Best Documentaries on Pollution

This documentary shows the high cost to the environment and our health from bottled water. Activists, environmentalists, community leaders, and others expose the dark side of the bottled water industry.

Thirteen-year-olds in India protest plastic use. A renaissance man in Africa teaches villagers solar power. "Hillbillies" in Appalachia fight mining business. Tilda Swinton narrates this documentary. Producers from An Inconvenient Truth made it. It shows regular people acting to save the environment. Participant Media and the Alliance for Climate Protection executive produced it.

The Last Mountain is a 2011 documentary film. Bill Haney directed it. Peter Rhodes and Bill Haney wrote it.

Craig Leeson directed A Plastic Ocean in 2016. Leeson partnered journalist Tanya Streeter and scientists. They traveled twenty global spots over four years. They explored the ocean's fragile state.

Countries using nuclear energy face a big problem: dealing with highly toxic radioactive waste. In 1970, Finland started building a huge underground bunker to store nuclear waste until it becomes safe, a process taking 100,000 years. Director Michael Madsen explores nuclear energy's effects and human errors through interviews with Finnish scientists and researchers.

Filmmaker Robert Stone profiles energy experts and environmentalists. These experts once opposed nuclear energy but now support it.

Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore lecturing. The former presidential candidate campaigns to raise awareness about global warming dangers. Gore calls for immediate action to limit its environmental damage.

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations control the entire food chain in the United States. This includes farms, chain restaurants, and supermarkets. Author and activist Eric Schlosser narrates. The film features interviews with average Americans about their diets, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan, and footage inside large animal processing plants.

Home is a 2009 French documentary film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Aerial footage from 54 countries shows how Earth's problems link together because of human pressure on the environment and climate change results.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets scientists, activists, and world leaders. They discuss climate change dangers and possible solutions.

Jeff Orlowski directed the 2017 documentary 'Chasing Coral.' Coral reefs worldwide vanish fast. A team of divers, photographers, and scientists undertook an ocean adventure. They sought to find out why and show the underwater mystery to the public.

The 11th Hour marks the final chance for change. Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, and R. James Woolsey, a former CIA director, discuss world problems with over 50 other scientists, scholars, and leaders. Specialists show how human actions affect Earth's ecosystems and what stops the damage before it's too late for the planet. Leonardo DiCaprio narrates.