Featured Film Selections
We’re excited to share these amazing climate stories focused on environmental justice, climate solutions, and the power of community. During this time of social distancing, we hope the Library can support the use of storytelling as a tool to bring your community together (whether it’s in person or from your couch!).
Start by checking out the featured selections below. Once you find a film that fits your organization’s goals, register your film here to kick off the process!
Current Revolution
American Resilience Project’s new film series offers a strategic narrative for accelerating our transition to a cleaner and more equitable electric grid.
Director: Roger Sorkin
Duration: 37 min
License Price: Starting at $89
Cooked: Survival by Zip code
Examining the 1995 Chicago record-breaking heat wave that resulted in over 700 deaths. A look at the people most affected by natural disasters and the politics involved.
Director: Judith Hefland
Duration: 93 min
License Price: Starting at $149
Planet Prescription
Planet Prescription captures stories from health professionals as they witness how air pollution and climate change are impacting human health, especially children's health and the communities impacted most by racial injustice during the COVID-19 crisis.
Director: Dayna Reggero
Duration: 20 min
License Price: FREE
The Human Element
In this riveting and visually rich drama blending art and science, we follow renowned environmental photographer James Balog as he explores wildfires, hurricanes, sea level rise, a struggling coal mining community, and our changing air supply.
Director: James Balog
Duration: 76 min
License Price: FREE
Uniontown
Uniontown weaves together the unheard individual narratives of grassroots organizers in Uniontown, Alabama, as they fight to take back the town from the hands of industrial polluters and complacent politicians in the midst of a high stakes local election.
Director: Fraser Jones
Duration: 16 min
License Price: FREE
WATER WARRIORS
Water Warriors is the story of a community’s successful resistance against the oil and gas industry. When an energy company begins searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, Indigenous and white families unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.
Director: Micheal Premo
Duration: 27 min
License Price: $84 - $125
Toxic City *SCEN Member
Folks who live in some Birmingham, Ala., neighborhoods are trapped in communities with deadly levels of industrial pollution. People have been leaving for decades, but many are stuck, unable to afford to get out. “Toxic City: Birmingham’s Dirty Secret” is an award-winning 26-minute documentary about the people left behind.
Director: Hunter Nichols
Duration: 26 min
License Price: FREE
Chasing Ice
Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Duration: 76 min
License Price: FREE
Chasing Coral
Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Divers, photographers and scientists set out on an ocean adventure to discover why the reefs are disappearing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Duration: 93 min
License Price: FREE