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2) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
This film charts the devastating ecological impact of overfishing by interweaving both local and global stories of sharply declining fish populations, including the imminent extinction of the bluefin tuna, and illuminates how our modern fishing capacities far outstrip the survival abilities of any ocean species. Scientists explain how this depletion has slipped under the public radar and outline the catastrophic future that awaits us -- an ocean without...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After a series of mysterious events in which people kill themselves after suffering from disorientation, a science teacher and his family go on the run and discover that the source of the attacks appears to be a natural phenomenon.
Series
Publisher
Embassy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Bill Markham, an engineer, returns to the Amazon year after year searching for his son who had disappeared into the jungle. After ten years of searching, Markham finds the man that had once been his boy, but now is a warrior from a different world.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Disaster: This disturbing and often spectacular episode charts 100 years of disaster and raises the greatest question of all: Can mankind and the planet survive the legacy of the twentieth century?
Freedom: Freedom explores the 20th century of phenomenon of people power, from the individual freedom fighters to the millions of ordinary people who have campaigned to change the course of history.
Publisher
[National Geographic Channel]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change. Leonardo DiCaprio travels to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand, going on expeditiions with scientists and meeting with political leaders. Also presents steps individuals and society can take to prevent the disruption of life on our planet.
Publisher
In the Light Productions
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
Traversing the globe, the film celebrates the dazzling natural spectacles of our planet, while also revealing how a deeper connection with nature can transform each of us and inspire us to restore endangered ecosystems, as well as our human family. Liam Neeson provides the voice of Homo Sapiens, our collective humankind, reflecting on how in the past several thousand years we have gradually separated from nature, believing we were meant to transcend...
9) Baraka
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Shot in 24 countries on six continents, this film, without narration or dialogue, presents a visual spectacle emphasing religious ritual as well as addressing the human condition and the idea of humanity vis-à-vis nature.
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? This isn't the story of how we might vanish, it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. Examine how the very landscape of planet Earth would change in our absence. A stunningly graphic journey to a world wiped clean of humanity.
The bodies left behind: See what happens to human bodies, most embalmed and buried, some mummified, others cryogenically frozen, in a world devoid...
11) Love thy nature
Publisher
In the Light Productions
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature points to how deeply we've lost touch with nature - and takes us on a mesmerizing cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world. Neeson is the voice of "Sapiens" (our collective humankind) who, in the past few thousand years, has come to believe that we have transcended nature. Yet, experts uncover how a new era of nature-connection might just be dawning: "Biomimicry"...
12) Honeyland
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Türkçe
Description
"Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice"--Container.
13) Jungle tales
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the jungle is threatened by a giant monster, a young Koati rises up to lead the animals in an epic fight to save their home. As the brave Koati trains to save his family and loved ones all the animals band together to face the monster in this fun-filled adventure.
14) Baraka
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Shot in 24 countries on six continents, this film, without narration or dialogue, presents a visual spectacle emphasing religious ritual as well as addressing the human condition and the idea of humanity vis-à-vis nature.
15) Yume =: Dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 842
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life. As a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers...
16) Earth emergency
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Awarded for its visionary cinematography, General orders no. 9 breaks from the constraints of the documentary form as it contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South. The stunning culmination of over eleven years' work from first-time writer-director Robert Persons, General Orders No. 9 marries experimental filmmaking with an accessible, naturalist sensibility to tell the epic story of the clash between nature and man's progress,...
Series
Cousteau collection volume 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The crocodile now flourishes in Australia's Kakadu National Park along with monitor lizards, one-third of Australia's bird species, and aboriginal people who mastered the use of fire to control their environment. The Cousteau teams also visits Kangaroo Island. Then it's on to a different kind of ocean, a mummified landscape in the Australian interior that 350-million years ago was a seabed abundant with life.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Filmed across the U.S., in Europe, Australia, and Asia, examine the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and Mother Earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic loss.
20) Yume
Series
Criterion collection volume 842
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life.
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