Earth Day Turns 50
This year, people around the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd during a global pandemic and mostly from their homes. Check out these amazing dramas and documentary films to be reminded how amazing – and how vulnerable – our home planet is.
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova, one of the last "bee hunters" in Europe, raises bees based in a sustainable and minimally invasive manner.
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- Macedonia • 2019
- Director Tamara Kotevska
- Cast Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Make the World Greta Again
Upon realising her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament. What started as a one person strike soon gained global momentum.
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- United Kingdom • 2019
- Director Milène Larsson
- Cast Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Anna Taylor, Scarlet Possnett, Anuna De Wever
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Human Flow
When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home.
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- Germany, United States, China • 2017
- Director Ai Weiwei
- Cast Boris Cheshirkov, Marin Din Kajdomcaj, Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, Abeer Khalid
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, FlixFling, Kanopy, Hoopla
Okja
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend — a massive animal named Okja.
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- Korea, United States • 2017
- Director Bong Joon Ho
- Cast Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Ahn Seo-hyun, Byun Hee-bong, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
A Plastic Ocean
We need a wave of change.
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- United Kingdom, Hong Kong • 2016
- Director Craig Leeson
- Cast Craig Leeson, Tanya Streeter
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla
Born in China
An epic journey into the Chinese wilderness that follows the adventures of three animal families: panda, golden monkey, and snow leopard.
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- United Kingdom, China, United States • 2016
- Director Lu Chuan
- Cast John Krasinski, Zhou Xun
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
How to Change the World
The Revolution Will Not Be Organized
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- Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands • 2015
- Director Jerry Rothwell
- Cast Robert Hunter, Paul Watson, Rex Weyler, Bobbi Hunter, David Garrick
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Mad Max: Fury Road
In an apocalyptic future, two rebels join forces.
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- Australia, United States • 2015
- Director George Miller
- Cast Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones
- Genre Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
The Salt of the Earth
(Le sel de la terre)
A journey through the Earth's wrath and beauty with Sebastião Salgado.
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- France, Brazil, Italy • 2014
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders, Hugo Barbier
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Frozen Planet
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- United Kingdom, United States, Spain • 2011
- Creator David Attenborough
- Cast David Attenborough
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, BBC America, Spectrum On Demand, Discovery +, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, Max Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , Max
Melancholia
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
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- Denmark, Sweden, France • 2011
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on fuboTV, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy, Plex Channel
Océans
What wonders await under the surface of the oceans?
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- France, Switzerland, Spain • 2009
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Pierce Brosnan, Lancelot Perrin
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Earth
This documentary follows three remarkable, yet sadly endangered, families of animals across the globe.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2007
- Director Mark Linfield
- Cast Patrick Stewart, Constantino Romero, James Earl Jones, Ken Watanabe, Ulrich Tukur, Anggun
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Global Dimming
Science Documentary hosted by Jack Fortune and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Horizon series in 2005 - English narration
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- United Kingdom • 2005
- Director David Sington
- Cast Peter Cox, Graham Farquhar, Beate Liepert, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Michael Roderick
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
March of the Penguins
(La Marche de l'empereur)
In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.
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- France • 2005
- Director Luc Jacquet
- Cast Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Morgan Freeman, Torsten Michaelis, Andrea-Kathrin Loewig
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Spirited Away
(千と千尋の神隠し)
A ten-year-old girl must save her parents from hostile spirits.
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- Japan • 2001
- Director Hayao Miyazaki
- Cast Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Bunta Sugawara, Yumi Tamai, Ryunosuke Kamiki
- Genre Animation, Family, Fantasy
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube