A Sea Turtle Story (2012)

Koyaanisqatsi - Uma Vida Fora de Equilíbrio. As relações entre os seres humanos, a natureza, o tempo e a tecnologia. Cidade, campo, paisagem, rotina, pessoas, construções, destruição. Um documentário sem atores e sem diálogos, composto por uma impressionante coleção de imagens e uma marcante trilha sonora.

O crescimento de Tóquio durante os anos 60 originou uma explosão urbanística nos subúrbios; montanhas foram aplanadas e florestas abatidas. Os tanuki, uma espécie de guaxinins, vêem-se ameaçados pelo desenvolvimento dos humanos: a área habitável reduz-se, bem como os recursos alimentares. A falta de comida conduz a guerras internas, mas a sabedoria dos anciões canaliza a energia e a frustração de todos os tanuki contra o inimigo comum: o Homem.

Numa floresta, criaturas mágicas pedem ajuda a um humano quando vêem a ameaça de destruição por causa de máquinas e tratores. O drama se torna maior quando uma árvore que está para ser derrubada pode libertar o espírito do mal.

Ganhador de um Oscar, o documentário mostra as crianças nascidas após o desastre nuclear de Chernobyl em 1986, que nasceram com defeitos cardíacos.

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.

Azul Profundo é um épico cinematográfico cujas imagens irão impresionar os telespectadores com sua beleza e atordoa-los com sua grandeza. Intensificar o impacto do filme é uma nova pontuação orquestral composta especificamente para o Deep Blue por cinco vezes indicado ao Oscar George Fenton (Gandhi, Cry Freedom) e gravado pela Orquestra Filarmônica de Berlim. Um dos projetos mais singulares e abrangentes já realizado no campo do cinema documentário, Deep Blue mergulha a platéia para o espetáculo do mar e os leva em uma viagem desde o mais raso recife de corais até as margens áridas da Antártida, a partir de vastos trechos de mar aberto para a paisagem noturna de abismos profundos do oceano.

O ex-vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos Al Gore apresenta uma análise da questão do aquecimento global, mostrando os mitos e equívocos existentes em torno do tema e também possíveis saídas para que o planeta não passe por uma catástrofe climática nas próximas décadas.

April 8, 2003: Karsten Heuer + Leanne Allison left the remote community of Old Crow,Yukon, to join the Porcupine Caribou Herd on their epic life journey. For 5 months the Canadians migrated on foot with the 123,000-member herd from wintering to calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and back again — 1500km across snow and tundra. They completed their journey on Sept. 8, 2003.

Shot on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Bahamas, Ocean Wonderland brings to you the amazing beauty of the many varieties of coral and the immense diversity of the marine life thriving there.

The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Passando por várias localidades, do Mediterrâneo e Oceano Índico, o documentário investiga e captura os mistérios dos habitats aquático, como: barcos naufragados, jardins de corais e a rica fauna com suas cores deslumbrantes. Um retrato que vai de encontro com a brutalidade da exploração submarina e do mundo natural. Codirigido pelo famoso francês oceanógrafo Jacques-Yves Cousteau e o jovem Louis Malle.

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family's wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year's high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.

Four Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

A look at the natural beauty and environmental crisis surrounding the Great Lakes.

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.

WIEBO'S WAR tells the story of a Christian community, at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is a suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his farm. The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged 10 years ago: barricading roads, blowing up wells, culminating in the unsolved death of a teen aged girl. The Ludwigs live according to their religious values. They are self-sufficient in food and energy, but isolated, with seven unmarried adult children, and 38 grandchildren. They believe that those who don't share their beliefs, like filmmaker David York, are living in terrible darkness.

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.

A winter portrait of North Dakota's oil boom as seen through unexpected eyes.