Pollution Movies

In 1976, a nuclear reactor near the Italian town of Seveso explodes, leaking highly poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere.

Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that...

With dreams of colonising Mars and beyond, billionaires such as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos are fuelling a boom in the space industry. But many criticise...

After using a mysterious hole to dispose of all his trash, a man faces unexpected consequences.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

Plastic Peril explores the devastating impact of plastic waste on the waterways and drainage systems of Lagos, Nigeria. This thought-provoking...

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

There are ticking time bombs off the coasts of the world, of which the public has hardly been aware: 6,300 wrecks, sunk during the Second World War,...

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products,...

A compilation of conferences/debates between renowned designers, environmental activists, and students on the concept of design. Held in Aspen,...

For five days in December 1952, a thick smog suffocated the British capital causing the death of thousands of Londoners. The health catastrophe lead...

A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka

Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without...

"Origins" takes a journey through the biological roots of where we have come from and where we have gone. Using fire as a metaphor for technology,...

PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security...

When their forest home is burnt down to make way for a palm oil plantation, Scor, a walking tree, must go on a long journey to find a home for...

More than two decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic...

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with...

Ice has always moved. When glaciation took hold some 34 million years ago, interconnected rivers of ice combined to produce the Earth's vast ice...