Climate Change
The documentaries in OVID’s Climate Change Collection take viewers on a global tour through the effects of planetary warming, from the melting of polar ice caps to the front-line resistance of indigenous communities. Anthropocene, Planetary, Antarctic Edge, and Strait Through the Ice uncover the rapidly changing face of our environment. In the activist-driven documentaries Dirty Business, Groundswell Rising, and A Concerned Citizen, the long-standing political conflict with the fossil fuel industry takes center stage.
Alongside the planetary effects of climate change, documentaries like Triple Divide, Split Estate, and Cooked foreground the disproportionate impacts on poor and minority communities. Oil and Water and Keepers of Justice center on grassroots indigenous activism, where the struggle for environmental justice is also a struggle for survival. Rounding out to collection, Inhabitants, Post-Carbon Futures, and Racing to Zero point the way to a more sustainable and socially just future.
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Planeat
Directed by Shelley Lee Davies & Or Shlomi • Documentary • 2011 • 72 minutes
Where have we gone wrong? Why has the death rate from heart disease and cancer exploded in recent times? Why are the ice caps melting, the oceans dying and the forests being cut down as we produce the food necessary to ...
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Planetary
Directed by Guy Reid • Documentary • 2016 • 84 minutes
We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that every living thing is connected.
PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call—a cross continental, cinematic journey. The film tak...
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Racing To Zero
Directed by Christopher Beaver • Documentary • 2015 • 55 minutes
Only one third of the waste in the United States is recycled or composted. Why? Industry, through its practice of planned obsolescence, plays a major role; our lives are almost totally dependent on unrecyclable petroleum products. ...
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A Quest for Meaning
Directed by Nathanael Coste, Marc de la Menardiere • Documentary • 2018 • 87 minutes
A QUEST FOR MEANING tells the story of Marc and Nathanael, two childhood friends who take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and to discover a way to bring about...
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Sacred Cod
Directed by Steve Liss, Andy Laub, David Abel • Documentary • 2017 • 65 minutes
For centuries, cod was like gold, driving men to extremes. Cod were so abundant in the waters off New England that fishermen used to say they could walk across the Atlantic on the backs of them, and generations of me...
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The Sequel
Directed by Peter Armstrong • Documentary • 2018 • 61 minutes
Around the world, fresh shoots are already emerging as people develop the skills, will and resources necessary to recapture the initiative and re-imagine civilization, often in the ruins of collapsed mainstream economies.
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Shattered Sky
Directed by Steve Dorst & Dan Evans • Documentary • 2012 • 57 minutes
Thirty years ago, scientists reported a hole in the ozone layer 'the size of North America.' The culprits were man-made chemicals called CFCs, which were prevalent in billions of dollars worth of refrigeration, air conditionin...
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A Shepherd
Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes
In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship betwe...
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Split Estate
Directed by Debra Anderson • Documentary • 2009 • 76 minutes
Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door using the controversial technology known as fracking. Imagine an...
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Thank You for the Rain
Directed by Julia Dahr and Kisilu Musya • Documentary • 2017 • 87 minutes
Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see ...
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Triple Divide [REDACTED]
Directed by Joshua Pribanic, Melissa Troutman • Documentary • 2017 • 53 minutes
This award-winning "bombshell" documentary covers the impact of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted...
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The True Cost
Directed by Andrew Morgan • Documentary • 2015 • 92 minutes
This is a story about clothing. It's about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs...
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Weather The Storm
Directed by Charles Menzies and Jennifer Rashleigh • Documentary • 2008 • 36 minutes
In today's global economy, the world's ocean resources are being hit hard. Enormous industrial 'floating factories' follow the fish wherever they are abundant, and move on when they have plundered the fish stock...
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Windfall
Directed by Laura Israel • Documentary • 2010 • 83 minutes
Wind power: it's sustainable... it burns no fossil fuels... it produces no air pollution. What's more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil.
That's what the people of Meredith, NY first thought when a wind developer looked to suppleme...
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The Wisdom to Survive
Directed by John Ankele & Anne Macksoud • Documentary • 2014 • 56 minutes
THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE accepts the consensus of scientists that climate change has already arrived, and asks, what is keeping us from action? The film explores how unlimited growth and greed are destroying the life support ...