.

The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama in His Own Words. How does one capture the essence of one of the most legendary lives of our time? A boundless and heroic life filled with extraordinary loss, resilience, and achievement—and a man whose philosophy of kindness continues to inspire...

Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their histori...

This visually and artistically unique documentary explores the physical and emotional aspects of a community of Canadian west coast tree planters. Deftly weaving together still photos and film footage, Rita Leistner, an award-winning photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker and erstwhile tree pla...

A unique, non-invasive, mountain lion study uses a giant network of trail cameras scattered throughout the mountains over a decade coupled with interviews with MPG Ranch staff and volunteers in Montana, the filmmakers pieced together the life story of the area’s mountain lions. Genetic data glean...

STORY: A grain miller lost his daughter and converted his mill into a church. Green Planet Films announces the 2022 restoration of the silent film The Church with an Overshot Wheel (1920). Story by American author O Henry. Directed by Joseph Byron Totten. The silent film was restored by The Acade...

A Call to Arts explores Helen Hooker and Ernie O’Malley’s lives and their contributions to the arts in a newly independent Ireland. The film examines the photography and sculpture of Helen Hooker, and her marriage with Irish soldier and author, Ernie O’Malley. It’s an artistic journey in Ireland ...

An epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon in an attempt to unravel the mystery of their life at sea. Salmon are plummeting to critical levels. The cause is mortality at sea. For the first time, using the latest DNA technology, scientists are tracking the salmon from the r...

Available to buy or rent on September 11th ... O. Henry's birthday.

STORY: A grain miller lost his daughter and converted his mill into a church. (The 'church' is the Old Town Mill in New London Connecticut).

Green Planet Films announces the 2022 restoration of silent film 'The Church with an O...

Part One: As we journey the length of the San Joaquin River, one question will not go away. Is it possible that the fate of this one river in the most productive agricultural region in the world, California’s Central Valley, offers a chance to restore the historical balance between nature and th...

Part Two: What was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River disappeared more than100 years ago due to water diversion and land reclamation for agriculture. As we meet a series of people living in and around the old lake bed, Tulare – The Phantom Lake raises sometimes unsettl...

THE VALLEY AND THE LAKE is a four-part film odyssey focused on water issues, conflicts, and hopes in California’s Central Valley, the breadbasket of the world and also the most human-altered landscape on the planet.
Part Three: On the land in the foothills above California’s Central Valley, we jo...

Part Four: There are only two kinds of water in the world, surface water that comes from the sky and the water beneath our feet, often called “groundwater.” With drought spreading across the earth, one might well ask, is there enough groundwater to balance the needs of our cities and our farms an...

Walden: a short legacy film was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s classic book, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.

Walden combines delicate and brilliant images filmed
on location around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts with readings by poet, John D. Ogden, bringing to life the heart and soul o...

Searching for the Gold Spot: The Wild After Wildfire

The Gauchos del Mar set out to explore the Falkland Islands, an archipelago of more than 700 islands, with the aim of uniting and building bridges through sports and nature, in this case surfing and the sea.

In 1849, Henry David Thoreau traveled to Cape Cod to see the great Atlantic Ocean. What began as a collection of journals, became Thoreau's famous novel: Cape Cod. Now, 170 years a filmmaker looking to walk in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau attempts to follow in Thoreau's footsteps as he tr...

With the loss of global biodiversity and climate change in mind, the world`s ornithologists are understanding how important birds are for ecosystems and economies. In this documentary, you will discover recent research conclusions with scientists and ornithologists from around the planet. You wi...

In 2013, the Ballona Wetlands is under threat of development again. This is a short film dealing with the high profile preservation and development controversy in Southern California. This spirited film includes highlights from earlier versions as well as well as dramatic new footage covering the...

Teach Me to Be WILD explores the work of a sanctuary in Northern California, where a team of injured, non-releasable wild animals become Wild-Teachers and are helping heal generations of hurt children (at-risk teens, justice-involved youth, foster kids and others). The traumatic histories of the ...

From substations to gas stations, boardrooms to military bases — this film tells the story of America’s energy industry on the brink of massive change. Whether it fails, prevails or adapts, the outcome will profoundly affect us all.

The Fraser River is one of the most beautiful rivers of Canada. But how healthy is it really? In this documentary we embark on a journey and meet with the people who are studying and defending the Fraser River and its watershed. With scientists, activists, outdoorsmen, farmers, educators, arti...

A documentary following two women from Ladakh, or Little Tibet, a remote region in the Himalayas, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. They are exposed to aspects of modern urban life homelessness, old-age homes, big garbage dumps that contrast sharply with the...

EXTRAVAGANT BIRDS
The south-eastern part of Venezuela is well known in South America for its tremendous variety  of avian species.  It has several special ecosystems, and is the home of some of the most bizarre species in this country.The Tepuis (Tabletop mountains), the Gran Sabana, the Sierra ...

