Videos

From: John Shribbs Frontline: Polluted Waters (2009) 2 hours long. Lots of interviews and talking heads, but does cover many aspects, especially scientific evidence and politcal forces, that shape policies and actions. There are breakouts into separate chapters taking on individual aspects so the chapters can be used as standalones. The news coverage is broad and views both sides of issues so it is a more balanced approach leading to discussions.

From: Tamar Cunha, Biology and Environmental Science Teacher, Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, CT TED talksof interest Glacial retreat (climate change) @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.html Species Conservation @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/john_kasaona_from_poachers_to_caretakers.html Environmental collapse, Tragedy of the Commons @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse.html Ocean and climate change (w/ ocean acidification) @http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rob_dunbar.html Scientific Method on bad science @http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html Really good TED talk on the science of Climate Change @http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change.html

Americas before Columbus - YouTube video - 1hour 40 min. []

"Radioactive Wolves" 50 minute documentary PBS special 2011 on the wolf population in the human free zone around Chernobyl []

**From Glen Dolphin**

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**Here is a short, but really "cool" video from nature that could spark a whole bunch of conversation about dissolution, density, and energy transfer. It's just over a minute long, so worth the watch.** ======

Lectures on Biology at Brightspot.com [] Many short lectures on ecology, biomes, cycles, and more

PBS Power Surge 55 min. Online at: [] Can we move forward past the Carbon Issue?

The Big Energy Gamble - PBS video on California Issue []

Website for movie worksheets: []

Simple Video Worksheet Use 4 squares on a piece of paper that students fill in: 1 List of factsual items in the movie, e.g. what are the green house gas chemicals 2 Lists of emotional appeals, philosophies 3 Questions to ask and research later 4 Wow factors in the movie - what was most interesting

New videos to watch: Sea Change - oceans are being affected by climate change Ingredients - local food movement gaining popularity

climate change reality day SEP 14: see the videos: []

Cane Toad video online: []

Fisheries movie: "**End of the Line**" is getting favorable reveiws from APES teachers.

This site hosts all public-domain documentary films and they can all be watched from here free of charge. []

//Story by Jessica A. Knoblauch.// This article originally appeared in //Plenty// in October 2008.


 * //An Inconvenient Truth//**(2006)It’s an obvious pick, but this doc is a great primer on [|global warming] . Its message is sobering, true, but Al Gore says that if we act boldly, quickly and wisely, we can solve this climate crisis.


 * //Erin Brokovich//**(2000)Based on a true story, Julia Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a small-town gal who takes on chemical company PG&E after coming across suspicious medical records from a nearby town. It’s that rare tale of David taking on Goliath, and winning.


 * //Who Killed the Electric Car?//** (2006) If you think that electric cars are a new idea, think again. This documentary goes back to the mid-'90s to dig out the GM EV1 electric car, a popular green vehicle quickly buried by auto industries and greedy politicians.


 * //The 11th Hour//** (2007) When dealing with the global warming crisis, think big. That’s the message behind this global warming documentary that offers exciting and radical solutions from leading scientists and innovators to help save the planet from total climate catastrophe.


 * //Wall-E//**(2008)This computer-animated science-fiction tale is a futuristic look at an Earth so polluted by mass consumerism that humans had to leave it. //Wall-E// clearly has an environmental agenda, but it gets the message across without preaching.


 * //Planet in Peril//** (2007)Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin travel 13 countries in this two-part documentary on some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, including global warming, species extinction and water pollution.


 * //Silkwood//** (1983) The true-life account of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), an Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on her company’s dangerous practices and then mysteriously “disappeared.”


 * //A Civil Action//** (1998)In this true story, John Travolta defies stereotypes about out-for-themselves personal injury lawyers. Sticking his own neck out, he sues a major corporation for contaminating a town’s drinking water with industrial solvents.


 * //Planet Earth//**(2007)This Emmy-winning series travels the world to show the connection between all animals, big or small. The beautifully scenic shots alone will give you a renewed appreciation for all things great and small.


 * //The End of Suburbia//** (2004)The white picket fence never seemed so threatening. This documentary takes a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of suburbia, and asks whether this lifestyle can ever be truly sustainable.


