Can anyone recommend a good Environmentally-focused documentary or film?

Question

It will be shown to environmental studies majors at an earth-focused overnight retreat. Most have already seen An Inconvenient Truth, so something other than that.

Answer 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

the one above is the responce to an inconvienient truth, it shows the other side of the story and contradicts some of the points put forth by al gores film....

I strongly believe you should watch it for a balanced approach.

Answer 2

I watched a documentary on the tall grass praries last night. It was really interesting. It goes all the way back to before the natural praries where settled. It is all on the natural life that lived there and how the land was changed, species lost and how conservationists are returing the now framed land back to its natural prarie.

I found the site for the film. It is listed below, you should check it out, it has a lot of info also regarding the history and life and times. enjoy!

Answer 3

How about this?

NOVA - World in the Balance: The Population Paradox (2004)

http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-World-Balance-Population-Paradox/dp/B00018U8YE/ref=pd_sim_d_2/103-9869441-4806253?ie=UTF8&qid=1175534674&sr=1-2

Somebody will surely recommend the swindle video. [EDIT And they did.] It is scientifically inaccurate to say the least.

The director made a similar movie in 1997. Channel 4 had to issue a public apology for that one.

"Against Nature argues that greens in First World countries are responsible for the deprivation and death of millions of children in the Third World. In their callous disregard for human welfare and their fetishism of nature, greens, it maintains, are not merely conservative, but fascist, drawing their inspiration from precisely the same ideologies as the Nazis. It would be laughable, had it not been given three hours of prime time TV."

http://www.videonetwork.org/stuff/againstnature.html

This one is similar in quality.

" A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

"pure propaganda"

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/0313pure_propaganda_the.php

Scientific rebuttal here.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/

Even Channel 4 doesn't believe that nonsense is correct. If you go to their website, on the page for the film are links to factual global warming sites. You can "Ask an Expert" and your question goes to a respected mainstream scientist who says man is mostly responsible for global warming.

Answer 4

"Who killed the Electric Car?"

http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/

Although presented as a "tongue-in-cheek" murder mystery, this is a movie "that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future".