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Showing 1 - 10 of 29 titles with a criteria of Subject is Rivers and Lakes


Before the Flood I

Part I. The residents of the ancient Chinese cities of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes -- along with millions of other residents -- to make way for the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 2005 | 147 minutes

Before the Flood II

Part II. Yan Yu follows up his first film with Before the Flood II, a profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished and flooded during the construction of Three Gorges dams and reservoir. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 2008 | 60 minutes

Crapshoot

Looks at the failure of our current sewage disposal system and presents alternatives.

Bullfrog Films | 2004 | 52 minutes

Dam/Age

Traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 50 minutes

Dammed to Extinction

For the last 40 years, renowned whale scientist Ken Balcomb has closely observed a one-of-a-kind population of killer whales that hunt chinook salmon along the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 60 minutes

Dams, Drugs and Democracy

This compelling documentary places Myanmar's Myitsone Dam in the context of the Kachin insurgency which has ravaged the country for more than five decades in the struggle for control the region’s rich resources. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 2015 | 62 minutes

Estuary

A close-up look at wetlands ecology.

Bullfrog Films | 1981 | 12 minutes

A Fierce Green Fire

The documentary of record on the environmental movement.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 101 minutes

A Fierce Green Fire

* New title added January 2023 *

An exploration of the environmental movement, including grassroots and global activism, spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change.

Face to Face Media | 2012 | 101 minutes

Fight for Areng Valley + Lost World

In the Areng valley in southwest Cambodia  members  of the Chong community, supported by Buddhist monks, oppose the construction of a dam that would flood their forest homeland. In Lost World sand mining on Cambodia's west coast undermines the mangrove forests ecosystem that supports a local fishery and a communal way of life. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 2018 | 25 minutes