Plastic Planet
A global view of the age of plastic, from its beginnings to the increasingly serious implications it has for humans and the environment.
A global view of the age of plastic, from its beginnings to the increasingly serious implications it has for humans and the environment.
A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.
The documentary reveals how water can become a catalyst for explosive community resistance to globalization.
This award-winning film exposes just how deep-rooted our dependency on fossil fuels has become, and what this means for those who live in regions affected by oil extraction and for the future of life itself.
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
Director Peter Mettler takes to the skies in order to probe the scale of the Alberta Tar Sands—one of the largest energy projects on earth—and its environmental impact.
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.
This dramatised film portrays the fate of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, dispossessed of their land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to make way for cultivation of genetically modified crops.