A riveting, highly informative look at the ongoing conflict between Amazonian natives defending their land against transnational petroleum corporations.

If clean and sustainable energy sources are so cost-effective, why are we still drilling, fracking, and mining?

It was once believed that birds were messengers whose flight and song could be interpreted to foretell the future, but over time, as the world became increasingly industrialized, we lost the connection we once shared with their world. Through her documentary, director Su Rynard hopes to call our attention, once again, to what the songbirds […]

“This is not about polar bears,” so says Naomi Klein in this gripping documentary overview, based on her 2014 best seller. It’s to her credit that she faces head-on the notion that viewers may suffer from climate fatigue and that the film refreshingly eschews alarmism. Neither does the film scold; Klein is uninterested in debating […]

Produced and Directed by Dena Seidel Released by First Run Features USA. 72 min. Not rated The realities of climate change are painful; the reality of studying it is painstaking. That work, chronicled in Antarctic Edge: 70° South, focuses on a group of scientists making an annual trip to what has been called “the land […]

Directed by Douglas Kass and Roger Kass Produced by Roger Kass Released by Music Box Films English, Italian, French & German with English subtitles USA/Italy/Germany/France/Cyprus. 77 min. Not rated In 2010, famed novelist and occasional essayist Jonathan Franzen published a long piece in The New Yorker titled “Emptying the Skies,” about the illegal trapping of […]

Directed by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Screenplay by Wenders, Salgado and David Rosier Released by Sony Pictures Classics English, French, and Portuguese with English subtitles France/Brazil/Italy. 109 min. Rated PG-13 At times while watching photographer Sebastião Salgado in Wim Wenders’ latest documentary (in collaboration with the subject’s son, Juliano), you wonder how Salgado […]

Written and Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel Produced by von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara. Available on Netflix UK.97 min. Not rated In 2013, Netflix released the Oscar-nominated documentary The Square, chronicling the ongoing dangers following the Egyptian revolution. With Virunga, the digital content giant continues its trend of releasing compelling, timely documentaries about some of […]

Filmed, Edited, Produced and Directed by Judy Irving Released by Shadow Distribution USA. 80 min. Rated G A California brown pelican blocks traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. Bystanders watch as bridge security capture it and place it in the back of a waiting police car. Someone jokingly comments, “Awww, he got arrested.” Not quite, […]