Environmental causes (movies)
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- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoChristiane MartelReinhold OlszewskiAn illiterate Indian (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of a US oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are irrevocably destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means. Based on the novel by B.Traven.
- DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsIgnacio López TarsoJaime FernándezAurora ClavelA worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.
- DirectorPierre HébertStarsPatrick Watson
- DirectorDouglas TrumbullStarsBruce DernCliff PottsRon RifkinIn a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsMarie-Luise MarjanWolfgang GrönebaumHeinz SchachtEvery day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
- DirectorZdenek Miler
- DirectorDavid O'MalleyStarsDenver PyleJohn DehnerKen BerryBased on the life of Galen Clark, whose determined efforts led to the creation of Yosemite National Park. When he is diagnosed with terminal tuberculosis, and disappointed that he hasn't accomplished anything significant with his life, Clark decides to vanish into the California mountains to die. But after surviving a series of perilous misadventures, including a heartening encounter with famed explorer John Muir, he regains his spirit. Newly inspired, he launches a courageous battle against the aggressive lumber companies threatening to cut down the rare and precious forest of giant Sequoias. His fight to save the wilderness takes him first to Sacramento, and then Washington, D.C. where he convinces President Abraham Lincoln to declare Yosemite the first public land grant, paving the way for creation of the National Park System.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsPeter FondaGino FrancoHarry NorthupAn Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.
- DirectorHans DahlbergStarsTeddy RhodinMarrit OhlssonStefan WånggrenThree city kids are taken somewhat reluctantly to a farm out in the forests of Sweden. There they meet the resident country kids who's rosy cheeks and youthful antics mirror the apathy and cynicism of the children grown up in the callous and barren streets of the city. In the country, strange and mysterious things are afoot. Sudden fires, cars braking down and enigmatic sightings point to there being more than the modern man fathoms in the woods. People talk of trolls and beings in the woods, guardians of the land, but the grown ups do not believe and the cynical city children say such talk is nonsense.
- DirectorRalph BakshiStarsBob HoltJesse WellesRichard RomanusOn a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.
- DirectorVera Plívová-SimkováStarsTomás SimekDana VávrováMichal HofbauerTomás' hobby is to search for rare birds and to take care of nature and animals. He and his friends use their free time to clean the forest of debris left by others, using the material to build a sculpture of a brontosaurus.
- DirectorRoger YoungStarsRon HowardArt CarneyTarah NutterA farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
- DirectorZdenek MilerKrtek and meste.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsZaide Silvia GutiérrezDavid VillalpandoErnesto Gómez CruzAfter their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
- DirectorDon OwenStarsIsabelle MejiasPeter SpenceLeslie TothSeventeen year old Isabelle Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life directionless. Isabelle becomes involved with an anti-nuclear group that her boyfriend Jessie 'Fixit' is connected with and is arrested at a demonstration.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsSumi ShimamotoMahito TsujimuraHisako KyôdaWarrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPowers BootheMeg FosterYara VaneauAfter the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
- DirectorCharles BailStarsStephen CollinsJanet JulianBo SvensonA "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsJürgen ProchnowSenta BergerAgnès SoralIn a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.
- DirectorFrancis MegahyStarsPierce BrosnanRay McAnallyAlison DoodyAn Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless and have sent their heavies into town to keep the locals quiet.
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsBrad DavisJack ThompsonLouise LaparéDramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985.
- CreatorPierre Colin-ThibertGerald PottertonStarsTedd DillonBrian DooleyRichard M DumontThe tiny denzins of a paradisical island must prevent stupid treasure hunters from wrecking their environment.
- DirectorPer ÅhlinStarsAllan EdwallRobyn CarlssonOlle SarriWhen a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsMarvelous Marvin HaglerFrancesco QuinnBrian Dennehy"Indio", a half-Indian ex-Marine, fights to save the rainforest against the forces of a mega corporation that is trying to destroy it to make money, headed by a former US Army colonel.
- CreatorPeter KeefeStarsRussi TaylorJim CummingsKath SoucieWidget is an alien that has come down from the sky to learn about humans with the aid of his sidekick, Brain. They explore the world and educate kids on health, safety, emotions and dangers.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenRobert DaviRae Dawn ChongWidowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
- CreatorNicholas BoxerTed TurnerThom BeersStarsDavid CoburnJoey DedioKath SoucieA quintet of teenagers work together to encourage environmentally responsible behavior and can summon a superhero to deal with ecological disasters.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsRon LeaGraham GreeneMichael HoganA white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsMarvelous Marvin HaglerFrank CuervoDirk GalubaA corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the company of its Indian problem. Sgt. Irons, a former Marine NCO, helps to unite the jungle tribes and leads them in their fight to protect their homes and their families.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsSean ConneryLorraine BraccoJosé WilkerIn the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
- DirectorPaul SeedStarsJohn HeardBob GuntonMark MetcalfThe real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsJon VoightSam NeillBruno LawrenceThis film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by the New Zealand Police (led by Sam Neill) which revealed French government responsibility. The ship was on its way to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsJon PertweePeter DavisonSylvester McCoyIn a future London suffering from toxic air pollution, a reporter, his mentor, a weatherman and an environmental activist discover they are connected and set out to expose the corrupt Airzone Corporation.
