Een kwade bosgod infecteert een prins met een dodelijke ziekte. Hij zal sterven als hij geen geneesmiddel zal vinden, maar het lijkt er op dat hij in het Oosten van het rijk hulp kan vinden.
De Amerikaanse ingenieur Bill Markham verhuist met zijn gezin naar de rand van het Amazonewoud in Brazilië, waar hij meewerkt aan de bouw van een gigantische waterdam. Tijdens deze werken wordt zijn vijfjarig zoontje Tommy ontvoerd door een volksstam uit het regenwoud. De komende tien jaar spendeert Bill elk vrij moment aan de zoektocht naar zijn zoon en hij spaart hier kosten noch moeite voor. Zijn volharding levert uiteindelijk vruchten op: hij vindt Tommy en hij maakt kennis met de leefwereld van zijn zoon en de stamleden.
In het jaar 2067 is de aarde door de klimaatverandering verwoest en is de mensheid op zuurstoftanks aangewezen. Een redmiddel tegen de huidige problemen is het bouwen van een tijdmachine op kwantumniveau, in de hoop contact te maken met de mens in de toekomst. De arbeider Ethan, die een persoonlijke missie heeft, wordt om deze reden naar de toekomst gestuurd.
David Attenborough en wetenschapper Johan Rockström onderzoeken de ineenstorting van de biodiversiteit op aarde en hoe deze crisis nog kan worden afgewend.
Diep in de hete en vochtige jungle van het Amazone-gebied helpt Alyssa Rothman de brutale fotojournalist E.J. bij het onderzoek naar de sluipmoord op een vooraanstaand milieu activist. Dat beiden bij dit onderzoek tegengewerkt worden is al snel duidelijk. Om deze moord op te lossen zullen zij tot het uiterste moeten gaan.
Het verhaal van de eigenhandige zoektocht van een herder om in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw een verlaten vallei in de uitlopers van de Franse Alpen opnieuw te bebossen.
Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.
When a wealthy real estate company, backed by a powerful minister decides to build a township in a reserve forest area, it cuts off access to the water body to the elephants living in the area, endangering their lives. An eco-warrior decides to fight for their cause at a time when nobody else would.
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.
In this second film in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.
Narrated by Mel Gibson, The Last Trimate is a compelling account of the work of Birute Mary Galdikas -- who, alongside Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, is one of the three formidable women to have dedicated their lives to the great apes of the world -- she highlights the plight of the elusive 'red ape' and offers some hope for their survival as their very habitat is decimated at a startling rate.
Deze documentaire gaat over de strijd tussen de inheemse bevolking en de Peruaanse overheid over land en de economische situatie in de Amazone. President Alan Garcia wil met Peru graag wereldspeler worden met het winnen van olie, mineralen en gas.
Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.
Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.
Filmmaker Michal Siewierski embarks on an audacious journey to expose the real reasons behind the Amazon forest fires and the alarming rate of deforestation in Brazil. Ranging from people’s food choices, to major political corruption, corporate greed and crimes against people and nature. Takeout tackles the facts and stories that traditional media outlets are too afraid to cover.
Twee van de enige drie bekende leden van de Piripkura leven nog op nomadische wijze in de Amazone, in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Mato Grosso. Hun belangrijkste bezit is een fakkel die in 1998 is aangestoken en sindsdien niet meer is uitgegaan.
Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rain forest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.