Green Planet Films
Series
Language
English
Description
Mirror Mirror on the wall…please tell us how you are made. Join Joel and contest winner, Genna on this unique episode to answer the winning quest letter about how mirrors are made. Greene and Genna travel to North Carolina to experience the fascinating process of mirror making.
Series
Language
English
Description
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 in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries for environmental justice in their communities. Narrated by Robert Redford, The New Environmentalists illustrates how ordinary people are effecting extraordinary...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This is a documentary about Judi Bari vs. the FBI, her advocacy for both ancient redwoods and timber workders, her death-bed deposition, and the successful court ruling for justice and vindication. Who Bombed Judi Bari? profiles the late, legendary labor and forest organizer and her struggle with the FBI's attempted frame-up after she and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed in Oakland, California in 1990 while on a college tour to save the redwood forest...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her roots in the rugged mountain wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, an award-winning war photographer and former tree planter turns her expert lens on herself and a community of tree planters who overcome grueling conditions and emotional difficulties to bring back the forest one tree at a time. Driven by the perseverance and vulnerability of its subjects as much as by the harsh beauty of the landscape, Forest for the Trees is a...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hear Me Now is a stylish and poignant documentary featuring compelling stories from dozens who have been affected by bullying in schools and continue to be affected, giving viewers a candid look inside the world of bullying and the inspiration to find hope amid the darkness.
7) Red Ice
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The polar regions are being affected by global warming much more intensely than any other part of the world. The global mean temperature has risen around 1.1 degree Celsius since 1990, but in the Arctic it has risen more than twice that number. Global warming threatens to change that whole fragile ecosystem even faster than in the rest of the world. The situation is becoming more and more dramatic each year and we are approaching a point of no return....
8) Bluebird Man
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 reverse bluebird declines by setting up networks of nestboxes specifically designed to provide nesting habitat for this emblematic bird.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 small-scale food production process that modern-day consumers have become estranged from.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Surviving Earth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Surviving Earth is an independent Australian documentary featuring insight from Professor Tim Flannery, Ian Dunlop, Professor Paul Ehrlich, permaculturalist David Holmgren, Aboriginal elder Uncle Bob Randall, Professor Ian Lowe, Major-General Michael Jeffery (retired), and Bindi Irwin. Topics include resource depletion, climate change adaptation/mitigation and overpopulation.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 are invisible to the human eye. In this investigative program directed by Vuincent Perazio, scientists embark in search of the micro-plastics. Small, mostly...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
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, 13 countries and nearly 20,000 miles camping and surfing along the American continent, from LA to southern Chile, they returned home.
15) Written on Water
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 1960s, advances in irrigation technology have allowed farmers to transform the "Great American Desert" into their own fertile agricultural oasis. The Ogallala supports over one-fifth...
16) Losing the West
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
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 whether cherished Western traditions and this fiercely independent lifestyle can survive as they collide with inevitable population growth in the West...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 industrial food production and its financial burden. With the participation of Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, and leading American environmentalist,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 study them in the heart of their forests, the French biologist Cyrille Cornu travels by pirogue with his colleague Wilfried Ramahafaly, exploring 250 miles of wild and isolated coastline in the southwest of Madagascar.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 Sky and Helena, Montana. Jim hiked over 28,000 miles through the wilderness of North America—a true mountain man who experienced the wonder and wisdom of...
20) Defendant 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 destroy the company’s business. When Heidi discovers Gunns wants to use her footage as evidence to support its claims, she faces a crisis of conscience....