Environmental activist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant environmental activist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with environmental activist, ecology, environmentalism, environmentalist, environmental activism, environmental, environmental issue, activist, nature and environment plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as environmental activist: Woman at War (2018), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022), Burn Up (2008), The Odyssey (2016), Blueback (2022), Aruanas (2019), Uriyadi 2 (2019), Chad and JT Go Deep (2022), Iggy Arbuckle (2007), A Thin Line (2023).

List of environmental activist movies

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 7.4
 11K
Woman at War (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, France, Ukraine
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A middle aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her town. She resorts to sabotage and is willing to risk everything for nature and these virgin highlands… until a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
Style: scenic, feel good, humorous, visually appealing, sincere ...
Plot: environmental activist, adoption, climate change, dog, twins, tourist, sister sister relationship, environmentalism, sabotage, strong female character, feminist, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, ukraine, sarajevo, reykjavik iceland
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: environmental activist, environmental issue, criminal conspiracy, environmentalist, terrorism, activism, felony, environmental, conspiracy, ecology, terrorist plot, terrorist attack ...
Place: texas, long beach california, north dakota, portland oregon
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Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 142 min.
Story: 1984: Searching for an experience that goes deeper than the superficiality of modern civilization, Bruno Manser travels into the jungles of Borneo and finds it with the nomadic Penan tribe. It is an encounter that changes his life forever. When the ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, sincere, political
Plot: rain forest, jungle warfare, jungle, environmental activist, tribe, environment, deforestation, courage, environmental issue, environmental activism, man versus nature, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1987, year 1984, year 1999, year 1991, year 1988
Place: germany, switzerland, borneo, munich germany
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 6.7
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Burn Up (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
TV show
Story: An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: climate change, global warming, environment, environmental activist, evil corporation, oil, greed, lobbyist, ecology, conflict of interest, corporate greed, conflict ...
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 6.6
 6K
The Odyssey (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker
Style: factual, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: explorer, sea, biopic, ocean, environmental, diver, love, ship, airplane accident, ecology, fish, diving ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1972, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: paris france, france, new york, antarctica
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 5.9
 1K
Blueback (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: animal, sea, human animal relationship, fish, diving, environmental activist, friends, activist, friendship, poaching, animal human communication, sorority girl ...
Place: atlantic ocean
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 6.9
 265
Aruanas (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: activism, environmental activism, deforestation, amazon, journalism, private investigation, environmental issue, environmentalism, environmental activist, environmental destruction, environmentalist, teamwork ...
Place: brazil
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 7.0
 976
Uriyadi 2 (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young man struggles for justice for the victims who are affected by the chemical plant leakage which lead to many deaths in the village.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, political
Plot: fight for justice, factory, job, environmental activist, workplace, workplace situations, evil corporation, ecology, environmental, environmentalist, corporate greed, corporation ...
Place: india
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Chad and JT Go Deep (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Best bros Chad and JT set out to spread positivity through community activism and chill vibes in this raucous prank comedy series.
Style: buddy comedy, feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: culture, life, social problems, social issues, satire, social satire, environmental activist, activist
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 4.9
 273
Iggy Arbuckle (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Iggy Arbuckle is a Canadian animated series that premiered in Canada on Teletoon in June 2007. Based on a comic strip from National Geographic Kids, the show is created by Guy Vasilovich, and focuses about a pig who happens to be a forest ranger, ...
Style: funny, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: wild animal, fantasy world, dream world, team, friends, friendship, dead animal, adventure hero, animal, talking animal, environmental activist, ranger ...
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 5.1
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A Thin Line (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Ana and Benni, two sisters in a quest to expose environmental wrongdoing, but when things go bad after hacking a government server, a question arises: What line are you willing to cross for something you believe in?
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: environmental, sister sister relationship, environmentalist, sisters, environmental activist, sister, sorority girl, ecology, prison, women in prison, activist, activism
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 5.9
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The Trick (2021)
Genre: Biography, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time ...
Style: captivating, tense, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: climate change, cybercrime, media frenzy, environmental activism, environmental destruction, society, environmental issue, environmentalism, environmental activist, ecology, environmental health, problem ...
Time: year 2009
Place: copenhagen, london
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 6.1
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The Commons (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a gripping vision of the near future, THE COMMONS is an absorbing character-driven relationship drama and a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: climate change, pandemic, motherhood, parenthood, ecology, environmental, wanting a baby, distopia, mother love, mother child relationship, environmental activist, society ...