ANGEL FALLS
Forty five percent of Venezuelan territory lies southern the Orinoco, the Guiana Highlands, part of the Pre-Cambrian Shield which is one of the oldest rock formations in the Planet. This is a magnificent land of table mountains, sheer cliffs, and savannah uplands with immense river...

Using archival footage, still photographs, and interviews, KLUNKERZ tells the story of the earliest days of mountain biking from those who were there. Some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as some more obscure characters, recount the people and events that gave birth to the modern mo...

The aim of international climate change policy is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. But scientists believe that a temperature rise of just 1.5 degrees could lead to irreversible damage to ecosystems and terrestrial and marine areas.

The film '1.5 - Stay Alive' by Spanish film-mak...

Losing the West is a documentary on small ranching and farming, exemplified by the story of a lifelong Colorado cowboy. Howard Linscott IS the original Marlboro Man, a gruff, chain-smoking 70-year-old who’s been ranching all his life. With sweeping shots of the Colorado Rockies, the film explores...

Industrial salmon farming is a booming business, especially in Chile, where a “blue revolution” in seafood production is leading the market.

From Coastal Alaska to the South of Chile, witness the disturbing changes this aquaculture boom heralds for fishermen, consumers, and environmentalists a...

Dream People of the Amazon tells the story of the Achuar, indigenous people who live in a remote and pristine part of the Amazon rain forest in southeastern Ecuador. The Achuar had no contact with the outside world until the early 1970′s.

Today, while still retaining their traditional culture,...

A people of a village in North Kerala fight to preserve their village, and their livelihoods, threatened by sand mining on their estuary. For the last ten years they have been conserving Olive Ridley Turtles that come to their beach to nest. They see the preservation of a species on the verge of ...

Step back in time to pre-colonial Bermuda on Nonsuch Island. This once-barren island was restored by one man, David Wingate, who planted 8,000 native trees and shrubs in order to create a suitable habitat for one of the rarest seabirds in the world, the Bermuda Petrel or Cahow. Nonsuch Island is ...

A half-hour program that delivers eco-living basics to your door. Narrated by Tony Shalhoub.

Eco-pioneer Julia Russell tours a group of curious middle-school kids through a modest home and garden that has been renovated to be completely eco-friendly.

Mixing humor with everyday, affordable ...

“The Faces of Environmental Injustice in Cincinnati” explores the adverse health and other effects felt by economically poor and minority communities that too often face the brunt of environmental pollution and poor land-use planning. Polluting industries, coupled with poor regulation and decisio...

‘French Fries’ is an award winning film that documents the origins of Telluride’s Biodiesel project, which resulted in the launching of the first city bus in the nation to run on 100% pure Biodiesel.

This funny and thought provoking piece is pure Telluride, Colorado, having been made by a loca...

ScrapHouse was a temporary demonstration home, built entirely of salvaged material on Civic Center Plaza adjacent to San Francisco City Hall.

Challenge 1: Design
Rethinking a standard single-family home floor plan, the ScrapHouse Design Team generated an elegant design solution, inspired by t...

One Dream | Two Brothers | One Continent
Two brothers follow their dream of surfing the American Pacific showing the Continent as a whole, through its different cultures, villages, food, people, animals and landscapes while camping and surfing on their way back home to Argentina. After 403 days,...

The Gauchos del Mar brothers pursue their goal of surfing at one of the southernmost, and uninhabited, areas of the world: Isla de los Estados (Staten Island), in the Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) region on the Argentinian side of Patagonia. Travelling in a truck and living in a tent, they make...

This playlist contains all three films on the Austrian “Agro-Rebel” Sepp Holzer, who simply observes nature and works with it quite successfully. He built one of the biggest functioning permaculture farms in Europe.

Farming with Nature: 33 mins
A beautiful fishpond system with its own water p...

Fishponds on a mountain farm: an unusual sight at these altitudes. On an Austrian mountain, permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer created more than 70 ponds and wetland areas covering about 3 hectares. Aquaculture is about the sustainable use of water. 30 mins.
Director/Producer: Heidi Snel

A beautiful fishpond system with its own water power station, 9000 fruit trees and many other plants support each other in this biotope. 30 different types of potatoes, many different grains, fruits, vegetables, herbs and wildflowers are growing just about everywhere: in the forest, on extremely ...

Lungau, Austria. Pine forest carpets the alpine foothills. It looks natural, a typical scene from a tourist brochure- but it was not always so. This landscape used to support diverse flora and fauna until the pine trees were planted making the soil acidic…and acidic soil is completely unsuited to...

When an Australian garbage collector, Stuart Harris, takes a photo of a tiny colourful spider, he has no idea how it will change his life. An epic three-year quest follows in which Stuart discovers much more than just a spider unknown to science. A remarkable story of determination, self-discover...

We Are Traffic! tracks this leaderless, grassroots movement from its beginnings in San Francisco in 1992 to its spread across the globe. With a radical direct-action approach the participants of Critical Mass are celebrating the bicycle and in turn taking on perhaps the century’s most sacred cow:...