- DirectorLuis LlosaStarsCraig ShefferSandra BullockJuan FernándezDeforestation of the Amazon is forcing indigenous Indians away, so few men can profit from cattle. Opposition gets killed. A US photojournalist tries to investigate. Activist Alyssa helps him.
- DirectorSteven SeagalStarsSteven SeagalMichael CaineJoan ChenA blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.
- DirectorRoslyn SchwartzStarsHarry HillSheena LarkinMark TraffordLate at night, a couch-potato couple watches a documentary on the Arkelope, a rare animal hunted down to a single survivor. The doorbell rings...
- DirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJason BegheA group of loggers working in a remote forest unearths thousands of deadly insectlike creatures that paralyze and cocoon their victims. Scully, Mulder and a few others end up trapped there.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsRaul JuliaCarmen ArgenzianoSonia BragaBased on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder.
- CreatorJonathan M. ShiffStarsMarzena GodeckiDavid HoflinJeffrey WalkerSet against the beauty of Far North Queensland, Ocean Girl is the story of Neri, a mysterious young girl from the ocean, who is discovered by the young inhabitants of an underwater research colony.
- DirectorDwight H. LittleStarsJason James RichterMichael MadsenFrancis CapraTeenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
- DirectorAmy Harrison
- StarsWalkin' Jim Stoltz
- DirectorAaron NorrisStarsChuck NorrisTerry KiserMax GailA shape-shifting mountain man and a group of children team up to protect an enchanted forest from evil lumberjacks.
- DirectorMike StubbsGift was shot in the notorious post-industrial lunar landscape of the Wolfen-Bitterfeld district of former East Germany, where composer Ulf Langheinrich was born. The area is famous as a great environmental disaster, a product of uncurbed open-cast mining and chemical production. Although the devastation belongs to a past era of massive state industry, some coal mining continues, using vast mobile diggers built in the 1930s. This object lesson in environmental vandalism, is now an eco-tourist attraction, reflecting the tensions between the old East Germany and the new, post-unification Germany. The hypnotic electronic music is constructed and mixed from the industrial sounds recorded on location.
- DirectorSigi RothemundStarsLeslie MaltonPeter von StrombeckRobert StadloberA Greenpeace expedition ship in the arctic anticipates an environmental catastrophe. An arctic glacier as large as France will soon break down into the ocean producing a flood wave one of which will wash away large parts of the northern European coast. However German officials are not willing to take Greenpeace' warnings for serious. Two days later the wave is on its way...
- DirectorThomas BohnStarsHannes JaenickeIngo NaujoksDésirée NosbuschCountess Tatjana von Selasinsky is not willing to accept entrepreneur Mauss' environmental behaviour any longer. Not only that the region lacks ground-water because of his milk production, now he is planning to build a big plant to produce one-way packing plastics. She hires two men who she thinks will be able to stop Mauss' plans - be it legally or even illegally. What the countess doesn't know is, that both men already know each other from the anti-nuclear-plant riots in Wackersdorf ten years ago. One belonged to the police forces and one to the violent demonstrators.
- DirectorColine SerreauStarsColine SerreauVincent LindonJames ThierréeOn a distant planet, rural vegans master telepathy and mental power to travel interstellar etc. Mila is sent to Earth to report back. She lands in Paris - quite a cultural shock. Earthlings are strange.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsYôji MatsudaYuriko IshidaYûko TanakaOn a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
- DirectorStefan JarlStarsRobin MilldoffJohn BelindoJan Malmsjö13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector. Kim decides to remain out in the forest and live off what nature provides. Soon, however, Kim's assignment becomes more serious. He has to try and save as many animals as he can from man's pointless killing, and he will stop at nothing.
- DirectorMartin GoldmanMichael SpenceStarsMorgan BrittanyDavid RichardsGeorge CharlesA young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
- DirectorSteve KroschelStarsThomas Ian GriffithCaroleen FeeneyR. Lee ErmeyA helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two years later, the wife takes on a corporation which wants to extend an oil pipeline across the tundra above Juneau. She is convinced that this will cause an avalanche on the town. Of course, she is rejected by the corporation executives. She recruits the pilot to try to aid her, but with no success.
