The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.

In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker loaded with 220,000 tons of petrol, ran aground in Brittany,...

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make m...

A stunning and intimate portrait of the Arhuaco indigenous community in Colombia. In 1990, in a cele...

In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuse...

After a plane crash, four indigenous children fight to survive in the Colombian Amazon using ancestr...

There are ticking time bombs off the coasts of the world, of which the public has hardly been aware:...

With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skill...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and bec...

When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the firs...

In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soun...

This film takes us on an emotional journey from sacred ground above Byron Bay to Antarctica, Indones...

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinoge...

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with...

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing a...

Cuviví is the Ecuadorean indigenous name for the upland sandpiper, a wading bird that has special si...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritua...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the im...