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This article lists film and television works which feature or discuss the environment, environmentalism or environmental issues. Some notable and commercially successful films have featured environmental themes [ 1 ] and are commemorated through several environmental film festivals held annually.
Extinction: The Facts is a 2020 documentary film by the natural historian David Attenborough which aired on the BBC. It depicts the continuing sixth mass extinction, caused by humans, and the consequences of biodiversity loss and climate change. It also suggests positive action which can be taken to halt or reverse these effects.
Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered on 28 September 2020 in cinemas and debuted on the online streaming platform Netflix on 4 October. [2] [3] [4] A Life on Our Planet is the companion book to the film, released on 6 October 2020. [5]
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a 2020 British documentary film [1] narrated by David Attenborough and produced and directed by Jonnie Hughes. [2] The film acts as a "witness statement", [3] through which Attenborough shares first-hand his concern for the current state of the planet due to humanity's impact on nature and his hopes for the future. [4]
The film grossed $24 million in the US and $26 million in other countries' box offices, becoming the eleventh highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States. [5] Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of global warming and reenergizing the environmental ...
The film kicks into high gear with the introduction of Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), a pompous patriarch and industrialist who commissions Tóth to design an elaborate community center.
Film adaptation(s) Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (1982), Marty Jezer: Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Movie! (2000) The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Irving Stone: Michelangelo: The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 (1994), Erica Fischer: Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim: Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
The film, based upon Dennis Feltham Jones' science fiction novel Colossus (1966), is about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient. Colossus logically follows its original directives, to the dismay of its programmers, by assuming control of the world and all human affairs for the good of mankind [ 56 ] during the ...