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The Greatest Misinformation Campaign in History

Big Oil has known for more than 50 years that fossil fuels pose a huge danger to the climate. They covered it up to keep raking in profits. It's one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.

16 min

Stop Being a Climate Change Doomer

Climate Change doesn't have to scare the Emojis out of you.

12 min

LAST CALL!

"Last Call!" is a cinematic examination of the question of who determines our future. The filmmakers Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli accompany climate activists, climate researchers and artists during the historic UN climate conference "COP26" in Glasgow and document how...

Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli

Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)

Having survived centuries of genocide, Native Americans are now on the frontlines of the final struggle for planetary survival. This film tells the untold story of history's deadliest holocaust, and of an enduring resistance to colonial domination.

53 min

US Votes No On UN Ceasefire Resolution, Climate Summit Modest Success

First Thought news from December 13, 2023.

7 min

Record 2,500 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Descend on COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai

This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists outnumber the delegations of every country other than Brazil and the United Arab...

15 min

HeadSpin! Rewrite the Rules of the Money Game (2023)

Introducing… HeadSpin! our parody game show which exposes the only real winners in this economy: big banks, fossil fuel giants, and landlords.

6 min

Why Capitalism Loves Fossil Fuels

"In this video essay, I look at how the birth of industrial capitalism led to the birth of fossil fuel use at an industrial scale. Specifically, I look at how capitalist forces led factory owners to embrace fossil fuels over water power, despite water being cheaper and more...

23 min

Can Trees Stop Climate Change?

Drought, forest fires and increasingly frequent storms. Climate change is destroying our forests. All over the world, people are looking for ways to keep them from dying out. Yet nature itself knows best what forests need to thrive.

26 min

The Edge of Nature by Josh Fox (trailer)

Josh Fox and the creators of GASLAND, HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN'T CHANGE and AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK premieres his most personal film yet.

3 min

The Amazing Community Making Beautiful Compost from City Food Waste | Ben & bEartha (2023)

'Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story' is a free 40-minute sustainability documentary following the highs and lows of a passionate community as they attempt to tackle the issue of food waste going to landfill. Their solution? A composting machine called bEartha and...

40 min

Imprint (2023)

What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film "Imprint" we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic depiction of what it means to be fully human in...

75 min

Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al

World leaders just gathered at the UN in New York to discuss the climate, ahead of the main COP 28 climate conference coming up in November 2023. The president of that event is also the CEO of one of the world's largest oil and gas producers. So how, in the name of all things...

16 min

The Living Planet View: To Save the Earth, We Need to Reframe the Goal

"When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...

2 min

Awakening of the Soil (Toprağın Uyanışı) (2021)

"Awakening of the Soil" is a compelling 42-minute documentary that follows the transformative journey of Barbaros, a skeptical farmer from Edirne, Turkey as he discovers the world of regenerative agriculture with the guidance of his friend, Begonia. Together, they embark on a...

42 min

Exposed: The Smear Tactics against Wind and Solar

You shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet. Particularly when it comes to renewable energy. We started debunking some of the biggest myths about wind and solar energy – and ended up in a world of shady lobby groups and secret money streams. Come follow us down...

13 min

What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore

In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and gives his view of how we might actually solve the environmental crisis in time. You won't want to miss his searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for walking back their...

26 min

Honest Government Ad | COP31 Australia & the Pacific

The Australien Government made an ad about its bid to host the 2026 UN Climate Summit (COP31) with the Pacific, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative

4 min

I Am Greta (2020) (trailer)

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament...

3 min

YOUTH V GOV (2020) (trailer)

YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to 25, who are taking on the world’s most powerful government. Since 2015, the legal non-profit Our Children’s Trust, has been representing these...

2 min

Guardians of the Earth: A Film about the Paris Agreement (2017)

Twenty thousand worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet from climate change. Behind closed doors, these delegates have to negotiate on the first global climate change agreement by the...

85 min

Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce (2021)

20 years ago, a young group of social entrepreneurs started a company to sustainably harvest açaí berries in the Brazilian Amazon. They joined a movement of purpose-driven companies looking to change the world through an alternative economic model. These "triple bottom line"...

51 min

Rollbacks: An Assault Against Life on Earth (2019)

We are in the midst of a climate crisis. It is imperative we understand what this means and what we can do to reverse the damage. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

30 min

Why "Net Zero" Is A Scam

Why net zero emissions are a scam, explained.

14 min

Difficult Times - the Threat of Collapse 2023 (2023)

I began this video almost a year ago. It started out as a poem touching on my personal story and the trajectory of climate change. As it began to have a life of its own it grew into a mix of poetry and polemic and a unique idiom. It’s demanding and confronting But this is a...

50 min

Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at climate hypocrisy and carbon guilt. Specifically, I dig into why I don't care about your flight emissions, and how our attention to individual carbon footprints and worries about being seen as hypocritical...

24 min

Why You Can't Ignore This Far-Right Trend

In this video, I look at the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now glimpses of two trends within the far right that are a reaction to climate change. Ecofascism and fossil...

25 min

The Most Sustainable City In America

Over the last few weeks, I reached out to sustainability experts around the world, crunched a bunch of numbers, and asked all of you for help finding the most sustainable city in America. Here's what I learned. - Distilled

12 min

Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse

A look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements, from Our Changing Climate.

22 min

Super Polluters (2023)

Super pollutants Methane, Black Carbon and Hydrofluorocarbon are 80 to 10,000 times more potent than Carbon Dioxide. They can speed up Global Warming and cause health issues like Cancer and Asthma.

