Below you can find a long list of documentaries and podcasts that are relevant for political ecology, teaching it, and the field in general. We aim to continuously expand this list. If you have any Documentaries and Podcasts to share, please send them to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com
The descriptions to the documentaries contain keywords based on their theme, topic and geographic area, making it easier for you to locate a movie, if you are looking for something specific!
Documentaries
| Title | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Into Eternity | Nuclear waste management, future, energy, Finland, Europe |
| The psychosis of whiteness | Racism, cultural representation, history, slave trade, identity |
| Anote’s Ark | Climate refugees, rising sea levels, island states, New Zealand, Oceania |
| Keepers of the Future: La Coordinadora of El Salvadoras | community organisation, local initiatives, El Salvador, Central America |
| Opening the earth: the potato king | mountains, tradition versus modernity, Andes, Peru, South America |
| Gender in Coffee | women’s empowerment, masculinity, women’s coffee, sustainability, Mexico, US, North America |
| The Borneo Case | logging, indigenous peoples, high level corruption, deforestation, Indonesia, Southeast Asia |
| Burned: Are trees the new coal | biomass, climate, environmental justice, US, North America |
| Marathon for Justice | chemical pollution, exploitation, environmental justice, environmental inequity, US, North America |
| When Two Worlds Collide | indigenous peoples, environmental activism, economics, land, business, Amazon, Peru, South America |
| Big Men | Oil, exploitation, militants, US business, Ghana, Nigeria, Africa |
| Land Grab | Land grab, urban farming, wealth and poverty, Detroit City, US, North America |
| Crude | Oil, Indigenous People, law suit, Chevron, Celebrity, Energy, Ecuador, South America |
| Darwin’s Nightmare | Fishing industry, poverty, nature, aid, arms, Mwanza, Tanzania. Africa |
| Virunga | gorillas, conservation, park rangers, poaching, Virunga National Park, Congo, Africa |
| Chasing Coral | choral bleaching, acidification, climate change, worldwide |
| Sun Come Up | rising sea levels, small island states, climate refugees, climate change, Carteret Islands, Oceania |
| Gasland I Gasland II | Fracking, natural gas, toxic pollution, environmental impacts, US, North America |
| Everyday Rebellion | nonviolent protest, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, worldwide |
| Super Polluters | power plants, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Indiana, US, North America |
| Seed | seeds, patenting/licensing, protest, agrochemical companies, worldwide |
| The Island President | rising sea levels, political struggle, small island state, climate change, Maldives, South Asia |
| Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas | land grabbing, World Bank, farming, business, Ethiopia, Africa |
| The Doubt Machine | Koch Brothers, oil industry, lobbying, climate regulation, US, North America |
| Marmato | environmental struggle, Canadian Barrick, gold mining, Colombia, South America |
| The Smog of the Sea + A Plastic Ocean | plastic pollution, oceans, micro plastic, conservation, worldwide |
| Coal rush | indigenous peoples, Environmental justice, community struggle, pollution and health hazards, coal mining, US, North America |
| The Micro debt | micro-credit, debt, exploitation, poverty, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, worldwide |
| The carbon crooks | EU carbon market, fraud, climate change, Denmark, Europe |
| Disruption | climate crisis, industry interests, peoples’ climate march, worldwide |
| Hija de la laguna | Mining, exploitation, protest march, Peru, South America |
| Under the dome | Air pollution, corruption, China, Asia |
| I am Chut Wutty | environmental struggle, rubber plantation, deforestation, Prey Lang Forest, Cambodia, Southeast Asia |
| A place without people | protected areas, exclusion, displacement, indigenous peoples, Tanzania, Africa |
| Biutiful Cauntri | environmental justice, waste disposal, pollution, disaster, political use of science, Italy, Europe |
| Come hell or high water: the battle of turkey creek | environmental justice, corporate interests, self-determination, US, North America |
| Habilito | debt, timber extraction, deforestation, Bolivia, South America |
| Fractured Country: An Unconventional Invasion | communities, risk, invasive gas fields, Australia, Oceania |
| Eldorado | mining, political protest, repression, Greece, Europe |
| Silas | activism, illegal logging, resistance, Liberia, Africa |
| Awake, a dream for Standing Rock | Standing Rock, oil, pipeline, conflict; peaceful protest, indigenous peoples, US, North America |
| Angry Inuk | Greenpeace, seal hunting, indigenous communities, Greenland, Arctic |
| The condor and the eagle | Indigenous leaders, climate justice, trans-continental journey, South and North America |
| In Our Hands | Agroecology, food sovereignty, UK, Europe |
| We will win peace | humanitarian aid, business, activism, Congo, Africa |
| Stealing Africa | Copper mining, corruption, Zambia, Africa |
| Appetite for Destruction: The Palm Oil Diaries | palm oil, industry, social and environmental impact, worldwide |
| Death by design | Electronics industry, e-waste, environmental destruction, sustainability, worldwide |