Part 2 of a 7 hr cutting edge seminar on Green Building.
This part explores Resource Conservation.

Green Building
Features David Johnston and Marc Richmond of What’s Working.

ABOUT DAVID JOHNSTON
Author and green building expert, David Johnston, is a leading thinker behind the green bui...

Shot with a hand-cranked camera, Pumping contemplates history of the Southern Pacific Railroad which was largely responsible for transforming LA into a metropolis. The film traces the two crucial resources for this development: water and oil. As a whispered monologue unfolds, a lonely figure ride...

Part 3 of a 7 hr cutting edge seminar on Green Building.
This part explores indoor air quality.

Green Building
Features David Johnston and Marc Richmond of What’s Working.

ABOUT DAVID JOHNSTON
Author and green building expert, David Johnston, is a leading thinker behind the green buildi...

Part 4 of a 7 hr cutting edge seminar on Green Building.
This part explores mold and moisture management.

Green Building
Features David Johnston and Marc Richmond of What’s Working.

ABOUT DAVID JOHNSTON
Author and green building expert, David Johnston, is a leading thinker behind the gr...

Peter Proctor is New Zealand’s father of biodynamic agriculture. Peter has been making compost for over 65 years. “Biodymanics makes organics work.”

Compost is the fundamental element in all gardening & farming. This master class takes you through the compost making process from gathering and ...

This film shows the development of building with strawbales in Germany. In interviews with owners, builders, architects and experts such as David Eisenberg, many relevant green building topics are discussed.

In the 1890s, pioneers of the sandhills of Nebraska found themselves building a new li...

Return of the Scorcher
This half-hour documentary looks at bike culture and bike lifestyles around the world with beautiful and inspiring scenes of bike use filmed in China, The Netherlands, Denmark, and the U.S.

In the 1890s, before automobiles ruled the roads, bicyclists were referred to as...

This documentary tells the true story of the high profile controversy involving poor farmers and their supporters, including celebrity tree sitters, the developer and the City of Los Angeles over the South Central Farm, the largest and most bio-diverse urban farm in the U.S. It includes a rare in...

Shot around the Palmyra oasis, Syria, not far from the Euphrates river and the Iraqi border. Despite its bad reputation in the international press, the Syrian government is very much involved in the effort of protecting its natural heritage. This is the story of a handful of visionary men who are...

Part 1 of a 7 hr cutting edge seminar on Green Building.
This first part explores Energy Efficiency.

Green Building
Features David Johnston and Marc Richmond of What’s Working.

ABOUT DAVID JOHNSTON
Author and green building expert, David Johnston, is a leading thinker behind the green b...

What is the cost of convenience?
For the Price of a Cup of Coffee is a short environmental documentary examining the life cycle of a paper cup and the repercussions of a society reliant on convenience. Why are less than 1% of coffeeshop patrons bringing their own cup? Why do we have so much garb...

A powerful documentary tackling the hunger epidemic in America. Narrated by James Denton.

WebWhat does the face of hunger look like?

Is it a child in Ethiopia? An aging man in Somalia? Or a family in poverty-stricken India?

This eye-opening documentary will change your whole perception...

A good news documentary program on the removal of the Peregrine Falcon from Canada’s Endangered Species List. Return of the Peregrine chronicles this majestic bird of prey’s journey back from the brink of extinction. A conservation success story filled with adventure and intrigue, Return of the P...

Focusing on the Western Australian Government’s decision in January of 2014 to hunt and kill the white shark, a protected species in Australia, filmmaker Skyler Thomas visits Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand to learn more about the shark culling practices in each of those locations. Inter...

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon forest and the industries destroying it. The film is a poetic ride on beauty of the Brazilian rainforest and the suffering that accompan...

Using what’s called an ‘Ecology in Your Face’ approach, the ECO-RAP artists profiled in this documentary, hail from San Francisco, Oakland, and elsewhere in the Bay area. This video by Lynn Feinerman presents ecological issues from the viewpoint of a multiethnic group of young people as they lear...

An international group from the Artists for Nature Foundation are invited to Peru to sketch and paint the unusual dry forest of Tumbesia. It teems with unique species but is being cut down at an alarming rate.

A local community have got together to put life back into their forest and restore t...

GREEN won top awards from the two most prestigious wildlife film festivals in the world…and more than 30 others.

Set in Indonesia. Meet Green, an orangutan and victim of human impact. Follow the devastating journey as her home is destroyed by logging, clearing for palm oil plantations, and the...

In I Love Trash, David Brown and Greg Mann try an experiment in waste. After recognizing the huge amount of waste in the United States, David and Greg decide to see just how much people throw away. They move to a new city and get an unfurnished apartment. They bring only the clothes they are wear...

8 vignettes by Pascal Campion illustrating tips for reducing one’s carbon footprint. 8 mins. CREATOR: Pascal Campion

TREES: a comic warning about the devastating effects of clear-cutting our rainforests.

