Films
Documentaries on soil, water, seeds, fungi and the people who look after them. Each film links to the bioregion it is set in and to the voices in our directory who appear in it. Browse by bioregion.
- Future · 20192040Directed by Damon Gameau
A filmmaker imagines the world in 2040 if solutions that exist today were scaled up, with his young daughter in mind.
In the directory: Kate RaworthDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Ocean · 2017Chasing CoralDirected by Jeff Orlowski
A team of divers and photographers sets out to record coral reefs bleaching as it happens.
Coral Sea & New Caledonia IslandsDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Soil · 2023Common GroundDirected by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
The follow-up to Kiss the Ground. It follows growers and ranchers who are changing the food system from the farm up.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Soil · 2009Dirt! The MovieDirected by Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow
A film about soil as a living system and what happens to people and places when it is treated as dirt.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Fungi · 2019Fantastic FungiDirected by Louie Schwartzberg
Time-lapse photography and interviews on fungi as the hidden network that feeds forests, heals and recycles.
In the directory: Paul StametsDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Food system · 2008Food, Inc.Directed by Robert Kenner
A look inside the industrial food system in the United States and the people who work for something different.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Food sovereignty · 2020GatherDirected by Sanjay Rawal
Native American communities reclaim food traditions, restore land and protect their seeds, rivers and young people.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Earth · 2009HomeDirected by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
An aerial portrait of the planet in fifty-odd countries, showing how people have changed the places they live in.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Bees · 2019HoneylandDirected by Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
A woman keeps wild bees in a remote village in North Macedonia. The film asks what taking only half looks like.
Dinaric Mountains & Balkan Mixed ForestsDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Soil · 2020Kiss the GroundDirected by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
How farming can pull carbon out of the air and into the ground, told through farmers, scientists and ranchers who changed how they work.
In the directory: Ray Archuleta, Gabe Brown, Allan SavoryDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Ocean · 2020My Octopus TeacherDirected by Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
A filmmaker visits the same kelp forest every day for a year and builds a relationship with a wild octopus.
South African Cape Shrublands & Mountain ForestsDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Art and place · 2001Rivers and TidesDirected by Thomas Riedelsheimer
Andy Goldsworthy makes ephemeral works from ice, stone, leaves and water and lets the tide and the weather finish them.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Seeds · 2014Seeds of TimeDirected by Sandy McLeod
The story of crop diversity, climate change and the people who store seeds so that agriculture can adapt.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Soil · 2012Symphony of the SoilDirected by Deborah Koons Garcia
An introduction to soil as a living community, and to the farmers and scientists who work with it.
DetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Farm · 2018The Biggest Little FarmDirected by John Chester
A couple leave Los Angeles and spend eight years turning barren land into a diverse farm, with all the setbacks that brings.
Greater CaliforniaDetailsBuy or rent on Amazon - Indigenous resistance · 2019The Condor and the EagleDirected by Sophie Guerra, Clayton Thomas-Müller
Indigenous leaders in North and South America connect pipeline and extraction fights to a shared way of looking after land.
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