| Time to choose | Climate change, challenges, solutions, worldwide |
| Yasuni Man | Oil, indigenous peoples, Amazon, Ecuador, South America |
| The Island and the Whales | whale hunting, mercury, toxic bodies, Faroe Islands, Europe |
| The Last Guardians | indigenous peoples, preservation, oil, Amazon, Ecuadorian, South America |
| Tomorrow | climate change, environmentalism, local initiatives, farming, money, politics, worldwide |
| Time for Geography | Inspiring, open-access geography educational videos |
| Make Way! The Kuno Story | Lion reintroduction, conservation, displacement, Adivasi, resource politics, India, Asia |
| Make Way! The Kwari Story | Displacement, micro-politics, local state, resistance, caste, India, Asia |
| Urban Futures in the India Himalayas | Subaltern urbanization, urban growth, sanitation, informality, construction, commodification, India, Asia |
| EQUAL@AUD | Human ecology resource videos (assorted, open source) |
| Made in Bangladesh | drama, exploitation, textile industry, slums, Bangladesh, Asia |
| Ongi | conflict, humpback dolphins, artisanal fisheries, narrative of displacement and loss of fishing livelihoods, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia |
| Why is Vanilla So Expensive | vanilla farmers, commodities, violence, theft, volatile markets, boom/bust, Madagascar, Africa |
| Natur Urbana – The Brachen of Berlin | changing vegetation, war-time destruction, geo-political division, urban transformation, Berlin, Germany, Europe |
| Shiver | shark finning, coastal livelihoods, Mozambique, Africa |
| One Table Two Elephants | (free access), postcolonial ecologies, nature, urbanization, class, race, South Africa, Africa |
| Fairytales of Growth | Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change, young people, worldwide |
| Turning Livilihoods to Waste | free, urban waste, contested chain of value extraction, policy discussions, advocacy, South Africa, Africa |
| Moti Bagh | farming, award-winning, poetry, Uttarakhand, India, Asia |
| Enough is Enough | alternatives, degrowth, enough economy, worldwide |
| Alberta Canada – Toxic (One; Two; Three) | poisoned water, polluted air, rare cancer, oil sands, Alberta, Canada, North America |
| Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Antipode online |
| David Harvey and the City | Antipode online |
| Walls and the Tiger | rural community, land seizure, capitalisation, protest, activism, India, Asia |
| Nero’s Guests | farmer suicide, faulty government, corporate and IMF WB policies, India, Asia |
Podcasts
| KPFA Against the Grain | In-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social, and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong. |
| David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles | David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is a bimonthly podcast that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens. |
| In Common | Explores the connections between humans, their environment and each other through stories told by scholars and practitioners. In-depth interviews and methods webinars explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work on commons governance, social-ecological resilience, and sustainability. |
| Antipod | Antipod is a radical geography podcast and sound collective. This podcast is intended for anyone interested in and committed to life and liberation around the planet. Antipod amplifies and harmonizes with vital perspectives on how to get free and stay free. Antipod is a polyvocal podcast that takes place across geographically dispersed localities. |
| Hidden carbon costs of the US military’s drive to control fossil fuel supply | carbon emissions, militarisation, fossil fuels, war, US, North America |
| The Edge Effects | The Edge Effects podcast features interviews with scholars, scientists, activists, and artists who engage with questions of environmental and cultural change. |
| New Books in Environmental Studies | Interviews with environmental scientists about their new books |
| BIOSEC & BUBBLES SERIES Ep.1: LUXURY AND THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE | In their first podcast, Hannah Dickinson, Teresa Lappe-Osthege and Laure Joanny discuss the caviar and songbird trade, unpicking the status of the songbird and caviar products often illegally harvested and consumed as luxury delicacies in Europe. |
| BIOSEC & BUBBLES Ep.2: RESEARCHING WILDLIFE CRIME, FROM NATIONAL PARKS TO HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS | In their second podcast, Rosaleen Duffy and Francis Massé share their experience of following responses to issues labelled as wildlife crime and maintaining a dialogue with conservation practitioners and policy makers. |
| The Belt and Road Initiative | A podcast that covers the latest news, research and analysis of China’s growing presence in the developing world. |
| EXALT Podcast | Join hosts Christopher Chagnon and Sophia Hagolani-Albov and their guests on the last Friday of each month for a discussion of the impacts of extractivisms, alternative ways forward, and stories from people living the struggle every day. If you are someone interested in how our environment and societies have come to their current state or learning about different ways we can move forward, this is the podcast for you. |
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