A critical look at the world, at what man is doing to Planet Earth. A way to discover the background that we do not even imagine. There are many films and documentaries that have put the environmental issues that are important to us under the magnifying glass, from climate change to nuclear power, from killing animals to junk food
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A critical look at the world, at what man is doing to Planet Earth. A way to discover the background that we do not even imagine. There are many film and documentaries who have put under the magnifying glass the environmental issues that are important to us, from climate change to nuclear power, from the killing of animals to junk food.
The cross-section of a reality that we can only imagine but that it is right to know. Some far-sighted directors and environmental associations have thought of offering us this possibility, putting before our eyes truths that we also struggle to accept, or that perhaps we ignore but which could change our point of view on what surrounds us.
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Here are the films and documentaries to see at least once in a lifetime
Index
The Cove - documentary
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, the documentary chronicles the sad annual dolphin hunt in Japan's Taiji National Park. The film was secretly recorded in Taiji for five years and shows the techniques used to capture and kill dolphins. But not only. It also speaks of the high rate of mercury present in their meat, which then ends up on the tables of the inhabitants of Taiji.
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In 2010 the film won the Oscar for best documentary. But Japan has censored it. It is not difficult to imagine why.
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Gasland - documentary
Directed by Josh Fox, it chronicles the dark world of fracking and shale gas and the impact on rural communities in the United States. Fox's eyes, and then his camera, settled on the people and animals that have suffered the consequences of this dangerous technique that the US likes so much.
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In particular, he denounced the release into the ground and into the air of chemicals that are sometimes unknown even to insiders. Poisons that reach groundwater and rivers.
Before The Flood - Point of no return - documentary
For years engaged in the fight against climate change, Leonardo DiCaprio has also addressed the issue with his documentary in which the Planet Earth is described as a frigid and small boat that risks sinking reaching a point of no return.
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Ice and the Sky – documentary
Once again they are the climate changes the protagonists. The protagonist Claude Lorius decides to embark on a scientific expedition to the Antarctic. During his travels he will learn about ice, a material that preserves the traces of its history. He thus discovers the effects that human activities have on Earth.
A Safe Place - Movies
Released in 2015 and directed by Francesco Ghiaccio, the film tells the sad story linked to the name of Casale Monferrato, to asbestos, to the deaths due to mesothelium and to the relationship between fathers and children. A story in which justice is asked for the many, too many victims caused by eternity.
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The runner – film
We are in the USA. Here, following the disaster caused by the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an idealistic politician finds himself dealing with his own life following a sex scandal.
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A fragile world - film
Directed by César Augusto Acevedo, the film tells the story of Alfonso, an old farmer who returns to his family after many years to look after his seriously ill son. But the reality is different from what he remembered it, an apocalyptic scenario made up of sugar cane plantations and an incessant rain of ash, caused by the continuous fires for the exploitation of the plantations. What to do? Run away from that horror or stay?
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The Chernobyl Plot (The Russian Woodpecker) - documentary
The documentary-thriller came out 30 years after the nuclear accident that hit Chernobyl. Directed by Chad Gracia tells the testimonies and assumptions of the Ukrainian poet and painter Fedor Alexandrovich that the disaster may not have been an accident. But it will be difficult to know the truth as the Chernobyl archives will never be disclosed, leaving so many questions unanswered.
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Something extraordinary - film
Directed by Ken Kwapis, the film is the cinematrographic transposition of Tom Rose's book Freeing the Whales and tells of an international operation to rescue three gray whales trapped in an ice hole in Point Barrow, in the Arctic Circle, Alaska.
To discover them is the television reporter-activist Adam Carlson. The news sparked international outcry and set in motion efforts to free the whales. Among the protagonists is a Greenpeace environmentalist, Cindy Lowry, played by Drew Barrymore.
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Tomorrow - documentary
The documentary film “Domani” starts from the assumption that we can live without oil, in a decarbonised economy. A beautiful world where waste is an asset, not a problem. Directors Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent have shown that it is indeed possible and that it already happens in some areas of the world. And they did it by showing the most successful examples in five sectors: agriculture, energy, urban planning, economics, democracy and education.
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Captain Fantastic – film
Directed by Matt Ross, the film tells the story of Viggo Mortensen, an out-of-the-box father who lived in isolation with his family for 10 years, away from consumerism. The death of his wife forces him and his children to confront the unknown world of so-called normality.
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The fifth season - film
What if spring does not come and if the cycle of nature is upset leaving man at the mercy of his most primitive fears? In this film, Nature rebels against man and stops taking care of him, no longer bears fruit, bees die, cows don't give milk.
Man ends up definitively losing his humanity. Disturbing, frighteningly realistic.
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Best Before - documentary
Made by Joe Palmer, a short film dedicated to the creators of The Bristol Skipchen, the campaign aimed at the abolition of food waste. A group of boys from Bristol runs a pop-up café for 8 months, serving 20 meals made with surplus food, recovered from local supermarkets, farmers and shops. A peaceful protest arises.
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Best Before: A Documentary About Skipchen from Joe Palmer on Vimeo.
Cowspiracy, documentary
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a documentary directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn that investigates the policies of environmental organizations on livestock farming. Organizations involved in the documentary include Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation and Rainforest Action Network. The making of the documentary took place thanks to a crowdfunding campaign launched on Indiegogo. Recently, Leonardo DI Caprio became the executive producer to help spread the documentary.
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Food Relovution - documentary
Our eating habits can truly change the world. This is what this documentary aims to demonstrate, which explores the impact of meat consumption and intensive farming on both health and the environment. But not only. It highlights the repercussions of the "meat culture" on the problem of hunger and on animal welfare.
Documentary trailer "Food ReLOVution" by Thomas Torelli from Bluma Lab on Vimeo.
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