Planet Earth II
Attenborough series BBC

Fuel
BioDiesel v fossil fuels

An Inconvenient Sequel
Climate Change Al Gore

Chasing Ice
Climate change and the cryosphere

Before the Flood
Climate Change: Leonardo diCaprio

Everything's Cool
Climate change and green politics

Six Degrees
Climate Change Nat’l Geo

His Epic Message Will Make You Want to Save the World | Short Film Showcase​
Climate Change Nat'l Geo

Did You Know the State of Sea Level Rise 2019?
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise 
YouTube, 30 minutes

PBS Essential Environment, 
4 episodes, YouTube

Fierce Green Fire
Environmental defense

Evolution - What Darwin Never Knew - NOVA ​
Evolution

Food, Inc.
Food and Agribusiness

"Sustainable" Hourglass Films: A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America’s food system Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, VHX
​Food and Agribusiness

The Need to Grow
Food, Agriculture, Soil and Climate Change

Rotten (Netflix series)
Food and Globalism

Dive! Living Off America’s Waste
Food waste

SEED: the Untold Story
Food and Agriculture

Wasted
Food Waste

Forks Over Knives
Food: Veganism​

Dirt
Food, Agriculture and soil

The Need to Grow
Food, Agriculture, Soil and Climate Change

Gasland I and Gasland II
Fracking

Wasteland
Garbage dumps

World in Balance: the People Paradox
Human population

​My Toxic Baby
Industrial toxins in fetus

The End of the Line
Marine fisheries

Seaspiracy 
Marine fisheries (Netflix, 3/24/21)
(Vimeo trailer here)
"What does Seaspiracy get Wrong -  Counterpunch"
"Seaspiracy professor demands COP26 bosses don't let fishing industry off the hook"

Cowspiracy
Meat eating and Climate

The End of Suburbia
Oil, peak oil

Birds of Paradise Project, Cornell University
​tropical biodiversity

Plastic
Plastic in the Oceans

Midway, a plastic island​
Plastic in the Oceans
(a short film)

Planet of the Humans (Michael Moore film)
Why this is a bad film: Josh Fox, (and here), Bill McKibben, Zac & Jesse Debunk, Let's Have a Think, Tom Athanasiou, George Monbiot (best rebuttal yet)
Renewable Energy

The True Cost
Sweatshop labor​

Chasing Coral
Tropical coral reef destruction

Last Call at the Oasis
Water

Tapped
Water (bottled)

Water & Power: a California Heist
Water California

Blue Gold
Water privatization

5 Must-Watch Documentaries About Climate Change and Sustainability

PBS Newshour 5/19/19 Parent Students at LA Valley College. 
10 minutes about how Valley offers parent students services. 

Mont Saint Michel massive structure
YouTube vid on major structures. 

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