THE KRILL IS GONE: shows us how burning fossil fuels is impacting the world’s fragile underwater ecosystems.
3 mins.

DIRECTOR: Jeffrey Bost
VOICEOVER TALENT: SpongeBob’s Tom Kenny and Jill Taley
Producer: Matt Briggs
Writer: Clark Taylor

About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government offi...

Sick-Amour is a 33-minute documentary / love story celebrating the lonely and forlorn tree that Joel Tauber adopted in the middle of a giant parking lot at the Rose Bowl Stadium.

A beautiful and forlorn tree, stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot. Ignored and neglected. Hit by cars, and s...

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life. Lawns are undeniably an American symbol. But what do they really symbolize? Pride and prosperity? Or waste and conformity?

It’s es...

Mujaan (The Craftsman) is a poetic record of how Mongolian nomads have built their yurts by hand for the past 1,000 years.

On the distant steppes of Mongolia, using only simple tools, strength and ingenuity, a nomad builds a home much the way his ancestors have for the past one thousand years...

The British Film Institute calls Tongpan “One of the most important “third world” films of the decade. It is based on the real life experience of a farmer from the poverty-stricken Northeast region of Thailand. Tongpan and his family are forced off their land when a dam built nearby caused their ...

73 MIN DIRECTOR'S CUT: In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Ar...

Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man’s vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town’s only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell’s dream is to conserve one m...

From June through September 2012 we walked, kayaked, and rafted from Rocky Mountain National Park to Lake Powell along the Colorado River. Along the way we talked to over 30 people involved in the Colorado: farmers, ranchers, water managers, professional rafters, conservationists, and more.

Ou...

Little Miss Dewie: A Duckumentary is a documented story of compassion and humanity caught in action. What started out as a few hours of time to help an orphaned duck led to a journey to find the right home for a helpless animal. Sacrificing the comforts of her home,work schedule, and even facing ...

Whenever we hear the word “recycle” we think of paper. Paper makes up 40% of the general waste stream and 70% of the municipal recycling stream. Of all the recycling processes, glass is the easiest to understand and one of the most engaging to watch. It also resembles the technologies used in pla...

Are timber companies allowed to do whatever they want with the trees on their land? The Forest Through the Trees asks both impassioned environmentalists and committed timber workers as they fight over the future of one of the most breathtaking landscapes in the country…Humboldt County, California...

“The true story of one woman’s quest to befriend and protect a wayward, extroverted wild dolphin, Moko.

Filmed in the last six months of Moko’s life, Soul in the Sea is a journey of discovery, loss, and resolution. It’s a love story that breaks through the invisible wall between people and ani...

Left for dead after decades of neglect, the terminus of the Colorado River in Northern Mexico was once a vibrant wetland ecosystem the size of Rhode Island. “A Changing Delta” chronicles the stories, issues, and people of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico, and what they’ve done to reconnect one ...

A story of a community in conflict in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The film takes an unusually unbiased look at four local residents, two timber workers and two environmentalists, as they try to balance the health of the forest with the jobs of the workers who depend on it.

Filmmaker and journ...

AS SEEN ON PUBLIC TELEVISION IN THE USA. 56 min broadcast edition
In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from ...

HEAVY METAL: An American Pollution Story explores the haunting controversy behind a century of silver-lead-zinc mining in Idaho’s panhandle and reveals the dangerous health impacts it left behind for its inhabitants. The Silver Valley region is slated to become the largest Superfund in the nation...

This film is about people making a difference. A shared fascination for the Dodo, a passion for wildlife, and desire to protect ecosystems is what unites a characterful group of artists and scientists. They inspire each other to reconstruct in bronze nine extinct creatures from Mauritius, includi...

For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Even the garbage companies have a long history of recycling practices. After the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, community, non-profit recycling centers appeared in schools, garages, and neighborhood centers-wi...

Counting Sheep chronicles the struggle for survival of the wild Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, a majestic emblem of American wilderness. Shot and produced over the course of twelve years, Counting Sheep captures the plight of the Sierra bighorn with dynamic interviews and exquisite footage.

Fest...

A Kid for the Wild is a playlist of 11 ecology music videos created by Judy Lehmberg, a former college biology, zoology and botany teacher, now filmmaker. The majority of songs are by the late Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, a singer songwriter, poet, photographer, painter and long distance hiker from Big Sk...

Tulare Lake in California’s Central Valley was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi. By the year 1910, the lake had been completely dried by water diversion and land reclamation, along with the dislocation of the Valley’s indigenous people. Today the region maintains the most productive ...

Follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air. The film introduces the unlikely partners-mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, lawyers, and citizens-that have come together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants that were s...

No Room To Move explores the effect of urban sprawl on sensitive wildlife in Florida – developers entomb tortoises as they construct homes, and speeding cars kill bears as they cross Floridas busy roads. This thirty-minute documentary also examines how Florida could accommodate the needs of its w...

