Theater & Screen

What can theater and screen do?

Movies, documentaries, television, and the stage have been staples in our culture for communicating ideas, fears, happiness, and hopes. Every genre of the theater and screen can provide powerful tools to explore the implications of climate chaos and help us to imagine solutions for a better future.

Movies

Soylent Green (1973)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
WALL-E (2006)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Interstellar (2014)
Okja (2017)
First Reformed (2017)
mother! (2017)
Fast Color (2019)
Don't Look Up (2021)

Television

Years of Living Dangerously (2014, 2016)
One Strange Rock (2018-)
Our Planet (2019)
Ice on Fire (2019)
Years and Years (2019)
Wildlife Warriors (2020)

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Stage Plays

11 Environmentally-Focused Plays
- Includes brief summaries of the plays, as well as links to licensing and purchasing of play scripts
List of Climate Change Plays
- A compilation from Artists & Climate Change of known climate-related stage plays, puppet shows, and musicals/operas

Climate Change Theater Action

"Founded in 2015, Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings."

Documentaries

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Taking Root (2008)
Chasing Ice (2012)
Earth: The Operator's Manual (2012)
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
Antarctica: Ice and Sky (2015)
Racing Extinction (2015)
This Changes Everything (2015)
The True Cost (2015)
River Blue (2016)
Before the Flood (2016)
Chasing Coral (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
Thank You For the Rain (2017)
Doughnut Economics (2018)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
Cooked: Survival by Zipcode (2019)
The Hottest August (2019)
2040 (2019)
Generation Green New Deal (2020)
I Am Greta (2020)
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020)
Kiss the Ground (2020)
Meltdown (2021)