Pollution Movies

With dreams of colonising Mars and beyond, billionaires such as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos are fuelling a boom in the space industry. But many criticise...

For five days in December 1952, a thick smog suffocated the British capital causing the death of thousands of Londoners. The health catastrophe lead...

When their forest home is burnt down to make way for a palm oil plantation, Scor, a walking tree, must go on a long journey to find a home for...

Inspired by true events. "Boswellia sacra" is a short feature film about nature which draws a parallel between the environment and the protection of...

Actor Jeremy Irons investigates the global scale and impact of humanity's modern wasteful consumerism and pollution. The film is a call for urgent...

In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of...

A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka

There are ticking time bombs off the coasts of the world, of which the public has hardly been aware: 6,300 wrecks, sunk during the Second World War,...

Plastic Peril explores the devastating impact of plastic waste on the waterways and drainage systems of Lagos, Nigeria. This thought-provoking...

Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that...

"Origins" takes a journey through the biological roots of where we have come from and where we have gone. Using fire as a metaphor for technology,...

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

A compilation of conferences/debates between renowned designers, environmental activists, and students on the concept of design. Held in Aspen,...

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products,...

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed...

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with...

More than two decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic...

Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial...

PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security...