 * //A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash//** (2006)This documentary looks at our addiction to oil and the inevitable chaos that's sure to ensue once it runs out. The film outlines the challenge while highlighting our desperate need for an alternative energy source.


 * // Hea //**** t **(available online, 2008)This Frontline documentary investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth's looming environmental disaster and examines whether major corporations and governments are up to the challenge.


 * // Flow //**(limited showing in theaters)This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's fresh water supply, asking the question, “Can anyone really own water?”


 * Top 10 Environmental Documentaries That Don't Rhyme With A Schminconvenient Schmuth.**

April 8, 2008 - 3:09pm — [|GreenCineStaff] Yeah yeah yeah, we all love [|Al Gore] and his jaunty powerpoint presentation but // Inconvenient Truth // is not the only fruit, dear viewers. Here I suggest a few other environmentally-focused documentaries to make you laugh, cry, act - and seethe with anger. 1. // [|Rivers and Tides] // - My personal favorite of the whole list, Rivers and Tides is a documentary about artist [|Andy Goldsworthy] who creates large-scale sculptures out of ice, wood, creeks, fields and forests. The film is an absorbing look at the ethereal possibilities in art and nature. Goldsworthy's charm and his work's beauty (and occasional absurdity) is keenly documented by German film-maker [|Thomas Riedelsheimer] ([|//Touch the Sound//]). 2. // [|Radiant City] ///// [|The Unforeseen] // - Two docs that examines the clash of economic growth with environmental protection in two very different ways. [|//Radiant City//], a Canadian docudrama looks at the psychological toll living in a ceaseless suburban wasteland has on one family intercut with a series of community designers, philosophers, architects and economists to pontificate on the larger macro effects. // [|The Unforeseen] // chronicles the battle over the development of a piece of land outside Austin, TX that could provide both a quick financial boon to a lagging local economy while ruining one of the area's most pristine natural playlands Barton Springs. Both films find extremely inventive methods to visualize these concepts as well. //Radiant City// forces its talking head experts to deliver their lectures from the back rows of a city bus, Unforeseen uses extraordinary underwater and aerial photography to illustrate both the immediate human connection and transformative awe of nature. 3. // [|Blue Vinyl] // - A tongue-in-cheek but informative piece of modern yellow journalism, co-directors [|Judith Helfand] and Daniel B. Gold (who would later collaborate on another worthy enviro doc, [|//Everything's Cool//]) examine the toxicity of home building materials that culminates in a trek to Italy where the largest world's largest PVC vinyl siding manufacturer is on trial for manslaughter due to the toxic effects of their products. 4. [|//Life and Debt//] - Stephanie Black's documentary examines the economic and environmental impacts of the IMF's mandate that Jamaica become an export economy. This decision forced the nation to grow crops that depleted their soil of all fertility, polluted the water systems and oh yeah, created even more poverty, which eventually led to outbreaks of disease due to malnourishment, which led to riots. In particular, scenes from a Chiquita banana plant raid where private security forces gun down workers will not soon be forgotten. Author Jamaica Kincaid narrates. 5. // [|Cane Toads: An Unnatural History] // - A comedic short documentary that examines the disastrous results of interfering with an ecosytem. Farmers in Australia, frustrated with an infestation of beetles, imported cane toads from Hawaii who wound up not eating the beetles, poisoning all their natural predators and multiplying to the point of becoming a larger nuisance than the beetles ever were. Also holds the distinct honor of inspiring a gag in an episode of [|//The Simpsons//]. 6. // [|Manufactured Landscapes] // - [|Jennifer Baichwal] used the premise of making a documentary about the work of photographer [|Edward Burtynsky] to gain access factories, shipyards and the Three Rivers dam construction sites that the Chinese government strictly does not allow documentation of. In it we see the devastating effects of strip mining, the deplorable working conditions for shipbreakers and just where all those electronic parts go when we throw them away. The news is not good, but the cinematography is stunning and lends the subject matter a great, visceral horror. 7. // [|Who Killed the Electric Car] // - A sardonic approach to the old school filmstrip style of documentary film-making. //Who Killed the Electric Car?// methodically examines all the suspects behind General Motor's mystifying decision in the early 90s to recall and destroy every electric car they created after having invested millions in the technology, production facilities and advertising to put them into the market. Particularly galling to see as gas now officially hits $4/gallon.
 * By Erin Donovan**

