Environments & Ecologies

Thematic collections of films on the only world we live on and the changes it is going through and what they may mean for us and our children, and their children.

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  • The Last Tourist

    Directed by Tyson Sadler • Documentary • With Dr. Jane Goodall, Lek Chailert, Elizabeth Becker • 2022 • 100 minutes

    Travel is at a tipping point. Tourists around the world are unintentionally destroying the very things they’ve come to see. From the Caribbean, to the streets of Delhi, and remote ...

  • Dark Eden

    Directed by Jasmin Herold and Michael Beamish • Documentary • 2018 • 80 minutes

    On a journey for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?", the directors explore Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil...

  • Becoming Animal

    Directed by Emma Davie, Peter Mettler • Documentary • 2018 • 79 minutes

    An inspired collaboration between filmmakers Emma Davie (I Am Breathing) and Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and radical writer and philosopher David Abram ("The Spell of the Sensuous"), Becoming Animal is an urgent and imme...

  • The Great Toilet Battle

    Directed by Arnaud Robert • Documentary • 2022 • 66 minutes

    Nowadays flushing “human waste” away translates into millions of tons of water waste which has a negative impact on the environment, including water pollution. On another hand, in many parts of the world, people do not have access to sa...

  • This Stolen Country of Mine (w/ Fernando Villavicencio)

    Directed by Marc Wiese • Documentary • With Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, Fernando Villavicencio • 2022 • 93 minutes

    Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic documentary.

    This Stolen Country of Mine ...

  • Malintzin 17

    Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky and Mara Polgovsky • Documentary • 2022 • 64 minutes

    Filmed from the unusual vantage-point of a second-floor apartment window, MALINTZIN 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. 

    For seven days and nights filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-...

  • Solutions

    Directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær • Documentary • With Steen Rasmussen, Eric Beinhocker, Doyne Farmer • 2021 • 102 minutes

    In the desert of New Mexico, a group of scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators come together with an ambitious goal: to secure the future of humanity by creating a new an...

  • Taming The Garden

    Directed by Salomé Jashi • Documentary • 2021 • 92 minutes

    A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order...

  • Sarasota Half In Dream

    Directed by Derek Murphy • Documentary • 2018 • 70 minutes

    Sarasota Half in Dream is a surrealist nature documentary about growing up in the American suburbs, specifically Sarasota, Florida. This trippy, meditative film explores the shifting landscapes, the parking garages, and the microscopic h...

  • Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty

    Directed by John de Graaf • Documentary • 2022 • 78 minutes

    Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history.

    Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty is a feature documentary that examines the trajectory of Udall’s life from his childhood throug...

  • Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island

    Directed by Heidi Hutner • Documentary • 2023 • 77 minutes

    In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history.

    RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is an award-winning film about the 1979 ...

  • Beautiful Things

    Directed by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasin • Documentary • With Andrea Pavoni Belli, Van Quattro, Danilo Tribunal • 2017 • 95 minutes

    Beautiful Things is a journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate and we believe to be essential begin their production journey in...

  • Scrap

    Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum • Documentary • 2022 • 78 minutes

    Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documenta...

  • The Great Basin

    Directed by Chivas DeVinck • Documentary • 2023 • 91 minutes

    Chivas DeVinck works his way up from the soil to the stars to find out what constitutes Nevada outside of Las Vegas. Milieus, places and people are intertwined in a collage. The magnetic core of the whole is the subterranean water from...

  • The Vow from Hiroshima

    Directed by Susan Strickler • Documentary • 2020 • 77 minutes

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    THE VOW FROM HIROSHIMA is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 85-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship wit...

  • Sustainable Communities

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  • Thirst for Justice

    Directed by Leana Hosea • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes

    Armed only with facts and their illnesses, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to protect clean water.  From Flint, Michigan to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story. 

    Thirst For Jus...

  • Climate Change

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    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 ...

  • Environmental Justice

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    Much like popular movements to dismantle the scourge of racism, the fight for environmental justice is one centered on overcoming systems that accrue privilege, supremacy and economic gain to the powerful while disenfranchising, dehumanizing and externalizing true costs to people of color and the...

  • Food & Agriculture

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  • Plastics & Pollution

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  • Tomorrow

    Directed by Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion • Documentary • With Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion • 2015 • 155 minutes

    In 2012, “Nature” published a study led by more than 20 researchers from the top scientific institutions in the world predicting that humankind could disappear between 2040 and 2100. It ...

  • Water
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    Water

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  • Summer of Dolphins

    Directed by Shahar Segal • Documentary • 2007 • 82 minutes

    Three dolphins that have been excluded by their pod in the coral reef are set free by their trainer. Maya, who had raised them from birth, realizes that if Lemon, Shandy and Pashosh stay in the pod, they will die.

    Did you know that a do...