Film Library
Showing films can be a great way to open climate conversations in your congregation, and we can help you select a film, obtain a DVD or streaming link, and plan or facilitate a conversation to call your community to action after the film.
Be in touch if you see a film below you’d like to show, are looking for something specific, or would like us to facilitate a conversation: program @ ipldmv.org.
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Cedar Lane UU gathers to watch Church of the Wild.
Recently Featured Films
Youth v Gov
2020, 1 hr 50 mins
YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to 25, who are taking on the world’s most powerful government. Since 2015, the legal non-profit Our Children’s Trust, has been representing these youth in their landmark case against the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, personal safety, and property through their willful actions in creating the climate crisis they will inherit. (Credit: https://www.youthvgovfilm.com/)
Young Voices for the Planet
2015, 1 hr 29 mins
The Young Voices For The Planet short films document inspiring success stories of kids shrinking their carbon footprint, finding solutions to the global warming crisis, banning plastic bags, planting trees, reducing waste, experiencing the excitement of scientific discovery through citizen-science, and conducting energy audits that save energy and money.
Renewal
2007, 1 hr 30 mins
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
This Changes Everything
2015, 1hr 31 minutes
Filmed across five continents, this film, inspired by Naomi Klein’s international
non-fiction bestseller of the same name, makes an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. It presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Alberta’s Tar Sands to the southern coast of India, interwoven with Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Her controversial and exciting idea is that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Directed and produced by Avi Lewis.
2012, 1 hr 15 minutes
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
2006, 1 hr 36 minutes
A passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. With an emphasis on hope, An Inconvenient Truth ultimately shows us that global warming is no longer a political issue, but rather the biggest moral challenge facing our civilization today.