Earth Day 2024
The Red Turtle
(La tortue rouge)
Come discover the magic of nature...
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- France, Belgium, Japan • 2016
- Director Michael Dudok de Wit
- Cast Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy, Axel Devillers, Barbara Beretta
- Genre Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Antarctica: Ice & Sky
(La glace et le ciel)
Portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius, whose groundbreaking research gave us the first clear evidence of man-made climate change.
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- France • 2015
- Director Luc Jacquet
- Cast Claude Lorius, Michel Papineschi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex,
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
(Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues)
An epic adventure at ground level.
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- France, Belgium • 2013
- Director Thomas Szabo
- Cast
- Genre Animation, Adventure, Family
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex,
Bestiary
(Bestiaire)
When we observe animals, they also observe us.
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- Canada, France • 2012
- Director Denis Côté
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, OVID, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spamflix, Kanopy
Winter Nomads
(Hiver Nomade)
Two shepherds in Switzerland move 800 sheep 600km over four months with the help of three donkeys and four dogs.
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- Switzerland, France, Germany • 2012
- Director Manuel von Stürler
- Cast Pascal Eguisier, Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Océans
What wonders await under the surface of the oceans?
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- France, Switzerland, Spain • 2009
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Pierce Brosnan, Lancelot Perrin
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Modern Life
(Profils Paysans, Chapitre 3: La vie moderne)
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon turns his camera on the farming community of the Cévennes region in southern France.
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- France • 2008
- Director Raymond Depardon
- Cast Paul Argaud, Marcel Challaye, Germaine Challaye, Jacques Chirac
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
March of the Penguins
(La Marche de l'empereur)
In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.
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- France • 2005
- Director Luc Jacquet
- Cast Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Morgan Freeman, Torsten Michaelis, Andrea-Kathrin Loewig
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Winged Migration
(Le peuple migrateur)
Five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through forty countries and across each of the seven continents.
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- France, Germany, Switzerland • 2001
- Director Jacques Perrin
- Cast Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV
Animals and More Animals
(Un animal, des animaux)
A unique look into the work behind the animal displays of the Paris Museum of Natural history.
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- France • 1994
- Director Nicolas Philibert
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
The Bear
(L'Ours)
He is an orphan at the start of a journey -- a journey to survive.
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- France, United States • 1988
- Director Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Cast Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
- Available on Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV
The Snails
(Les escargots)
A farmer goes to extreme lengths to get his plants to grow - but they aren't the only things growing.
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- France • 1966
- Director René Laloux
- Cast
- Genre Animation, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel