Mentre lavora come impiegata in un piccolo studio legale, Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts), si imbatte in uno strano caso de acqua contaminata che sta provocando numerose vittime in una piccola comunità del deserto. Decide quindi di studiare più a fondo il problema...

Robert Bilott, avvocato ambientalista, porta il colosso della chimica DuPont in tribunale. Così facendo, denuncia decenni di inquinamento chimico ai danni dell'acqua potabile delle campagne.

Home è un documentario su ambiente e cambiamento climatico di Yann Arthus-Bertrand, prodotto da Luc Besson, diffuso contemporaneamente il 5 giugno 2009 nelle sale cinematografiche di 50 paesi, in concomitanza con la giornata mondiale dell'ambiente. Concepito come un reportage di viaggio, è realizzato quasi interamente con immagini aeree.

David Attenborough e lo scienziato Johan Rockström analizzano il collasso della biodiversità sulla Terra e in che modo questa crisi possa ancora essere evitata.

Un organismo alieno giunge sulla Terra portato da un meteorite. Questo organismo si alimenta con le sostanze degli scarichi industriali, e visto che il Giappone è ricco di industrie, rapidamente l'alieno, chiamato Hedorah, cresce e diventa una sorta di gigantesca ameba tossica che comincia a far strage di esseri umani mediante getti di acido capaci di corrodere una persona fino all'osso. Tra i primi ad accorgersi del pericolo c'è il dottor Yano, rimasto sfigurato da un incontro con la creatura durante un'immersione. Mentre Hedora acquista anche la capacità di volare (durante il volo rilascia gas tossici), gli umani invocano l'intervento di Godzilla. Ma neppure lui sembra essere in grado di battere Hedora...

Sta accadendo in tutta l'America-rurale: i proprietari terrieri sperano un giorno di ricevere un'offerta vantaggiosa da una società di energia che vogliono affittare la loro proprietà. Ragione? L'azienda spera di attingere a un serbatoio soprannominata "l'Arabia Saudita del gas naturale." Halliburton ha sviluppato un modo per ottenere il gas dalla terra-un processo di perforazione idraulica denominato "fracking", e improvvisamente l'America si trova sul precipizio di diventare una superpotenza energetica.

Questo documentario denuncia gli effetti letali dei rifiuti industriali al centro dello scontro tra le comunità minoritarie della Nuova Scozia e le autorità canadesi.

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band's land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.

In 2014, the authorities in Flint, Michigan chose to cut costs and change the city’s domestic water supply from the great Lakes to the Flint River. Soon tap water was running brown, people were falling ill and it was clear that something was seriously wrong. Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) has followed the situation over six years of denial, evasion, betrayal and hypocrisy in which the city’s poorest residents have suffered the most. The result is shocking and sad as it illuminates the inequalities of the modern world and celebrates the solidarity of ordinary people.

Something is bad wrong as everyday Americans fight to protect their air, water and blood from pollution.

Fall in love with our Avon and the people fighting to protect it, the Bristol way! Rave On For The Avon is a feature-length documentary film that follows campaigners and river lovers through six seasons: their highs and lows, love and loss.

Unraveling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical — now found in the blood of 99.7% of Americans — into the local drinking water supply.

This documentary explores a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments.

Biosludged reveals how the EPA is committing science fraud to allow the ongoing poisoning of our world with toxic sewage sludge that's being spread on food crops. Features former top government scientist and EPA whistleblower Dr. David Lewis.

Exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology, Terra Blight traces the life cycle of computers from creation to disposal and juxtaposes the disparate worlds that have computers as their center. From a 13-year-old Ghanaian who smashes obsolete monitors to salvage copper to a 3,000-person video game party in Texas, Terra Blight examines the unseen realities of one of the most ubiquitous toxic wastes on our planet.

Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has become one of the most precious natural resources of our planet.

In the sewers of Bergen, a microbiologist tries to uncover a contamination of the drinking water. THE SEPTICHEXEN POEM: Deep below the city's streets, The witch in darkness waits and eats, Her magic seeps into the water's flow, As she seeks an heir to follow. Beware the witch with magic dread, Her lair of filth, her cauldron red, For she seeks a child to train in her way, And make the water turn foul each day. So do not stray too far below, Or the witch will catch you, don't you know? For in her realm, she rules supreme, And the darkness there will never beam.

An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition.

PLASTICIZED is a film that places the viewer aboard a transatlantic expedition, as if one of the crew, revealing the unembellished evidence that the human footprint has reached every corner of the earth, even if we have not been there. Despite rumors of massive garbage islands, an immeasurable amount of plastic pollution of all sizes is floating throughout every major ocean in the world. With the numerous ghost nets of trash or larger windrows of rubbish dominating the the occasional headlines, tiny bits of plastic particulate from frail chunks is the overwhelming contaminant that is secretly infiltrating all levels of sea life like a cancer.