Highest-Rated Movies about 'Environmentalist', Sort by Popularity

Woman at War (2018), Mission Blue (2014), The Story of Plastic (2019), Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008), Percy Vs Goliath (2020), Crude (2009), Pripyat (1999), If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Environmentalist movies.

#16. This Changes Everything (2015)

Storyline: What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.—Production

Plot Keywords: environmentalist, activist, climatologist, bleak, inspiring, montana, greece ...

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#17. Big Miracle (2012)

Storyline: October, 1988. Adam Carlson, a reporter for a local Anchorage television station, is currently in Barrow doing a series of pieces on the "local cultural color" of northern Alaska. While out on the sea ice filming a less than promising piece, he spots off in the distance what ends up being three California gray whales - a mother, father and son - who are literally imprisoned by ice which has surrounded them in the earlier than usual onset of winter. They are looking worse for wear as they have been ramming the ice surface to maintain a hole in the ice to be able to breathe and thus survive. The professional and cultural assessment he receives is that the whales, in their current situation, cannot survive for more than a few days, with the ice fives miles in distance to the open ocean with a vertical ice shelf that has developed midway. Adam's piece on the whales not only gets played on his station, but is picked up by news services throughout the States, including the national ...

Plot Keywords: reporter, ex-girlfriend, governor, soldier, environmentalist, inspiring, alaska ...

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#18. Freaked (1993)

Storyline: A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds himself at a mutant freak farm. Elijah, who runs the farm, is only too happy to have new subjects on which to try his freak machine. The very chemical that Ricky is supposed to promote is the one responsible for creating the great variety of freaks.—Christine Sai-Halasz <sai@mit.edu>

Plot Keywords: celebrity, comedian, environmentalist, spokesman, scientist, mutant, amusing ...

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#19. Avalanche (1999)

Storyline: A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two years later, the wife takes on a corporation which wants to extend an oil pipeline across the tundra above Juneau. She is convinced that this will cause an avalanche on the town. Of course, she is rejected by the corporation executives. She recruits the pilot to try to aid her, but with no success.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

Plot Keywords: pretty woman, environmentalist, pilot, townsperson, tense, spirited, alaska ...

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#21. Cold Zone (2016)

Storyline: Unexplained deaths of migratory birds and several other baffling disappearances blemish the Alaskan vacation of the inquisitive ornithologist, Dr Roger Summers, and his family while visiting the cold winter retreat of Pemberton. Unable to come up with a logical explanation, Roger joins forces with the reclusive environmental scientist, Dr Tim Hughes, whose ideas and grave warnings of an impending frozen Armageddon were mocked by the scientific community. Now, the two men must warn everyone about the deadly phenomenon that threatens to devour the globe, to save as many as possible. Is the world facing a second Ice Age?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: scientist, environmentalist, recluse, family member, government official, civilian, brooding ...

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