Pollution Movies

A toxic spill threatens the town of Urtajo: tackle the problem or cover it up? Javier will learn that not everything can be bought with money.

This mockumentary is narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons and tracks the “migration” of a plastic bag from a grocery store...

A meek young man allows a stripper to stay in his house while his domineering mother is hospitalized.

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,...

The economic concepts of property rights and pollution are discussed, focusing on the theft of a bicycle.

Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year...

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...

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 modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled...

Whose Dominion? The Pollution of Cleveland County takes a very brief look at some of the environmental issues in Cleveland County, N.C.

Underground people who exhale toxic gas appear in Tokyo's S-Ward, which is dealing with construction noise from urban development projects. Everyone...

Tamara is from the ocean and water runs in her veins. Born in a fishing village on the Mexican coast, she became a full-time scuba instructor. When...

In Tacony Creek Park, home to one of Philadelphia's lesser-known watersheds, Julie Slavet and Malcolm Bundy reflect on their involvement with and...

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Eleni Mylonas’ SeaMonster II, is a performance for the camera drawing attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea....

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of...