To fly, essence of the avian world, fuelling, getting vegetable matter, meat-eating birds, getting food in the water, communication, reproduction, parenthood, birds and men.

50 minutes of the most exciting adventure, discover the life of birds in the most diverse environment. More than a dec...

Hummingbirds Video Guide A
Part 1 of over a hundred species of hummingbirds recorded in their natural habitats, showing fieldmarks and behavior through territorial displays, perching, nesting, feeding and/or hovering. Wide, medium and amazing close-ups of these fascinating birds shot originally...

Part 2 of over a hundred species of hummingbirds recorded in their natural habitats, showing fieldmarks and behavior through territorial displays, perching, nesting, feeding and/or hovering. Wide, medium and amazing close-ups of these fascinating birds shot originally in high definition, most of...

The process of adaptation takes millions of years and the species that are successful have developed both physical and behavioural tools that allow them to survive harmoniously with their environment and its inhabitants. Topic include: feeding, adaptations to air environments, camouflage, symbio...

The evolutionary adaptation in South America has produced gigantic rodents, including the largest in the world, the Capybara, which may weight 130 pounds. This documentary summarizes over 10 years of research of the natural history of the Capybara and includes unpublished images of the biology a...

Get on board with us on a cruise ship to visit this amazing laboratory of Nature. A journey through the islands of Seymour, Española, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Santa Cruz, Fernandina and Santiago. On this journey you will discover the extraordinary and unique animals inhabiting this environmen...

A compilation of 38 outstanding species of mammals of the Orinoco-Amazon area plus others of the pacific slopes of Los Andes and the Galapagos islands. Possums, Armadillo, Sloth, anteaters, ten species of monkeys, seven species of rodents, including the biggest ones in the world like capybaras an...

This program features the most stunning imagery from nature photographer Carlo Ferraro compiled from 25 years of capturing Film

 close-ups of: Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Invertebrates, Flowers, Sunsets, People in Action, Underwater, Spectacular Landscapes, Rivers and Waterfalls.

More than 5 years of behavioral research and field work has led to this extraordinary documentary that contains the most striking features of the life of hummingbirds. recordings in high-definition video in Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú and Brazil provide unique shots, cl...

Wall-to-wall Toucans! These birds are known and loved for their immense celebrated beaks. Travel beyond the imaginary world of cereal-boxed Toucan Sam, and witness real Toucans in the wild. Watch Channel-Billed Toucans, Groove-Billed Toucans, Guianan Toucanets and Black Aracaris as they feed on f...

Half a century ago the owner of this Ranch on the Orinoco floodable plains decided to share the cattle business with conservation of the wealthy fauna of the region. 30 years ago the first attempts to breed the Orinoco croc in captivity were made to save this endangered species, due to massive hu...

The process of adaptation takes millions of years and the species that are successful have developed both physical and behavioural tools that allow them to survive harmoniously with their environment and its inhabitants. Feeding, adaptations to aquatic, camouflage, symbiosis, development of the s...

The Masagaural region of South America is shown throughout the life of the most authentic animals of each area, especially mammals, reptiles and some icon birds. A scientific project on wedge capuchin monkeys is described by its author. Bizarre mammals like felines, anteaters, tayra, capybaras, ...

Stories of the Seventh Fire
WINTER
Tales of Wesakechak: Why the Rabbit Turns White – Weshakechak neglects his responsibilities and is punished by the Creator. Without his powers, Wesakechak must embark on a journey to set things straight.

13 Mins
1999
English

Part 1 of AUSTRALIA'S LAND BIRDS (Non-Passerines only)
Over 250 species of birds grouped on 14 small video sections, eight sections contain Non-Passerines and the other six contain Passerines. Each bird is shown in a 30 secs clips, showing fieldmarks and behavior through territorial displays,...

SPRING: A story about the power of friendship. Before there were people on Turtle Island (North America), the Creator put the shape-shifter Wesakechak on the earth to take care of all the creatures. This makes Machias, a bad spirit, very envious and angry. From the series STORIES FROM THE SEVENTH...

Part 2 of AUSTRALIA'S LAND BIRDS (Passerines only)
Over 250 species of birds grouped on 14 small video sections, eight of them contains Non-Passerines and the other six Passerines. Each bird is shown in a 30 secs clips, showing fieldmarks and behavior through territorial displays, perching, ...

From "Stories of the Seventh Fire" - SUMMER

An animated legend from Canada’s First Nations based on the art by Norval Morriseau and the live action footage of wildlife filmographer, Albert Karvonen. This series outlines Native legends set in 4 seasons depicted in varied animated styles.

Thi...

Stories of the Seventh Fire
AUTUMN
Tales of Wesakechak: Wesakechak and The Medicine - This is a cautionary tale about respecting the power of medicine.

13 Mins
1999
English

SUMMER: Mother Wolf tells her cubs a bedtime story about the truth of power and size. The cubs learn about animals and the world to the North in the Barrens, about how too many living in one place can destroy the land. (Inspired by the annual migration of the Porcupine Caribou herds) From the ser...