Time: near future
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 6.0
 239
Tarung Sarung (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Wealthy and spoiled, a young man finds something to fight for when he falls in love with an environmental activist protesting his family's business.
Style: disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating
Plot: fight, martial arts, money, wealthy family, self discovery, environmentalist, faith, relationship problems, belief in god, tragic love, environmental activist, rich man ...
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Japan Sinks: People of Hope (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama gathers young and talented ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, anime
Plot: disaster, media manipulation, corruption, secret, political corruption, investigative reporter, corrupt official, investigative journalism, environmental activist, ecological disaster, political conspiracy, corrupt politician ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, tokyo
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Love on a Limb (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Aimie Roarke is always up for a cause and when the town’s beloved Oak tree is set to be cut down, she takes it upon herself try and save it. When the Mayor hires a handsome new landscaper to cut it down, she decides the only way to save the tree ...
Style: light, captivating, funny, romantic, entertaining
Plot: love and romance, love affair, relationships, love story, male female relationship, romantic relationship, activist, environmental activist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, environmental activism, small town, cutting down a tree ...
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 6.9
 4K
Central Park (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: An animated musical comedy about the Tillermans, a family that lives in a castle in Central Park. Owen, the park manager, and Paige, his journalist wife, raise their kids Molly and Cole in the world’s most famous park, while fending off a hotel ...
Style: adult animation, entertaining, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family life, lifestyle, eccentric family, environmental activist, family relations, humour, kids and family, parents and children, salvation, showdown, activist, urbanization ...
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 6.1
 17K
Night Moves (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, meditative, intense ...
Plot: environmental issue, terrorism, dam, rebellion, crime gone awry, character study, environmentalism, radical, bomb, gang, society, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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 6.4
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Tellus (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: terrorist group, environmental activism, double life, police investigation, police detective, secret, police, love, father daughter relationship, manslaughter, fall in love, police officer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Don Wallace arrives at Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school in the English countryside where the children of the wealthiest are groomed to dominate society. But the monolithic rules of the British upper class change when greed and recklessness ...
Style: horror comedy, funny, slasher, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boarding school, teenage boy, teenager, creature, monster, survival, friendship, teacher, death, boy, english countryside, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.3
 1K
Thin Ice (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Iceland, France
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series takes place in Greenland and revolves around a climate meeting for the Arctic Council, which is in the process of agreeing on a new and historic climate agreement that prohibits all environmentally harmful oil drilling in the area. Lena ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: arctic, police detective, police, politician, hostage, kidnapping, oil, climate change, female police detective, conspiracy, parent child relationship, oil company ...
Time: 2010s
Place: greenland, russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Love blossoms between Evan and Kim in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California, but so does a flock of displaced sea eagles, who go on a rampage.
Style: independent film, natural horror
Plot: eagle, shark, bird attack, forest, respect, ecological disaster, predicting the future, bus, killer animal, beach, dating, animal ...
Place: california
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 2.8
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Parasite (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough ...
Style: bleak, scary, serious, rough, experimental
Plot: oil rig, survival, danger, creature feature, obsession, supernatural, plague, ocean, environmentalism, isolation, bio weapon, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Something Beneath (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot: priest, environmentalism, clergy, deadly creature, survival, supernatural, danger, society, supernatural ability, killer animal, monster, creature feature ...
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 6.7
 41K
The Hunter (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, hunter, little boy, greed, manipulation, danger, obsessive quest, bio weapon, beautiful scenery, isolation, nature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tasmania, oceania, australia, paris france
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Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: suburbs, society, life is a bitch, danger, criminal's revenge, fighting the system, rebellion, impossible love, school, family in crisis, suburban life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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 6.6
 40K
Promised Land (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Style: inspirational, melancholic, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: propaganda, campaign, environmental, business, character study, environmentalism, cheerleader, corporate crime, corporate world, social relations, small town, social commentary ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage boy fights to save the Spirit Bear.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, nature, environmentalism, bear, wilderness, human spirit, fighting the system, heroic mission, campaign, society, obsessive quest, politics ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.5
 2K
Fubar II (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Terry and Dean head north to make sweet cash in the oil patch.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, witty, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: friendship, profanity, eviction, friends, buddies, workplace, misfit, partner, silly humor, heavy metal, workplace situations, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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