- DirectorDan LernerStarsJohn CorbettJosie BissettBradley WhitfordThe ozone is depleted and as a result of this all sorts things are happening like lethal insects flying around. A scientist tries to warn everybody about this but no one seems to believe him. When his predictions come true they now turn to him for help.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsPierce BrosnanStewart BickVlasta VranaThe story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
- DirectorWhitney RansickStarsMarcus GrahamAlexandra PaulDennis GarberA young man joins a band of crusaders who fight fear and social injustice.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJulia RobertsAlbert FinneyDavid BrisbinAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
- DirectorDavid LeaJohn WilliamsA warning regarding the possible outcome of a nuclear disaster and the effect it would have on the environment. Here, terrifying science fiction becomes reality.
- DirectorStefan ScainiStarsJonathan ScarfeAlan ScarfeKristin BoothRobert Wraight moves to a small town with his family to make a fresh start. Unfortunately things take a turn for the worst when the family is struck by disaster. Robert's recently purchased land appears to be contaminated and his children are becoming terribly ill. Everything gets out of control, when the oil company and local government responsible for the contamination decide not to take the matter serious.
- DirectorTill NowakAn old man lives a lonely life under the dark shadows of industrial smog. One day he receives a mysterious package which gives him the ability to change his environment.
- DirectorLeslie McCleaveStarsCatherine KellnerEbon Moss-BachrachJames UrbaniakTwo exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check up on toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canadian border, and deliver Jay (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) home to his mother's house in Detroit. The trip takes a turn for the weird as they begin to suspect they are trapped.
- DirectorPaul ZillerStarsKaitlyn BurkeMichael OntkeanHelen ShaverThe family of eleven-year-old Emily (Kaitlyn Burke) searches desperately for her after she becomes lost in the Great Bear Rain Forest.
- DirectorAlan GorgStarsBetty MatwickLarry RoopRobert TenaA trouble, dissipated city youth is influenced by an indigenous spirit to be drawn back home to defend the land of his ancestors against exploitation by oil and mining interests.
- DirectorEmma LandoltSam WalkerStarsKatherine CusackPeter Heath
- DirectorEd RoeDougal WilsonStarsMartin FreemanJames LanceAnna FrielA man dumps the garbage of his neighbours. Little does he know that this is going to affect his relationship to a woman.
- DirectorSean PennStarsEmile HirschVince VaughnCatherine KeenerAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
- DirectorDavid GarrettStarsEric BolschPilar WitherspoonAna WalczakA young boy one day becomes bored with his stereotypical life and decides to take matters into his own hands.
- DirectorTony Baez MilanStarsJohn KlemantaskiDarren KendrickGlen VaughanAs our world suffers the ravages of humankind, scientists look for ways to sustain life. When one of them falls ill and a chrysalis forms around him, a tug of war ensues about the future of the stricken scientist.
- DirectorLucio OlmosStarsRoberto Olmos MoralesWendy Monserrat Reyes MartinezMother Earth, bearing the wounds of human exploitation, transforms into a young woman to witness her own destruction through her eyes. But will she be able to take action, or simply watch the destruction unfold hopelessly?
- DirectorAndrew StantonStarsBen BurttElissa KnightJeff GarlinIn the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
- DirectorMatt HammillStarsMatt HammillDae JungMatt MurrayA toxic factory tries to clean up his act with disastrous results.
- DirectorMikkel Blaabjerg PoulsenStarsJørgen BrorsenSevern Cullis-SuzukiNatalie Diemer-NezerA girl has a bad dream in which she has to face various ecological disasters due to global warming. A short film produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.
- CreatorAlbert BarilléStarsRoger CarelHélène LevesqueMarie-Laure BenestonThis series of the French animated project 'Once Upon a Time...' is devoted to the problems of ecology and sustainable living.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
- StarsMaureen DorMaia JoubertMehdy RiouIn a destroyed world, the only glimpse of hope is the memory of a forgotten past. But be careful not to let your dreams control your mind.
- DirectorBrad PorterStarsTravis SmithAndrew WarslawA short film that explores the wastefulness of humanity.
- DirectorGeefwee BoedoeStarsJim ThorntonIn the spirit of 50's & 60's educational films, 'Let's Pollute' is a modern satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong, while instructing us how to be better polluters for a better blighted tomorrow.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsKudzani MoswelaChantelle BurgerTammy RichardsA sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- DirectorJenny DellerStarsPerla Haney-JardineJennifer MacDonaldCorey AbshineA 13-year-old girl reimagines her life as a public service announcement, blurring the lines between her family struggles and her fear of environmental apocalypse.
