Films about environment
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 12, 2013
Is darkness becoming extinct? Exploring the physical and psychological effects of light pollution, The City Dark is a portrait of the world after dusk, and a meditation on the human relationship to the stars.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: April 18, 2018
Bill Nye is on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking. This intimate film features the life and work of TV's favorite scientist.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Jan. 1, 2018
In the Light of Reverence is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect their sacred sites.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Oct. 9, 2017
On the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, the longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in the whales, decimated seabird populations, and anti-whaling activists. The Faroe islanders consider themselves a canary in the mine, their tale a warning to the rest of the world. Winner, 2016 DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: Sept. 25, 2014
At the height of the Cold War, sixty-five indigenous Greenlandic families were forcibly relocated from their homes to make way for an American military base. More than fifty years later in Qaanaaq, the town created 100 kilometers away, filmmaker Nicole Paglia talks to some of the people who remember their old village, the homes and the traditional lifestyle they were forced to abandon.
Digital Project
Digital Premiere: Sept. 15, 2014
The Most Northern Place tells of a clash of cultures and a conflict about territory during the run‐up to the Cold War, which led to the forced relocation of the Inuit population native to the town of Thule by the U.S. Army, circa 1953.
Digital Project
Digital Premiere: Sept. 15, 2014
Faced with an invisible stain that embeds itself into the essence of life, a small group of Fukushima survivors refuse to relinquish the land they love. The Invisible Season creates a nonlinear stream of consciousness resulting in a chronicle of, and testament to, Fukushima residents' humanity in the face of unspeakable odds..
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 25, 2014
Big Men, executive produced by Brad Pitt, goes to Ghana to provide an unprecedented look at the global deal making and dark underside of oil development — a contest for money and power that is reshaping the world.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 28, 2014
After an earthquake levels Beichuan, China, a modern replica rises with astounding speed, but while a city can be rebuilt quickly, reconstructing a community’s heart and soul is a long, emotional journey for the survivors.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: March 12, 2014
The Meier brothers' nursery faces the edge of the Garzweiler II coal pit. Every day the digger comes closer. A grey and lonesome world—except for one hidden place.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: March 5, 2014
In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work and carved the pit into a pig.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: March 5, 2014
Wood follows the journey of timber from the forest through the sawmill and presents a portrait of the working men we find along the way.