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1. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Votes: 497,286 | Gross: $659.68M
2. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,389,592 | Gross: $760.51M
3. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont
Votes: 183,151 | Gross: $61.43M
4. 9 (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 79 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.
Director: Shane Acker | Stars: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 148,035 | Gross: $31.74M
5. Wizards (1977)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval
Votes: 13,062 | Gross: $9.00M
6. Daydream Nation (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
Director: Michael Goldbach | Stars: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas
Votes: 13,061
7. 500 MPH Storm (2013)
TV-PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe America off the map.
Director: Daniel Lusko | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Michael Beach, Sarah Lieving, Bryan Head
Votes: 2,377
8. Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor John Shepherd and his graduate students believes that recent ... See full summary »
Director: Ian Gilmore | Stars: Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, David O'Donnell, George R. Sheffey
Votes: 986
9. The Age of Stupid (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History, News
A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
Director: Franny Armstrong | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Alvin DuVernay, Layefa Malini
Votes: 4,708
10. The Fire Next Time (1993)
Not Rated | 195 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
2017: The greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts, floods, and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad, one family struggles to survive against all odds...
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Farnsworth, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 305
11. The Possibility of Hope (2007 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short
A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Fabrizio Eva, John Gray, Naomi Klein, James Lovelock
Votes: 735
12. Sink Hole (2013)
90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of teenagers get trapped in a sink hole and have to fight for their lives.
Director: Scott Wheeler | Stars: Gina Holden, Brooke Mackenzie, Dominika Juillet, Jeremy London
Votes: 443
13. Seasons (2015)
PG | 96 min | Documentary, History
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to the lush green forests, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature.
Directors: Jacques Perrin, Alexandre Poulichot, Jacques Cluzaud | Stars: Mickaël Jachimiak-Duffner, Eyleen Schots
Votes: 1,780 | Gross: $0.12M
14. The Big Fix (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
A documentary that examines the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Directors: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell | Stars: Peter Fonda, Amy Smart, Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Votes: 422
15. Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015)
84 min | Documentary, News
A powerful documentary - shot from March 11th, 2011 through March 2015 - that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
Director: Matteo Gagliardi | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Massimo Dapporto, Hal Yamanouchi
Votes: 413
16. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1992– )
PG-13 | Documentary
The globe-spanning story of the oil industry from the first strikes of the 19th century through the Gulf War. The industry's colorful characters and oil's key role in 20th century history are brought to life by participants and historians.
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Daniel Yergin, Norman Cooley, Stephanie Cran
Votes: 166
17. Man (2012 Video)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
500,000 years ago, the modern man appears. He treats the animals and nature as a consumer, with frivolity and cruelty, and pridefully turns the world into a dumpster. However, someone is watching.
Director: Steve Cutts
Votes: 1,159
18. Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Director: Paul Seed | Stars: John Heard, Bob Gunton, Mark Metcalf, Bruce Gray
Votes: 288
19. Crude (2009)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Dan Ashley, Pablo Fajardo, Kent Robertson, German Yanez
Votes: 869 | Gross: $0.17M
20. Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez (2008)
99 min | Documentary
In the early hours of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker runs aground in Alaska. It discharges millions of gallons of crude oil. The incident becomes the biggest environmental... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cornellier
Votes: 35
21. The Sky's on Fire (1999 TV Movie)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The ozone is depleted and as a result of this all sorts things are happening like lethal insects flying around. A scientist tries to warn everybody about this but no one seems to believe ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Lerner | Stars: John Corbett, Josie Bissett, Bradley Whitford, Ben Browder
Votes: 422
22. The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
PG | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.
Directors: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope | Stars: Edward Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley, Igor Paramonov
Votes: 233
23. Road (2005)
92 min | Drama, Mystery
Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check up on toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canadian ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie McCleave | Stars: Catherine Kellner, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, James Urbaniak, Peter Appel
Votes: 77
24. Chrysalis (2008)
PG-13 | 88 min | Sci-Fi
As our world suffers the ravages of humankind, scientists look for ways to sustain life. When one of them falls ill and a chrysalis forms around him, a tug of war ensues about the future of the stricken scientist.
Director: Tony Baez Milan | Stars: John Klemantaski, Darren Kendrick, Glen Vaughan, Corey Landis
Votes: 328
25. Smog (1973 TV Movie)
86 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Marie-Luise Marjan, Wolfgang Grönebaum, Heinz Schacht, Michaela Henner
Votes: 227
26. The Gunslinger Grifter Logan (2022)
90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A world once kept peaceful and beautiful by the benevolent forces of Magic, now lies in ruins with but one exception: The Federation. This totalitarian State run by a ruthless Overlord, is ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Rubac | Stars: Steve Polites, Vincent Alcarese, Frank Bliss, Michael Brecher
Votes: 22
27. Aluna (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure
The leaders of of an ancient hidden civilization in South America want to show mankind how to avoid destroying the planet. They travel with an aging British film-maker and four hundred kilometres of gold thread to trace invisible connections in nature.
Director: Alan Ereira | Stars: Mama Manuel Coronado, Alan Ereira, Francisca Zarabata, Mama Shibulata Zarabata
Votes: 172
28. Climate Hustle (2017)
78 min | Documentary
Climate Hustle reveals the history of climate scares, examines the science on both sides of the debate, digs into the politics and media hype surrounding the issue, shows how global warming... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Rogers | Stars: Marc Morano, Claude Allègre, Sallie Baliunas, Calvin Beisner
Votes: 206
29. The 3rd Letter (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a world where people rely on implanted technology to survive the extreme pollution, a man finds himself incapable of paying for the renewal of his life-supporting batteries.