WINTER: Mother Wolf tells of a time of eternal winter when all creatures were starving. When the Earth is filled with ice and snow, all the hungry animals ask the creator to bring back the seasons. Legend tells us that with the seasons, also came the "spirit," or Kermode Bear. Legends from Canad...

Stories of the Seventh Fire
AUTUMN
Wolf Tale: Legend of the First Thanksgiving – Mother Wolf tells her cubs a bedtime story about how the first Thanksgiving was created. (Inspired by a story from the Salish of the Pacific Coast)

12 Mins
1999
English

SPRING: We hear of great plains, covered with water and the giant beaver, the size of grizzly bears who built land and created smaller lakes and ponds for other creatures. The natural link to shrinking waters and beavers introduces the role of wetlands, and habitats. From the series STORIES FROM ...

Four outstanding healthy locations on the Caribbean Sea are the perfect scenario to find the fauna inhabiting the reefs, fishes and invertebrates. Great images of Cozumel (Mexico), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), The Bahamas and Bonaire, dives day and night.

The last big wetlands of the southern Caribbean sea, a marine and submarine park with the most important mangrove system. The marine and submarine fauna make it the great ecological scene of the Venezuelan coast line. Beautiful landscapes and environments, marine birds, the fauna of the mangrove...

Spotted in the Woods shows the effects of the loss of habitat on the Northern Spotted Owl. This engaging film explores this coastal habitat and its inhabitants. We see owls hunting, hooting, and feeding their young. We see the owls’ role in the food chain and also explore the interconnections bet...

The TASTER is a sampling of films from the Green Planet Films collection.

In California and other regions affected by drought, agriculture is suffering from a lack of water and farms are being abandoned at an alarming rate. But some people have developed solutions to capture the rains that DO fall. In this state and in many other dry regions around the world, land rest...

“Life is One” is the story of three orphan sun bear cubs from Indonesia and their return to the wild. The story is told by the foster parent of these cubs who accompanied them to their independence. The viewer is placed in total immersion with the bears in the rainforest and discovers how beautif...

In the U.S. Virgin Islands, green iguanas are dramatically increasing in number and spreading. The situation has left most humans and iguanas scratching their heads about how to get by in the fast-changing island environment. The film engages in a lively debate about when and where animals are w...

What can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience?

During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges often saw these cultures identify “psychotic” symptoms as an indicato...

The protagonists in the film 1.5 – STAY ALIVE bring an urgent message from the Caribbean to the international community:
Help us limit global warming to 1.5°C!

With current temperature increases at half that, the Caribbean region is already feeling the heat. Sea level is rising, coasts are er...

When you think of California, what images pop first into mind? Ocean … beaches … mountains … healthy living … Hollywood … beautiful people.

All of which are true. But so is the fact that California is the third largest oil producing state in the nation.

Today while four-term Governor Jerr...

From Peter Charles Downey, the director of Surviving Earth and Animal Mundi, comes Esteem, a documentary about the relationship between our inner psyche and the state of the environment.

It is a profound documentary that explores the fundamental reason behind the environmental crisis. It sugge...

Light of the Genji (9 min) explores the study, appreciation and preservation of the Genji fireflies in Japan. The film features (in order of appearance in the film): Rei Ohara, Dr. Nobuyoshi Ohba, Dr. Marc Branham, Zack Lemann.

Light of the Genji 9 Mins
Produced by James Karl Fischer
Direct...

On a rainy night in May of 2012 a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany on the governor’s front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing.

With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the moratorium on fracking in New York any day, the event was ...

To the Ends of the Earth follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era.

The people we meet are uniquely positiond to watch this glo...

What does the face of hunger look like?

Is it a child in Ethiopia? An aging man in Somalia? Or a family in poverty-stricken India?

This eye-opening documentary will change your whole perception on what hunger looks like.

In America today, one in six people, including hard-working men and...

Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man’s vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town’s only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell’s dream is to conserve one m...

In Hampton Roads, Virginia, the U.S. military is fighting to save its highest concentration of bases from sea level rise, attempting to solve one of the greatest challenges to our national security and economic prosperity the nation has ever faced.

THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF THE 93 MINUTE VERSION for Public Screenings.
Subtitles files in the download folder are: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful de...

Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night (12 min) explores the importance of darkness, and erosion of it, through the study and preservation of firefly habitats in Japan and the United States. Fireflies disappear as artificial night lights disrupt their ‘languages of light’. Brilliant Darkness: Ho...

To the Ends of the Earth follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era.

The people we meet are uniquely positiond to watch this glo...

Wellfleet Harbor off of Cape Cod Bay features a particularly striking and unusual tidal environment. Central to its ecosystem are naturally occurring wild Oyster beds and increasingly important shellfish aquaculture grants. During the spring and early summer high tides it is also the meeting plac...