2 min

My Name Is Blue (2023)

Humans and sea turtles in the Mediterranean. A story about coexistence.

35 min

Reconsidering Reparations | Olufemi O. Taiwo

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project—either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present, or they focus on the...

60 min

PFAS: The Forever Chemicals (2023)

PFAS is a group of 5,000 different man-made chemicals that are found in your everyday products. Exposure can cause cancer, high blood pressure and many other health problems.

3 min

Why Is Thailand The World’s Dumping Ground For Plastic And Waste? | Full Episode (2022)

Thailand receives over half a million tonnes of imported waste each year, even as its own waterways are clogged with garbage. The foreign waste is meant to feed Thailand’s plastic recycling industry, but loopholes, false declarations and incorrect handling mean that some of...

46 min

The Other Source: Where does plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch really come from? (2022)

Our research team just published its latest findings on the composition, origins and age of plastic debris accumulating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) in the journal Scientific Reports.

10 min

The Insane True Scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2019)

This video explores the insane true scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Learn about what causes it and how we are working together to clean up this mess!

8 min

Why Work Is Killing Us (and the Planet)

This video looks at why work is killing us and the planet. Specifically, I unpack how wage work under capitalism is inherently a system of exploitation of people and planet. In order to truly forge a zero-carbon world, we must do away with wage work and transform our...

19 min

The Titans of Plastic: PA becomes the newest sacrifice zone for America’s plastic addiction (2022)

For the residents who live nearby, Shell’s big bet on plastic represents a new chapter in the same story that’s plagued the region for decades: An extractive industry moves in, exports natural resources at a tremendous profit—most of which flow to outsiders—and leaves...

4 min

I Am The Land | A Film by Josee Molavi (2020)

I Am The Land explores the intersections of modern science, environmental activism, and Taíno Indigenous spiritual knowledge in the pursuit of climate justice on the island of Puerto Rico (Borikén).

20 min

Plastic Addiction (2023)

The convenience of our plastic addiction comes at a terrible environmental cost. This short explainer video takes you through the lifecycle of plastic production.

3 min

The Age Of Consequences (2021)

An examination of the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity and migration through the lens of national security and global stability.

66 min

The News Media Is Selling You Out

The news media is in the pocket of a major industry.

25 min

ATLAS - An Artist's Journey To Draw Attention (2022)

Produced by Fishbulb Films, ATLAS follows ocean wildlife artist Olivier Leger as he embarks on his latest painting ‘Atlas’.

30 min

How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?

The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them. Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!

Dr. Aaron Thierry

Climate Collateral: How Military Spending Accelerates Climate Breakdown

Military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources...

3 min

Living in the Time of Dying (2020)

Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house...

54 min

Your vote for a healthy planet x (2022)

We are on a mission to speed up UK government action on the climate and nature. Will you join us?

2 min

Growing Pains: the Ecological Cost of an Insatiable Economy (2019)

'Growing Pains' is the title for a short edit (47min) of the award-winning documentary 'System Error'. A look at the global and political obsession with economic growth and the ecological and humanitarian consequences.

47 min

Don't Tell Me to Just Breathe (2022)

This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the...

6 min

Why Billionaires Won't Save Us

In this video essay, I look at why billionaires won't save us from climate change. Specifically, I look at how the elite philanthropy of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk function as more of a billionaire preservation of wealth and self than as an act of altruism.

15 min

Have You Seen This Chevron Ad?

Nothing is more precious than life.

2 min

How the Rich REALLY Cause Climate Change

In this video essay, I look at how the rich really cause climate change. Specifically, I look at how the focus on the richest people in the world's consumption habits (i.e. our obsession with Taylor Swift's jet emissions) distracts us from how they make their money in the...

21 min

The Scariest Climate Science Paper I've Ever Read?

This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements of the climate system, such as excess melting of the Greenland ice sheet...

12 min

The Magnitude of All Things (trailer)

When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the...

2 min

REGENESIS: George Monbiot Calls for the End of (Almost All) Animal Farming

Britain's leading environmental thinker presents his most audacious idea yet, in this 6-minute short film from director Franny Armstrong (THE AGE OF STUPID, McLIBEL) and the animation team at Brewery VFX.

6 min

A Tale from the Woods (2020)

Is it really “green” and “environmentally smart” to use clearcutting methods, like the forestry industry say? Or is it an outdated, inefficient and heavily carbon-emitting practice that does not belong in a world already struggling with forest fires and a climate crisis? How...

47 min

On The Wild Side (2022)

Wild plants matter on our urban streets and footpaths. Co-author of 'Wiltshire Flora', Dave Green explains why in this award winning short film.

9 min

Make It A Fair Cop Glasgow (2022)

We went to COP 26 in Glasgow to find out what was being done about the climate crisis and the destruction of the natural world. This film shows you what - and whom - we found. One thing is for sure. Governments must do much. much more than they are doing. We can't leave it to...

34 min

Power of Water (Ukrainian / English) (2021)

Power of Water is an educational documentary short film exploring how water-ecology is key to our world's well-being. Explore its power and interconnected nature with experts from Ukraine and the USA. This upbeat yet information-rich film also features children’s hands-on...

10 min

What is Project 3.5? | Extinction Rebellion UK

We’ve got a plan, it’s called Project 3.5 The idea is a simple one: To build a movement that’s too big for the government and the fossil fuel industry to ignore, and to do it one door at a time.

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