Pollution Movies

  • 2015
    Smog Journeys

    Smog Journeys

    Smog Journeys

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    Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous...

    Smog Journeys
  • 1990
    Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez

    Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez

    Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez

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    On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of...

    Cousteau: Alaska: Outrage at Valdez
  • 1984
    Wild Beasts

    Wild Beasts

    Wild Beasts

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    PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security...

    Wild Beasts
  • 2017
    A Plastic Tide

    A Plastic Tide

    A Plastic Tide

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    Over eight million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, killing sea life. Now new evidence says it's entering our food chain with unknown...

    A Plastic Tide
  • 2008
    Die Eisbombe

    Die Eisbombe

    Die Eisbombe

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    A family in eco-fever. The Schuhmann Weils are radical environmentalists and mother their 19-year-old son like a small child. One day, when a chunk...

    Die Eisbombe
  • 2024
    Food for Profit

    Food for Profit

    Food for Profit

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    The film exposes the links between Agrifood and politics. With a pool of international experts it analyses the many problems related to factory...

    Food for Profit
  • 2021
    The Cost of Cobalt

    The Cost of Cobalt

    The Cost of Cobalt

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    In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

    The Cost of Cobalt
  • 1970
    SeaMonster II

    SeaMonster II

    SeaMonster II

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    Eleni Mylonas’ SeaMonster II, is a performance for the camera drawing attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea....

    SeaMonster II
  • 1973
    Your Chance to Live: Pollution

    Your Chance to Live: Pollution

    Your Chance to Live: Pollution

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    A surrealistic look at the future if man does not learn to control pollution.

    Your Chance to Live: Pollution
  • 2005
    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

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    In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled...

    An Enemy of the People
  • 2024
    Moving Ice

    Moving Ice

    Moving Ice

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    Ice has always moved. When glaciation took hold some 34 million years ago, interconnected rivers of ice combined to produce the Earth's vast ice...

    Moving Ice
  • 2013
    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

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    Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and...

    Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
  • 2023
    Mom, Letter to the Earth

    Mom, Letter to the Earth

    Mom, Letter to the Earth

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    A young man pens a deeply personal letter to his "mother," expressing gratitude and seeking forgiveness. Yet, this isn't just any mother, she's the...

    Mom, Letter to the Earth
  • 2010
    The Majestic Plastic Bag

    The Majestic Plastic Bag

    The Majestic Plastic Bag

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    Mockumentary - A plastic bag encounters enemies and escapes death on its epic migration to its final destination: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

    The Majestic Plastic Bag
  • 1970
    An Imminent Threat

    An Imminent Threat

    An Imminent Threat

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    “An Imminent Threat” follows a fisherman activist, Yngve Larsen, who fights against oil and gas drilling activities in north of Norway....

    An Imminent Threat
  • 1963
    A Land Betrayed

    A Land Betrayed

    A Land Betrayed

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    Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Academic Support Center Film Library, Keep...

    A Land Betrayed
  • 2009
    Cambio de sentido

    Cambio de sentido

    Cambio de sentido

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    Cambio de sentido
  • 2023
    Les Fantômes du Pétrole

    Les Fantômes du Pétrole

    Les Fantômes du Pétrole

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    Les Fantômes du Pétrole
  • 2025
    Phillips

    Phillips

    Phillips

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    While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject.

    Phillips
  • 2011
    Plasticized

    Plasticized

    Plasticized

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    PLASTICIZED is a film that places the viewer aboard a transatlantic expedition, as if one of the crew, revealing the unembellished evidence that the...

    Plasticized