Environmentalism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant environmentalism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, cult film and touching films and TV shows about / with environmentalism, danger, small town, society, catastrophe, environmental issue, forest, escapades, nature and animal life plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
environmentalism
TOP 10 movies tagged as environmentalism: Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Big Miracle (2012), Bless the Beasts & Children (1971), First Reformed (2017), Fire Down Below (1997), The East (2013), Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005), Hoot (2006), The Shooter (2013), Encouragement of Climb (2013).
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List of environmentalism movies
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style:
sincere, touching, inspirational, captivating, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
gorilla, jungle, animals, environmental, extinction, environmentalism, human spirit, nature, hunting, life & death, brutality, scientist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966
Place:
africa, congo, rwanda
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big Miracle’ is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
animals, animal rescue, rescue, journalism, media, ocean, whale, volunteer, environmentalism, ecology, snowstorm, idealism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
alaska, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Six children at a summer camp embark on a mission to save a buffalo herd from slaughter.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
coming of age, summer camp, youth, rescue, teenage life, environmentalism, obsessive quest, friendship, road trip, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, killing an animal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
arizona, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
religion, church, priest, suicide, christianity, suspense, reverend, minister, environment, depression, journal, environmentalism ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, new york state
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, toxic, small town, environment, brutality, suspense, betrayal, investigation, environmentalism, good versus evil, snake, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kentucky, usa, appalachia, texas
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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, fighting the system, human spirit, heroic mission, society, politics, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
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51K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political, tricky, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, suspense, spy, anarchist, environmentalism, espionage, fbi, revenge, radical, undercover, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, captivating, sincere
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
environmentalism, young heroes, rescue, wilderness, family life, escapades, treasure hunt, heroes, legends and myths, river, father son relationship, oil company ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
teenager, school, adaptation, fish out of water, justice, environmentalism, bully, save the day, owl, misfit, vandalism, animals ...
Place:
florida, montana, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
sniper, politics, journalism, state affairs, environmentalism, media, society, reporter, suspense, ecology, apache
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, greenland
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story:
Aoi prefers indoor hobbies and is afraid of heights, but her childhood friend Hinata loves to show off her passion for mountain climbing. As young children they once watched the sunrise from the top of a mountain, and now they've decided to ...
Style:
anime, seinen, educational, light, captivating ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, high school, environmentalism, friendship, high school life, teamwork, sport, slice of life, grownups, coming of age, climbing, childhood friend ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The battle between loggers and environmentalists is defining, dividing and destroying communities in Canada and around the world. The Green Chain is a powerful, funny and thought-provoking film about the people who love trees.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
forest, environmentalism, society, battles, family relations, family business, environmental activism, canadian, deforestation, environmental issue, small town, protest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
raccoon, animals, real estate, environmentalism, family relations, nothing goes right, vengeance, family problems, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, bear, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style:
melancholic, talky, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, depression, justice, conspiracy, revolution, mental illness, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse, environmentalism ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, chicago illinois, woodstock, pentagon ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story:
Jungle Junction is a current CGI animated children's television series created by Trevor Ricketts. It airs on Disney Junior in the United States and in the Netherlands, as well as Playhouse Disney in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Portugal, ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
jungle, environmentalism, friends, friendship, animal life, disney, youth, rivalry, travel, escapades, jungle adventure, bull ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot:
cancer, heroic mission, human spirit, fighting the system, environmentalism, terminal illness, hopes, obsessive quest, society, social relations, small town, church ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, uplifting, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
adventurer, environmentalism, extinction, human spirit, panda, conservation, dealing with death, heroes, hopes, escapades, dangerous animal, estate ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, new york
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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:
suspenseful, intense, meditative, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
suspense, terrorism, dam, crime gone awry, character study, environmental issue, rebellion, radical, environmentalism, bomb, gang, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, gain trust, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, coming of age, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The movie centers on a group of animals in a national park in Bombay trying to figure out a way to stop humans from building an apartment complex on their land.
Style:
humorous, thought provoking, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, environmentalism, save the day, against the odds, on the road, escapades, fish out of water, jungle, hopes, communication problem, environmental health, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature feature, monster, toxic, contamination, bear, environmentalism, mutant, rivalry, experiment gone awry, animal life, pregnancy, giant monster ...
Time:
70s
Place:
maine, usa
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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:
feel good, scenic, atmospheric, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
environmental activist, adoption, dog, twins, sister sister relationship, tourist, climate change, environmentalism, strong female character, sabotage, women, ecology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, ukraine, reykjavik iceland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
end of the world, ufo, alien, alien contact, alien encounter, evil alien, giant robots, disaster, alien invasion, robot, apocalypse, first contact ...
Time:
future, 1920s, 21st century
Place:
usa, egypt, antarctica, washington d.c., virginia ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in 2045, Vic, an ex-ultimate fighter, is the owner of the only airstrip, hotel and bar in the high Arctic frontier town of Borealis. He does his best to keep the peace amongst a vast array of clashing characters in this lawless international ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, future dystopia, life is a bitch, escapades, society, murder, environmentalism, small town life, small town, winter, distopia, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Animation, Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, USA, India
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Based on the original animated series Ben 10. Ben becomes targeted by an evil Mechamorph Warrior, named "Retaliator," who mistakenly blames Ben for something he did not do and attempts to destroy all aliens.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating
Plot:
superhero, heroes, heroic mission, school, save the world, mad scientist, good versus evil, parents and children, chase, disorder, alien encounter, androids and robots ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, egypt, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, mind bending, rough, scary ...
Plot:
investigation, bio weapon, ufo, scientist, military, sheriff, blackmail, small town, heroic mission, experiment gone awry, environmentalism, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, wyoming, colorado
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
environmentalism, chaos, life is a bitch, workplace, dishonesty, human nature, state affairs, society, political corruption, workplace situations, disaster, businessman ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Five people trapped in a factory where two hostages and three are kidnappers but they them self do not know who are kidnappers and hostages.As they all are suffering from temporary memory loss.
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, disorder, environmentalism, confined, factory, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, undercover, memory loss, working undercover, fugitives, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, talky, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bookstore, rescue, couples, environmentalism, against the rules, ocean, fighting the system, friendship, writer's block, water, turtle, boarder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, new jersey, london, europe, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, campy, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
worm, deadly creature, small town, investigation, disaster, survival, rescue, environmentalism, battles, skeleton, thunderstorm, killer animal ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
georgia, southern usa
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