ReelGreen Film Guide

sample guide*please note we do not distribute these films

Oceans (sample films)

Ancient Sea Turtles Stranded in a Modern World - The use of TEDs in shrimpers' nets would allow sea turtles to escape. (Bullfrog Films)

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets - Examines the global marine fisheries crisis and the efforts to implement sustainable fishing practices. (Distributor - Bullfrog films)

Farming the Seas - The perils and promise of fish farms in a world running out of ocean fish stocks. (Bullfrog Films)

Fisheries - Beyond The Crisis - (Bullfrog Films)

Keepers of the Coast - Surfers Organize to save the oceans (Bullfrog Films)

Net Loss: The Storm Over Salmon Farming -Examines the controversy surrounding salmon farms, and the threat they pose to wild salmon. (Bullfrog Films)

Silent Sentinels - Was the unprecedented mass coral bleaching in 1998 proof of global warming? (Bullfrog Films)

Soil/FoodBroken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer - Looks at the plight of apple growers in the age of globalization, and points the way to sustainable US agriculture. (Bullfrog Films)\

How To Save The World - One Man, One Cow, One Planet (soil, perimaculture, organic farming, sustainability) (Green Planet Films) ****

King Corn - By growing an acre of corn in Iowa two friends uncover the devastating impact that corn is having on the environment, public health and family farms. (Bullfrog Films)

McLibel - Two People Who Wouldn't Say Sorry - The new feature-length version and final chapter in the saga of the postman and the gardener who took on McDonald's. And won. ***

Not for Sale - Examines the disturbing new corporate practice of patenting life forms.

The Real Dirt on Farmer John - Follows Farmer John’s astonishing journey from farm boy to counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement and founder of one of the nation’s largest Community Supported Agriculture farms. ****

The Future of Food - offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. ****

Consumerism/EnergyAffluenza - Diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living. (Bullfrog Films)

Black Diamonds - Mountaintop Removal & The Fight For Coalfield Justice. (Bullfrog)

Buyer Be Fair - The Promise of Product Certification - Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment. (Bullfrog Films) ****

Lovins on the Soft Path - An Energy Future with a Future - Hunter and Amory Lovins make the case for energy efficiency and energy conservation. (Bullfrog Films)

Oil on Ice - Connects the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to critical decisions about energy policy. (Bullfrog Films) **

RADICALLY simple - Author Jim Merkel leads by example on the path to simple and sustainable living. (Bullfrog Films)

The Bomb Under the World - What are the consequences of consumerism taking hold in developing countries like India? (Bullfrog Films)

Climate ChangeA Land Out of Time - Time is running out for vast swaths of the Rocky Mountain West as the Bush/Cheney Administration turns over millions of acres of public land for oil & gas drilling. Westerners on the land for generations expose the dramatic changes to the landscape and their heritage and spark a backlash. Just who is in charge of our public lands, the oil & gas industry or the American people?

Everything's Cool - Examines the media strategies, on both sides, that have resulted in the US government's failure to take decisive action on global warming. (Bullfrog Films) ****

An Inconvienent Truth (Paramount Classics)

The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet - Dr. Mathis Wackernagel introduces the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures human demand on the Earth. (Bullfrog Films)

Our Oil: Africa now rivals the Persian Gulf as the top oil supplier, but in the past year a 100 oil workers have been kidnapped by Niger Delta Militias. (Chicken & Egg Pictures)

Who Killed The Electric Car? (Sony Classics)

11th Hour - Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio (Warner Bros. Green Initiative)

DeForestation

Fury for the Sound - The Women at Clayoquot; Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound. (Bullfrog Films) ****

Our Vanishing Forests - The history and policies of the U.S. Forest Service. (Bullfrog Films)

The Rainforest - The ecology of a rainforest. (Bullfrog Films)

Forest for the Trees - Story of how the long-time civil rights attorney who fought and won the court battle against the US gov’t for the bombing of Earth First Activist Judy Bari. (Chicken & Egg Pictures) ****

Redwood Summer - Documents both sides in the summer of struggle between environmentalists vs. loggers and timber companies. (Bullfrog Films)

The Salmon Forest - Reveals the fragile connection between salmon, bears, trees, and people in the NW rainforest.

Saviors of the Forest - How eco-business is saving rainforests. (Bullfrog Films) ****

Toxic PollutionBlue Vinyl - Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl. (Bullfrog Films)

Borderline Cases - Environmental Matters at the United States-Mexico Border. (Bullfrog Films)

Homeland -Four Portraits of Native Action Tells the inspiring story of four battles in which Native American activists are fighting to preserve their land, sovereignty, and culture. (Bullfrog Films)

Hopi Land - The Hopi fight to preserve their land and water from strip mining. (Bullfrog Films)

Texas Gold: One Woman’s Fight in the Most Toxic Place in America! The Story of Diane Wilson (Green Planet Films)

Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer - Explores the relationship between breast cancer and exposure to toxic chemicals. (Bullfrog Films)

Up Close and Toxic - Examines the alarming levels of pollutants inside our homes and suggests ways to reduce them. (Bullfrog Films)

Living Species

Wildlife for Sale: Dead or Alive - astern and Western attitudes towards animals lead to disastrous wildlife trade. (Bullfrog Films)

Cull of the Wild: The Truth behind Trapping - The argument for ending animal trapping for profit, recreation or wildlife management. (Bullfrog Films)

The Disenchanted Forest - Endangered orphan orangutans are rehabilitated and returned to their rainforest home. (Bullfrog Films)

Endangered Species: The Elephant - Misunderstood by most, the elephant is actually one of the most intelligent mammals on earth. On a reserve in Tennessee, Carol Buckley provides ease and comfort to retired circus elephants while in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Joyce Poole studies the elephant's language and struggles to keep this miraculous animal from vanishing off the face of the earth.

The Chances of the World Changing - An artist abandons his life's work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A marathon story creates a new breed of dramatic nature film: about time, death, art, love...and turtles. (Docurama Films)

Freshwater

A Drop of Life: The struggle for access to clean drinking water http://www.chickeneggpics.org/ces.html (Chicken and Egg Pictures) ***

Drinking Water - The most endangered resource on the planet (Green Planet Films)

Flow: For the Love of Water - highlights the local intimacies of an emerging global catastrophe: African plumbers reconnect shantytown water pipes under cover of darkness to ensure a community's survival; a Californian scientist forces awareness of shockingly toxic public water sources; a ‘Big Water’ CEO argues privatization is the wave of the future; a “Water Guru” in India sparks new community water initiatives in hundreds of villages; a Canadian author uncovers the corporate profiteering that drives global water business. http://www.flowthefilm.com/ ****

Thirst - A piercing look at the global corporate drive to control and profit from our water -- from bottles to tap. (Bullfrog Films)

Solution Films

French Fries to Go - Biofuels

Kilowatt Ours

Power Shift

Oil & Water Project by Seth Warren - Last year, professional kayaker and Athlete With a Cause, Seth Warren traveled 35,000 kilometers, through 16 countries and across two continents spreading the word and vision of what it means to live an alternative way of life. With his close friend Tyler Bradt, he paddled countless rivers, some of which were the biggest on the planet.

Recycled Life - From the toxic depths of the largest landfill in central america arises a beautiful story of the human spirit

Solar Decatholon (Rahus Institute Films)

Turning the Tide - How communities can restore local habitat

The Power of community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil