US-amerikanischer Sciencefictionfilm von Richard Stanley aus dem Jahr 1990, der in einem 21. Jahrhundert der nuklearen Zerstörung angesiedelt ist. Der Ex-Soldat und Cyborg Baxter kommt vom profitablen Schrottsammeln auf die Erde zurück und kauft einen metallischen Kopf, den er an seine Freundin verschenkt. Plötzlich stellt sich heraus, dass der Kopf noch lebt...
Mit der Erfindung der Dampfmaschine fing es an. Mit revolutionärer Rasanz machte sich der Mensch die Erde untertan. Eine Erfindung jagte die nächste, eine Technologie toppte die andere. Für mehr Komfort. Mehr Konsum. Mehr Wohlstand. Und die Erde? Wie lange hält sie den Menschen angesichts der ungeheuren Umweltzerstörung noch aus? Jean-Robert Viallet blickt anhand von Archivaufnahmen aus aller Welt in die Geschichte der letzten beiden Jahrhunderte, von der Kohle-Ära bis in die Zeit von Big Data.
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
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.
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
This film is about the cow living in an polluted enviroment.
Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial chemicals (and in Soviet times, chemical weapons) employ a quarter of the 300,000 residents in a city where life expectancy has fallen to 42-47 years, the death rate is 2.6 times higher than the birth rate, and the men are close to impotence. Reporter Tim Samuels recorded a series of in-depth interviews with the inhabitants of Dzerzhinsk for the Correspondent strand, revealing what life is like for the beleaguered populace.
Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.
A man tries to survive one night of pollution and ghosts.
Whose Dominion? The Pollution of Cleveland County takes a very brief look at some of the environmental issues in Cleveland County, N.C.
Something is bad wrong as everyday Americans fight to protect their air, water and blood from pollution.
A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona – homeland of the Hopi and Navajo.