- DirectorChris TeagueStarsJosh RenfreeSarah SteeleA young environmental activist finds her ideology tested in a forest on the verge of being clearcut.
- DirectorDougal WilsonStarsHayley Elizabeth CarsonGillian AndersonPeter CrouchA variety of men, women, and children in everyday situations are graphically blown to pieces for failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic about the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
- DirectorGreg PakStarsTim KangReyna de CourcyBetty GilpinA parable about change in which a jaded government undersecretary for a failed global warming agency ends up much greener than he ever imagined possible.
- DirectorAndrey ShushkovAn inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
- An elderly Guajira man, who lives in the forest in the Sierra de Perija mountain range with his grandson, embarks on a journey to the city to obtain food. However, upon his return, he discovers that his home and the entire neighborhood have been devastated by a mining company. The film points to the devastation of the Venezuelan forests, which are the home of the indigenous people.
- DirectorGiulia BrazzaleLuca ImmesiStarsNicola ArabiRenato Geremicca2054: Global warming and pollution have seriously damaged the Earth. On a beach, a boy finds a strange container.
- DirectorKrystof ZlatnikStarsHanna SchwambornHorst Günter MarxMarc HosemannTeenage girl Lys is discovered inside the reactor of the newly build TERRA Power Plant and finds she is developing special powers that connect her to the energy of all living things.
- DirectorSuzi YoonessiStarsPriscilla CameloBeth GrantVictoria SchmitIn this environmentally barren and hardscrabble future, teenage Isabel desperately offers hope to her eight-year-old sister Lily, by telling a fairy tale allegorically explaining how this tragic world came to be and its possible salvation by finding the "spring of sorrow."
- DirectorAntonio D'AquilaStarsSabrina CroccoClaudio EmilianiMichele GiampaoloIn the near future, the Earth is toxically contaminated, and nothing can grow on its surface. A young scientist receives a package from an unknown sender containing an extremely rare resource - fertile soil.
- DirectorGarth McCarthyStarsConrad AlexanderElisabeth BosmanSean BrebnorIn the nearby future, in a world that is in the grip of acid rain and general ecological disintegration, two people watch a pirate television broadcast from an environmental activist. One is an idealist, the other a cynic. Then something happens that may change an opinion. Or maybe not.
- DirectorAmit K. BabooaStarsHervé BertyManu CartignyLaure GougetEnvironmentalists are sometimes considered more like clowns. There are still many people who reject their warnings for various reasons and criticize their actions. This is also why environmentalists are portrayed as clowns in this short film, set in the near future. Other people are fleeing from the ecological disasters that they have caused themselves through deforestation and carelessness towards nature, but the clowns stay and restore hope.
- DirectorHanna Maria HeidrichStarsCornell AdamsDannel FortsonIn the midst of the smoggy New York rush hour, an exceptional encounter takes place.
- DirectorGiuliano CavalliJorge Mario SuárezStarsCamilo AlimacoLuis AlimacoGonawindua is the Most Important peak of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. For the Kogi, is the center of the planet, the Origin of all Things. Because of it, the mission of the Kogi as 'Older Brothers' is to Protect it from the ignorance of the 'Younger Brothers'-The non-natives - Whose irresponsibility with mother Nature has Provoked the rage of Sezhankwa, the Creator. Kankuemaku, and old Mamo (Kogi Shaman), entrusts His young apprentice Cenkui to make a Payment (Spiritual Work) in one of Their sacred territories. In the future, a couple years beyond 2088, The Consequences of our Acts are evident caps of the landscapes of the Sierra Nevada. Nevertheless, historical Makes Payment Cenkui.
- DirectorJesus OrellanaIn the near future, humanity has disappeared, leaving behind a large megalopolis devoid of natural life. From the destruction awakes ROSA, a robot part of the KERNEL project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem using recovered samples of long-extinct plant species. Wandering among the ruins of the lifeless city, Rosa will soon discover that she is not the only part of Kernel that has awakened.
- DirectorA.J. AudetStarsEthan FlowerBrian AtkinsonCarrie Keranen
- DirectorYukihiro ShodaStarsYume KitanoTetsuya OdaRisa WatanabeThe film imagines a parallel-universe version of Japan which also suffered a nuclear crisis but was less lucky than its real world counterpart. It's a place where fallout readings are a part of the weather forecast and gas masks are as ubiquitous as black suits and Gucci bags.
- 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.
- DirectorNick TrivundzaStarsReed DanielsErin GilleyCole PantherA reporter and a cameraman from television are invited to an exclusive interview with the director of the fictitious trading company by radical environmentalists. However, they do not know that the interview will not be voluntary at all.