Browse Exhibits (7 total)
Feature Films
View our library's current full-length documentary feature films.
Climate Challenge
Expert in ancient climates, Professor Siwan Davies investigates the impact of climate change on lives and landscapes across the globe, meeting those already being affected and those fighting back through old methods, and new.
Sinking Cities
As the earth warms, sea levels rise, and super-storms become more frequent and intense, many major coastal cities will soon be under water. Sinking Cities shows New York, London, Tokyo and Miami preparing for the real-time impact of rising seas and devising colossal new construction projects, and groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future.
Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline
Climate change is testing human ingenuity to the limits. In many parts of the world, it’s already too late for prevention. This remarkable series asks: what’s being done in this battle for survival, and is it working? Ade Adepitan travels to the frontline of the battle against climate change. He meets the ordinary people facing rising sea levels, drought, and forest fires, to see how they’re fighting to save their way of life and adapt to their new world. Along the way, he also meets scientists and tech entrepreneurs searching for solutions.
Years of Living Dangerously
This Emmy Award-winning 9-part documentary series explores the global human impact of climate change, from the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East. Executive Produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the programs feature celebrity investigators alongside well-known journalists with a background in environmental reportage. These "correspondents" travel to areas around the world affected by global warming, to interview experts, skeptics, and the ordinary people affected by, and seeking solutions to, the impacts of climate change. The celebrities include Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Michael C. Hall, Olivia Munn and Schwarzenegger. The journalists include Lesley Stahl, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes and Mark Bittman. The final episode includes Friedman's interview of President Barack Obama.
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
One year after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, director Spike Lee presents a four-hour, four-part chronicle recounting, through words and images, one of our country’s most profound natural disasters. In addition to revisiting the hours leading up to the arrival of Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane before it hit the coast of Louisiana, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts tells the personal stories of those who lived to tell about it, at the same time exploring the underbelly of a nation where the divide along race and class lines has never been more pronounced. An HBO Production.
Tipping Points
Six episodes focus on the emerging tipping points of climate change that have recently drawn concern from scientific communities worldwide.
This series looks to understand what can be done to stem the tide of irreparable global damage, and ultimately help save human lives throgh adaptation and shared sustainability.
Produced by The Weather Channel, ARTE, and WDR.