Director: Grzegorz Jonkajtys | Stars: Rodrigo Lopresti, Dulcie Anne Rosales, Can Tuncer
Votes: 191
30. Oil & Water (I) (2014)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, News
'Oil & Water' is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world's worst toxic disasters: the contamination of Ecuador's Amazon region by reckless oil drilling. Hugo ... See full summary »
Directors: Laurel Spellman Smith, Laurel Spellman Smith, Francine Strickwerda
Votes: 43
31. Toxic Soup (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Action
Something is bad wrong as everyday Americans fight to protect their air, water and blood from pollution.
Director: Rory Owen Delaney | Stars: Don Blankenship, Larry Brown, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Votes: 35
32. Crude Independence (2009)
Not Rated | 71 min | Documentary
Crude Independence is a documentary film about the heartland in the process of transplanting itself, and the new heart is pumping oil. In 2006, the United States Geological Survey estimated... See full summary »
Director: Noah Hutton
Votes: 47
33. Beyond Pollution (2012)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History
Watching his hometown and its surrounding areas being desecrated by BP's massive oil spill, director Barker White was compelled to uncover the truth. Traveling thousands of miles across the... See full summary »
Director: Barker White | Stars: Dean Blanchard, Dean Cain, Billy Nungesser, Riki Ott
Votes: 24
34. Kivalina vs. Exxon (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
Kivalina, a tiny village in Northwest Alaska struggles to survive and save their village from the consequences of global warning, in an epic battle against the world's biggest polluters - the oil and gas corporations.
Director: Ben Addelman
Votes: 16
35. Fall and Winter (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, History
A journey, reaching to the past to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions we now face. Over two years, director Matt Anderson traveled 16,000 miles to document... See full summary »
Director: Matt Anderson | Stars: Dean Blanchard, Grace Lee Boggs, Kevin Curole, Margaret Curole
Votes: 38
36. The Refugees of the Blue Planet (2006)
88 min | Documentary
For around ten years, natural disasters have been occurring more frequently, causing widespread destruction; yet industrialized countries still refuse to implement or persist in doubting ... See full summary »
Directors: Hélène Choquette, Jean-Philippe Duval | Star: Pascale Montpetit
Votes: 41
37. Lucia (1992)
90 min | Drama
Director: Mel Chionglo | Stars: Gina Alajar, Elvira Baldomero, Suzette Ranillo, Lolita Rodriguez
Votes: 16
39. It's Too Late (2009)
7 min | Short, Drama
The year is 2062. Global warming has brought an ice age. Groups of activists from the international organization HSOS are looking for traces of living organisms in the ice, with the aim of reviving biodiversity.
Director: Dimitris Kalogirou
40. Ciclovida: Lifecycle (2010)
76 min | Documentary, Adventure
A group of landless farmers and musicians from northeast Brazil, traverse the entire South American continent by bike in search of natural seeds and expose the devastating effects of ... See full summary »
Directors: Matt Feinstein, Ivania Cavalcante de Alencar, Inacio Do Nascimento, Loren Feinstein | Stars: Ivania Cavalcante de Alencar, Inacio Do Nascimento, Rainbow Underhill
Votes: 8
41. Second Wind (2012 Video)
7 min | Short, Sci-Fi
The Earth is uninhabited any more. There is no air to breathe. No water, no vegetation. But from time to time among waste and barren soils there appears strange metal flowers - as if it is ones desperate effort to revive the dead nature.
Director: Sergey Tsyss | Star: Artyom Parhomenko
Votes: 26
42. L'ultimo seme (2011)
7 min | Short, Action, Drama
In the near future, the Earth is toxically contaminated, and nothing can grow on its surface. A young scientist receives a package from an unknown sender containing an extremely rare resource - fertile soil.
Director: Antonio D'Aquila | Stars: Sabrina Crocco, Claudio Emiliani, Michele Giampaolo, Filippo Lilli
43. Happy Days (2012)
8 min | Short, Drama
A post-apocalyptic tale of a brother and sister who at the most desperate moment of their lives meet a mysterious man that will change their life.
Director: Shant Dolbakian | Stars: Andrew Rotilio, Adrian Jaworski, Alexandra Morgan
Votes: 12
44. We Want a Future (2011)
5 min | Short
WWF's visionary sci-fi asks: What kind of future do we want?
Director: Massimiliano D'Epiro
45. The Consequence of Oil (2012)
49 min | Documentary
Directors: Reuben Aaronson, Mark Manning | Stars: Kendra Aaronson, Dean Blanchard, Michelle Chauncey, Christopher Cone
46. The Consequence of Oil (2010 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
A hard hitting investigative look at the consequences of the BP oil disaster to the environment and people of the Gulf states.
Director: Mark Manning
47. Dream (II) (2010)
Short, Drama
Director: Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig | Stars: Narankhand.Ts, N. Yalalt
Votes: 11
48. World War III (1995 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
A study of the human population explosion and its impact on biodiversity and global ecosystems.
Director: Michael Tobias | Star: Michael Tobias
Votes: 10
49. Canopy (2011)
Short, Fantasy
In the not too far off future, the world has started to decay. Forests are dying, and the sap of a certain tree becomes very valuable. Conflict arises between those trying to protect the ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Chwirka | Stars: Chris Chavez, Kristen DeVore Rakes, Amy Baklini, Eriks Chase
50. The True Story of Chevron's Ecuador Disaster (2012)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Over the past three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron has dumped more than 68 billion liters of toxic wastewater into the forest, causing local residents to suffer ... See full summary »