Best Movies with an Environmental Theme/sub-Theme

Mankind has abandoned the Earth because it has become covered with trash.

With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.

What would happen if the climage change/global warming predictions all came to pass and happened in a matter of days?

An animated look at the end of the Ice Age and its consequences.

Delivers the message that people who care about other species, especially endangered ones, should act to prevent their destruction.

About a union activist that dies under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.

A true drama about bringing to justice a large electric utility that poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with toxic chromium causing disease and death among many locals.

A movie about poverty, social activitism and the world of big pharmacuetical companies.

The quest to save an endangered species (Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas)

A thriller of corruption and power related to the oil industry.

A documentary instead of movie but should be mentioned. Al Gore leads us through the prospect of Climate Change.

What would happen if you tried to mix ecosystems by cloning dinosaurs and put them into the modern world.

The magical inhabitants of a rainforest called FernGully fight to save their home that is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus

Thriller about the discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant.

What will the President do about climate change?

Film about a class-action case involving toxic agrichemicals.

Changes in the natives as "progress" comes to South America

An invasive species (human) attempts to drive out the native sentient species to harvest a rare ore.

Reminds us that urgent warnings are needed in order to focus on problems that have the potential to kill the planet.

Oil company exploring in the Alaskan wilderness causes the release of "demons" due to global warming thawing permafrost.

For kids and other people. Themes of food greed and unintended consequences when we have no restraint on what we eat or where it comes from.

Shows a world where genetic engineering of humans is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class. What does it mean to be human?

The efforts of an unwilling attorney to bring an industrial polluter to justice.

Shows the struggle of cultural tradition to survive in modern times

Quest to save an Orca whale name Keiko

Quest to save the local zoo