Exuma is a documentary film that uses innovative cinematography above and below the surface to highlight the surreal beauty of the Exuma Cays. The Exumas are a string of small islands in the Bahamas and this film is the first to highlight the beauty of these remote ʺout islands.ʺ The film is a wi...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

99% of the plastic that should be floating in the oceans is missing. Even accounting for the plastic that washes up on beaches or is trapped in arctic ice, millions of tonnes has simply disappeared.
As most plastic never deteriorates, it simply breaks down into smaller and smaller particles that...

In its journey across the majestic Canadian countryside, The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of earnest farm families, and serves as a window into the food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.

The film begins in Nova Scotia with egg fa...

Since 2008, under President Obama’s watch, the drilling and fracking industries have boomed across the United States. Today more than 17 million people live within a mile of at least one new oil or gas well. Pro-drillers argued this rush would create a newfound “energy independence” in the U.S. I...

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil is an informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits includ...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

Young Australian filmmaker Heidi Lee Douglas goes to Tasmania to make a documentary about the destruction of the island’s ancient forests. As anti-logging protests escalate, logging giant Gunns Ltd reacts to public pressure by suing Heidi and 19 others for $6.4 million for allegedly conspiring to...

In Italy there’s a strong tradition of in working with wood. In this documentary we start in the Forest of Violins in Paneveggio. Each tree is specially selected and felled for its quality grain. The forest is never over-harvested, with a mindfulness of preserving the forest and the traditional t...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

When an Australian garbage collector, Stuart Harris, takes a photo of a tiny colourful spider, he has no idea how it will change his life. There follows an epic three-year quest in which Stuart discovers much more than just a spider unknown to science. A remarkable story of determination, self-di...

Olisarali Olibui, a member of one of Africa’s most isolated tribes carries a Kalashnikov in one hand and a camera in the other, with which he chronicles the struggle of his tribe to protect their land and way of life. Olibui grew up in remote Mursiland where, after seeing westerners with cameras,...

“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate.

The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has othe...

The Nature of Cities explores both the nature in are own backyards – Austin and San Diego and the possibilities in projects of cities of the future – Malmo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Freiburg, Amsterdam and Paris.

The film features Sustainable Communities professor Timothy Beatley as he tours the...

For over a century along the Klamath River, injustice has reigned. Native tribes, there since time immemorial have had their human rights, their spiritual traditions, and their habitat trampled by settlers and industry. A River Between Us tells the story of the oldest and most bitterly disputed w...

GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is a powerful documentary about greed and a merciless battle over a limited resource: wild elephants and rhinos.
There is a war against nature raging in the savannahs and jungles of Africa and Asia. The illegal trade in wildlife is estimated to generate $20 billion per yea...

AUTISM IN AMERICA is a powerful and emotional documentary that chronicles families living with autism. From moderate cases to extreme, the film explores what it’s like living with this developmental disability on a day-to-day basis. What is autism? What does that word truly mean? ”Autism in ...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

A follow-up film to ANCIENT FUTURES: Learning from Ladakh.

A documentary following two women from Ladakh, or Little Tibet, a remote region in the Himalayas, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. They are exposed to aspects of modern urban life homelessness, ...

Tulare Lake in California’s Central Valley was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi. By the year 1910, the lake had been completely dried by water diversion and land reclamation, along with the dislocation of the Valley’s indigenous people. Today the region maintains the most productive ...

Written On Water focuses on the Ogallala Aquifer and examines the conflicts, politics, economics and groundwater depletion in the High Plains region. Farmers and communities survive on the precious waters of the Aquifer, yet it is being depleted at alarming rates. Since the 1960’s, advances in ir...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

This inspiring documentary, presents three ecologically responsible farms in the USA and Canada. Their unique business plans eliminate the middle man, use sustainable methods and few fossil fuels and show a decent living can be made! These new farming practices avoid the destructive trap of indus...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

DEEP GREEN: Solutions to Stop Global Warming Now
Travel to 9 countries with Matt Briggs to uncover the best ideas, cutting-edge technologies and restorative solutions to help curb climate change.

Energy Efficiency
Most of us don’t think about how much energy we’re using until it’s time to p...

The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries...

The Gauchos del Mar brothers perform an unprecedented expedition by foot with 35kgs+ on their backs during 53 days on the easternmost tip of Tierra del Fuego Province, a pristine area where no one lives. The brothers have the goal of surfing a world-class wave never ridden before at the Cape San ...

Sand Wars is a surprising investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet. Due to the high demand for sand, the planet’s reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters of the world’s beaches are in decline and bound to disappear as victims of erosion, or of sand smuggli...

The Edge of the Wild is a documentary about a 30-year land-use battle over privately owned property that is also home to endangered butterflies. The film takes place on San Bruno Mountain, a remarkably intact wilderness that is completely surrounded by urbanization and is just one mile south of S...

It’s amazing how many people who live surrounded by ocean, just a few feet above sea level, never learn to swim. In May 2014 National Geographic ‘ocean hero’ Jon Bowermaster organized a learn-to-swim camp in the Maldives to teach 50 3rd graders and 20 of their burka-clad mothers how to swim. In a...