8. // [|King Corn] ///// [|The Future of Food] // - Two docs that examine the impact of genetic engineering and government subsidization of unhealthy, cheap foods and the effects it's having on the well-being of the planet and individual health. [|//King Corn//] is an affable, hands-on approach to investigating the industrialization of food and the effect it has on one small farm town in Iowa. // [|The Future of Food] // is an engaging look at the outrageous amount of influence the food industry has on government regulation and subsidies. Despite their heady subject matter both films are surprisingly entertaining without becoming preachy or dull. 9. // [|Blue Planet: Seas of Life] // series - This magnificent 8-part series contains the most awe-inspiring underwater photography ever filmed from every end of the ocean. Host [|David Attenborough] swims with blue whales; we see the habitats of coastal creatures like seals, turtles and crabs; the polar bears of the arctic and of course the amazing sharks. But the real winner here is the expedition into the open ocean, miles beneath the surface, to film sea creatures that live in complete darkness, many that have never been filmed before. They are pretty gnarly looking and prove that real life is far more bizarre than anything Hollywood could cook up. 10. // [|Go Further] // - Not the most informative doc of the bunch but 90 minutes of [|Woody Harrelson] tooling around the country in a van powered by tofu extolling the virtues of simple living and hemp cannot be missed. They also drop in on author [|Ken Kesey] ( [|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest] ) who passed away shortly after.
 * Honorable mentions:** // Flow: For Love of Water // (not on DVD yet but hopefully soon), // [|Baraka], [|11th Hour] , [|Winged Migration] , [|Darwin's Nightmare] //.


 * Ostrum's Movie List**:
 * Surviving the Dust Bowl ● Outbreak
 * Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring ● Erin Brockovich
 * Influenza 1918 ● Winged Migration
 * Never Cry Wolf ● March of the Penguins
 * My Father’s Garden ● Cane Toads
 * Fierce Creatures ● Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
 * Gorillas in the Mist ● Syriana
 * A Civil Action ● On Deadly Ground
 * Toxic ● The Day After Tomorrow
 * Super Size Me ● Sahara
 * Fire Down Below ● China Syndrome
 * Silkwood ● The Candidate
 * Silver City ● 2012

From Luci Mathews Go to __[] __. America's Climate Choices pops up and includes links to 5 videos. From Patrick Earle, TC Williams High School, Alexandria, VA I show them "The Silence of the Bees", which isa great look at the scientific method trying to figure out what is causingColony Collapse Disorder in honey bees. It also concludes with showing a pear producing region in China that haslost all of its honey bees due to pesticide use, and the locals have to handpollinate all the pear flowers. You canstream it for free from this link: []

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From Shane Goldberg, Comsewogue HS, Port Jefferson Station  These very concerns were addressed in the documentary film **"Fuel".** They specificallyaddressed why the biodiesel momentum fell flat just as it was taking off. In 2004 articles came out blasting the fuelsource for driving up food prices- new technology is utilizing plants forbiodiesel that are not food stock, plants that are hearty enough to not needthe input of fertilizers and pesticides. In some cases the plants could be used to restore farmland that is notarable. I can't speak to whether or not the industry is utilizing all of the practices shown in the film- but at least one company (referenced in the movie) is working on these solutions.

From: Deborah Lepper Suggestions on the best movie to cover air pollution and/or global warming: "Six Degrees Could Change the World" and "Too Hot Not to Handle".

From: Teri Butler, Lyceum Academy, New Hanover High School When showing "inconvenient Truth" have students fill in 3 topics below: I. Evidencepresented IN THE FILM that global warming/climate change is occuring. II. Evidence presented IN THE FILM that globalwarming/climate change is anthropogenic. III. Evidence presented IN THE FILM that global changes are/will occur due to global warming. Students then have to find other supporting evidence for HW.

**List of Movies**
Alaska's Last Oil by National Geographic Baraka Peak Oil A Crude Awakening Blind Spot available on the web at: [] Silkwood (Drama wtih Nuclear Industry Workers) Fuel Black Blizzard from History.com channel, about dustbowl Food, Inc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cane Toads: The Conquest PBS's E2 - Growing Energy: Ethanol in Brazil Growing Energy Dirt - The Movie Wall-E with question quide from James Rodewald see