Top environmental docs and movies
These green films are sure to answer any questions you have about environmental issues.
GREEN SCREEN: From 'An Inconvenient Truth' to 'Wall E', these films are sure to entertain and inform. (Photo: Courtesy of Pixar) 
It’s an obvious pick, but this doc is a great primer on global warming. Its message is sobering, true, but Al Gore says that if we act boldly, quickly and wisely, we can solve this climate crisis.
Based on a true story, Julia Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a small-town gal who takes on chemical company PG&E after coming across suspicious medical records from a nearby town. It’s that rare tale of David taking on Goliath, and winning.
If you think that electric cars are a new idea, think again. This documentary goes back to the mid-'90s to dig out the GM EV1 electric car, a popular green vehicle quickly buried by auto industries and greedy politicians.
When dealing with the global warming crisis, think big. That’s the message behind this global warming documentary that offers exciting and radical solutions from leading scientists and innovators to help save the planet from total climate catastrophe.
This computer-animated science-fiction tale is a futuristic look at an Earth so polluted by mass consumerism that humans had to leave it. Wall-E clearly has an environmental agenda, but it gets the message across without preaching.
Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin travel 13 countries in this two-part documentary on some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, including global warming, species extinction and water pollution.
The true-life account of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), an Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on her company’s dangerous practices and then mysteriously “disappeared.”
In this true story, John Travolta defies stereotypes about out-for-themselves personal injury lawyers. Sticking his own neck out, he sues a major corporation for contaminating a town’s drinking water with industrial solvents.
This Emmy-winning series travels the world to show the connection between all animals, big or small. The beautifully scenic shots alone will give you a renewed appreciation for all things great and small.
The white picket fence never seemed so threatening. This documentary takes a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of suburbia, and asks whether this lifestyle can ever be truly sustainable.
This documentary looks at our addiction to oil and the inevitable chaos that's sure to ensue once it runs out. The film outlines the challenge while highlighting our desperate need for an alternative energy source.
This Frontline documentary investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth's looming environmental disaster and examines whether major corporations and governments are up to the challenge.
This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's fresh water supply, asking the question, “Can anyone really own water?”
Comments
Avatar is not only a well done movie with great special effects it is a parallel to what multinational corporations have been doing in Third World Countries with our government's complicity.
Avatar is about a fictional planet called Pandora that is inhabited by the Navi the indigenous people. A mining interest wants a precious mineral for it's own use with total disregard for the natural environment of the region and the indigenous people who live there.
This movie is great and.... More
1983 Local Hero is still my all time favorite environmental movie, and it was way ahead of its time, yet is still so on target. American Texas oil company CEO sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village that sits on a fragile eco system area. Its a MUST see movie!!
I'd like to add my own little wow machinima to the list as well please you can find it at treebadger.com
Another great top ten list. I would of course agree with an inconvenient truth and to me it has been the biggest influencing tool I can use on others who are unsure about the effects of global warning, it's hard to mess with the facts.