Walden: a short legacy film was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s classic book, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.

Walden combines delicate and brilliant images filmed
on location around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts with readings by poet, John D. Ogden, bringing to life the heart and sou...

This is the story of the Salton Sea, its rich history and the challenges it faces. As the need for water in the American southwest becomes critical the decisions we make now will impact people, animals and the environment for generations to come. There will be no turning back from the pathway we ...

The film explains the biological logic behind the altruism behavior, through the extraordinary research of Prof. Amotz Zahavi on cooperative breeding birds in the Israeli desert: the Arabian Babbler birds.

(Burned in English Subtitles)
Hebrew Language Dubbed in English
Produced and Directed ...

A SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE TO ENCOUNTER THE BAOBABS OF MADAGASCAR AND THE VEZO, A NOMADIC TRIBE OF THE SEA
By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. Relatively unknown in Madagascar, the giants are currently threatened by deforestation. To st...

“Who Bombed Judi Bari?” profiles the late, legendary labor and forest organizer Judi Bari and her struggle with FBI defamation after she and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed in Oakland in 1990 while on college tour to save the redwood forest of northern California. Despite receiving death threats, ...

The environmental problems caused by fracking in America have been well publicised but what’s less known are the gas industry’s plans for expansion in other countries. This investigation, filmed in Botswana, South Africa, Alaska and North America, reveals how fracking plants are quietly invading ...

A look at the ethics of the natural gas extraction process known as “fracking”. The film covers political, spiritual, scientific, medical, and professional points of views of hydraulic fracturing. It also takes a look at the deceiving advertising the gas industry heavily relies on.

Participant...

invaded by numerous exotic species over the last century. “Lake Invaders: The Fight For Lake Huron” is a documentary which explores the threat to Lake Huron’s ecosystem and the innovative solutions employed by biologists. Biologists from around the Great Lakes describe invaders such as the sea la...

In 2016, the food crisis in Venezuela is once again dire as the country struggles with economic mismanagement and collapsing oil prices. GROWING CHANGE offers a historic looks into the not to distant past within this decade, to become food secure. The film, created in 2010/2011, follows the film...

Director's Cut: 73 mins. Subtitles in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Maori, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
This package also contains 40 shorts (4-8 mins long) and subtitles in English for all shorts.

In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so conc...

Watershed Revolution is a 30-minute film that profiles community members and organizations working to protect and restore Ventura, California’s watershed. It highlights the need for open space and floodplain protection, sustainable agriculture, and community awareness of our most precious resourc...

Bluebird Man tells the story of 93-year-old Alfred Larson, a self-taught conservationist who has committed the last 35 years of his life to saving Idaho’s bluebirds. In the late 1970s Al was inspired to join a growing movement of citizen scientists who over the past three decades have helped reve...

Losing the West is a documentary on small ranching and farming, exemplified by the story of a lifelong Colorado cowboy. Howard Linscott IS the original Marlboro Man, a gruff, chain-smoking 70-year-old who’s been ranching all his life. With sweeping shots of the Colorado Rockies, the film explores...

Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. Irons...

Haiti is known to be the poorest country of the western hemisphere and is still struggling to get on its feet from a disastrous earthquake, but Haiti’s real problem is the complete degradation of its natural resources. Natural forests cover today less than two percent of its territory. Scientists...

How we can learn about ecological solutions from an ancient Culture?

Ladakh, or Little Tibet, is a wildly beautiful desert land high in the western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet, for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture.

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Red Wolf Revival is a short film about the last remaining wild population of red wolves. Centered on the historic recovery effort in Eastern North Carolina, we document the multifaceted struggle to reintroduce one of the rarest animals on earth in the face of cultural, economic, and biological ch...

HEAR ME NOW features compelling and informative on-camera interviews with Columbine survivor Craig Scott, anti-bullying activist Kirk Smalley, who tragically lost his son to suicide, and dozens who have been affected by bullying and continue to be affected, giving viewers a candid look inside the...

Ecological economists, whose work is making a positive impact on the planet, illustrate their models to ease many environmental problems. Concepts of Sustainability, Ecological Economics, and Natural Capital are defined by their case and we are introduced to concepts us that make these results ac...

The New Science of Sustainable Beekeeping. From the forests of Mexico to the farm lands and cities of North America, learn how successful beekeepers overcome challenges and develop sustainable practices to improve the quality and quantity of honey bee populations.

Saving the Life Keepers, reve...

FREIGHTENED – The Real Price of Shipping, reveals in an audacious investigation the mechanics and perils of cargo shipping; an all-but-visible industry that relentlessly supplies 7 billion humans and holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.

90% of t...

Daniel Everett is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin’s Pirahã people and their language. The Grammar of Happiness is a documentary that explores whether one man’s journey into the heart of the Amazon can redefine our understanding of human language.