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Nature reflects our nature
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
(Documentary)
Director: Davis Guggenheim
We follow Al Gore, former US vice-president in his passionate lecture series and
campaigns to raise awareness and call for urgent action from the wider public to
curb human-induced global warming and environmental destruction. The com-
mitment, energy and profound understanding of a politician in environmental
issues is contagiously inspiring.
Themes: Global warming, environmental crisis
Further watching: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) is a follow-up
on An Inconvenient Truth
Food, Inc. (2008)
(Documentary)
Director: Robert Kenner
“YOU’LL NEVER LOOK AT DINNER THE SAME WAY!!!” Rethinking the impact of
food on the environment: how America’s corporate controlled food industry has
a massive environmental footprint.
Themes: Corporate farming, intensive farming, meat industry, food labeling reg-
ulations
Further watching: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) and The Story
of Stuff (2007) – both promote sustainability while revealing issues of environ-
mentally damaging production and excessive consumerism.
Promised Land (2012)
(Drama)
Director: Gus Van Sant
A salesman for a natural gas company finds that he is just a pawn for his compa-
ny planning to tap the oil reserve by displacing people from a small town.
Themes: Resource exploitation, indigenous rights, displacement, fracking (hy-
draulic fracturing)
Further watching: First Reformed (2017) is a drama thriller in which worldly
concerns arising from environmental destruction make the characters quest
Dark Wind (Kadvi Hawa) (2017)
(Drama)
Director: Nila Madhab Panda
How the lives of two characters intersect as their families suffer from apparently
opposite consequences of climate change – severe drought in Rajasthan and
coastal flooding in Odisha. Two ends of the spectrum – water in scarcity and
water in excess cause different but equally painful plights to people in two sides
of India.
Themes: Climate change, drought, climate-induced disasters, coastal flood
Further watching: Bhopal Express (1999) by Mahesh Mathai and Bhopal: A
Prayer for Rain (2014) by Ravi Kumar based on the infamous Bhopal Gas
Jal (2013)
(Drama, Action)
Director: Girish Malik
The desperate search for water in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat where a water di-
viner tries to find water for the village and a foreign birdwatcher tries to save the
flamingo population from deaths in a saltwater lake.
Themes: water scarcity, conflict for natural resource
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