Movie Library

There are thousands of short and feature length films out there to help you spread the word about transition and the Going Greener campaign. We’ve collated a few of our favourites, but please let us know of any good films you come across. Email us your suggestions and we’ll build up a Movie Library to share with the P&P network.

Also, check out this page for details on how to get hold of these films and organise a good screening

Dirty Oil

Dirty Oil is a ground-breaking documentary that explores the battle between industry, government, local communities and environmentalists over the development of the tar sands in Canada. If fully exploited, the tar sands alone would take the planet to the brink of runaway climate change. This film shows the damage companies are causing in Canada and what we can do about it.

H2OIL

A feature length film about Canada’s Athabasca tarsands. The most polluting source of oil on the planet. This film is an insight into how tarsands extraction is destroying lives, communities and the environment.

The Age of Stupid

This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance? trailer

Food, Inc.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on industrial food manufacture, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the average consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. It shows how a nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Enough to make anyone who sees it think twice about the next meal they eat!

Pig Buisness

This is an exposé of the pig meat industry in the US, Poland and the UK. It reveals the hidden costs behind much of the meat on our supermarket shelves. Vast factory operations mistreat and overcrowd animals, poison local residents, destroy local farming communities, and spread contagious diseases like pig MRSA and swine flu which now threaten the entire human population. trailer

The Yes Men: Fix the World

The Yes Men: Fix the World is a screwball true story that follows two political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that point out how corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo uncover the culprits behind the cult of greed. But can they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses?

Our Home is Burning

Our Home is Burning aims to protect the environment through a new kind of audiovisual performance. A live show combining original music and VJing (live video mixing). The result is a mind blowing event, somewhere between a movie experience and a concert. trailer

The Coconut Revolution

This is the modern-day story of a native peoples’ remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won, despite a military occupation and blockade. This empowered the community to become self-sufficient, including the making of bio-diesel from coconut oil.

Crude

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. http://www.crudethemovie.com