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The documentary follows the aquatic journey of Christopher Swain, who decided to swim 1,243 miles from the Canadian headwaters of the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, in order to raise awareness of the river's polluted, degraded condition. Director Andy Norris filmed interviews with scientists, Native American leaders and others who speak convincingly of the need to restore the Columbia to a more pristine state. This means eliminating at least some...

The roughest of Alaska's oil-rig roughnecks, Forrest Taft specializes in fighting oil-well fires. Yet he faces an even more incendiary battle against renegade Aegis Oil president Michael Jennings. Aegis has put profits over environmental safety. And that puts Taft, a Native Alaskan activist and anyone else opposing the company on its hit list. But Taft hits back, using the martial arts, survival and explosives skills he learned as a high-level CIA...

In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about environmental justice. What does the term "environmental justice" mean? Why are Black Americans seventy-five percent more likely to live near hazardous waste locations? How has the Dakota Access Pipeline challenged Native Americans' pursuit of environmental justice? How does global warming harm minority and migrant communities most at risk? How can you make a difference to mitigate environmental...

Shows life in the small Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, and the difficulties residents face with the impacts of sea level rise as their Island disappears with each passing storm.

Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, this award-winning documentary follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness. After the Scottish government overturns its own environmental laws to give Donald Trump the green light to build a golf resort on an untouched Scottish coastline, the stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action.

Documentary explores both sides of the conflict between mountain bikers who create illegal trails on government land and federal land managers.

Fashion designer Amy Powney of the cult label Mother of Pearl is a rising star in the London fashion scene. Raised off-the-grid in rural England by activist parents, Amy has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished...

A searing documentary exposes, uncovering the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary ever seen, it presents a cohesive timeline of how people got to the current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance...

Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.