Environmental Movies
check out these films- when we get back to school and after the AP exam we might view one or more of these, depending on what happens, but here's a list you may enjoy
(Thanks to APES teacher Megan Thaler for this list and descriptions)
Climate Change
Agriculture/Food
Energy
Activism
Biodiversity/Extinction
Consumerism/Pollution
(Thanks to APES teacher Megan Thaler for this list and descriptions)
Climate Change
- The 11th Hour (2007)
- Chasing Ice (2012)
- Before the Flood (2016)
- Chasing Coral (2017)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- The Island President (2011)
- Climate of Doubt
Agriculture/Food
- Meat The Truth (2008)
- Cowspiracy (2014)
- Dirt! (2009)
- Food, Inc. (2009)
- Fed Up (2014)
- King Corn (2007)
- Tapped (2009)
- Biggest Little Farm (2019)
- Game Changers (2019)
Energy
- Gasland (2010)
- After the Spill (2015)
- Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
- The Switch (2012) Working toward a fossil free energy future is a reality. It’s happening now. The Switch examines our love affair with energy and how we can carry on with real resources that are renewable and carbon neutral. The film also examines our inability to let go of fossil fuel extraction and posits why it is so hard for us to let go…hint, energy lobbies. The film relies heavily on facts and figures that can bog down the narrative (it’s an educational piece after all) but that doesn’t detract from the film’s importance and the huge amount of information it offers the viewer.
- To the Ends of the Earth (2016)
- Dirty Business (2009)
Activism
- If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
- A Fierce Green Fire (2012)
Biodiversity/Extinction
- More Than Honey (2013)
- Racing Extinction (2015)
- Troubled Waters (2015)
- The End of the Line: The World Without Fish (2009)
- The Cove (2009)
- and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills, change Japanese fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. Warning: GRAPHIC DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER
- Virunga (2014)
- Darwin’s Nightmare (2005)
Consumerism/Pollution
- The True Cost (2015)
- Trashed (2012)
- Plastic China (2017)