Environment Movies

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film...

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight...

In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest. Through fragments of lives that...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

Through the eyes of ex-engineer, now filmmaker Gillian McKercher, Orphaned explores the huge task of cleaning up thousands of idle oil and gas wells...

Years after an avian-spread disease forces humanity into secluded cities, a foolhardy scientist and his wife, a wayward survivor, spend a night at a...

The fires that have devastated Australia left behind countless injured and orphaned animals. This is the story of rescued joeys and their adoption by...

It’s now 40 years since the end of the Cod Wars between Britain and Iceland. During the 1950s and 60s, Britain consumed 430,000 tons of cod...

In the depths of the Colombian jungle, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked away. It has turned into a delusional tourist...

Ocean seemed to be unchanging and inexhaustible for ages. But the effect of mankind actions on its biodiversity and its temperature is alarming. In...

In less than 150 years, 97.3% of British Columbia's old growth forests have been logged. These ancient trees and their ecosystems have been lost...

Filmed primarily in Alaska, The Aquarium contrasts the openness of the primeval Arctic landscape with the entrapment of captured sea mammals in...

When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of stars, a simple question – what do we lose,...

The Rapanui community on Easter Island fights to prevent an environmental collapse due to overwhelming tourism and industrial progress, and to...

Dynamite blasts echo through canyons as construction for the southern border threatens flora and fauna for centuries to come.

An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem....

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's...

2031. Climate change has been faster than expected. On the canopy of an island submerged by rising waters, a team of young scientists collects seeds...