Some notable and commercially successful films have featured environmental themes[1] and are commemorated through several environmental film festivals held annually. The Annual Environmental Media Awards have been presented by the Environmental Media Association (EMA) since 1991 to the best television episode or film with an environmental message.[2]
! Title! Theme(s) and subtheme(s)! Author(s)! Year(s)| The 11th Hour | Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, social responsibility, Conservation movement | Nadia Conners, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Leila Conners Petersen | 2007 |
| All That Breathes | Air pollution | Shaunak Sen | 2022 |
| Angry Inuk | Hunting seal hunting
| Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 2016 |
| Anima mundi | WWF | Godfrey Reggio | 1991 |
| The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning | Climate Change research in Antarctica | Mark Terry | 2009 |
| How humans have impacted the planet | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky | 2019 |
| Ashes to Honey | Nuclear power radiation
| Hitomi Kamanaka | 2011 |
| Baraka | Natural phenomena, Human behavior | Ron Fricke | 1992 |
| Before the Flood | Global Climate Change | Mark Monroe | 2016 |
| Before Vanishing | Water pollution Barada (river)
| Joude Gorani | 2005 |
| The Bell of Chernobyl | Chernobyl nuclear disaster | Rollan Sergienko | 1987 |
| Bhopal Express | Air pollution from a pesticide factory
| Prasoon Pandey and Piyush Pandey | 1999 |
| Bigger Than Us | Various themes | Flore Vasseur and Melati Wijsen | 2021 |
| | David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg | 2017 |
| Biùtiful cauntri | Pollution: toxic waste dumping in Southern Italy | Esmeralda Calabria and Andrea D'Ambrosio | 2007 |
| Black Hole | Coal mining Australia
| João Dujon Pereira | 2015 |
| Blue Vinyl | Pollution production and disposal of polyvinyl chloride
| Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand | 2002 |
| Mining: mountaintop removal mining | David Novack and Richard Hankin | 2008 |
| The Burning Season (1994) | Forests Amazon rainforest
| William Mastrosimone | 1994 |
| The Burning Season (2008) | Forests deforestation in Indonesia
| Cathy Henkel | 2008 |
| Butterfly | Environmentalism: resisting clearcutting | Doug Wolens | 2000 |
| Introduced species cane toads in Australia
| Mark Lewis | 2010 |
| Introduced species cane toads in Australia
| Mark Lewis | 1988 |
| The Chances of the World Changing | Endangered species turtles
| Eric Daniel Metzgar | 2006 |
| Chasing Ice | Global warming | James Balog | 2012 |
| Chasing Coral | Global warming, Coral bleaching, Climate Change | Jeff Orlowski | 2017 |
| Chernobyl Heart | Chernobyl disaster acute radiation syndrome
| Maryann DeLeo | 2003 |
| Children of Tsunami: No More Tears | Natural disasters 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
| Satya Sivaraman, Nur Raihan, Suren de Silva, and Pipope Panitchpakdi | 2005 |
| The City Dark | Light pollution | Ian Cheney | 2011 |
| Climate Refugees | Climate change effects on natural resources
| Michael P. Nash | 2010 |
| Climate Warriors | Climate change, renewable energy | Carl-A. Fechner | 2018 |
| Clouds of Smoke | Global warming | Fatmir Terziu | 2007 |
| Colombia Magia Salvaje | Colombian biodiversity and environmental protection | Mike Slee | 2015 |
| The Cove | Hunting dolphin drive hunting
| Mark Monroe | 2009 |
| Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | Animal husbandry, policies of environmental organizations, global warming, water use, deforestation, and ocean dead zones, | Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn | 2014 |
| Crude (2007) | Petroleum industry peak oil and climate change
| Richard Smith | 2007 |
| Crude (2009) | Petroleum industry pollution and class action
| Joe Berlinger | 2009 |
| Peak oil, Petroleum industry | Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack | 2006 |
| Dark Waters | Water Pollution Chemical Industry, Class Action
| Nathaniel Rich, Mario Correa, Matthew Michael Carnahan | 2019 |
| Darwin's Nightmare | Lake Victoria | Hubert Sauper | 2004 |
| Petroleum industry Exxon Valdez oil spill, United States Environmental Protection Agency, disaster response
| Paul Seed | 1992 |
| Energy: nuclear weapons | Debra Chasnoff | 1991 |
| Déserts en Europe : les apprentis sorciers ! | | Patrick Benquet | 1994 |
| Dreamland | Dams: Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant in Iceland | Þorfinnur Guðnason, Andri Snær Magnason | 2009 |
| Air pollution from September 11 attacks, United States Environmental Protection Agency
| Heidi Dehncke-Fisher | 2006 |
| Earth | Environmental change effects on three particular species
| Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, and Leslie Megahey | 2007 |
| Earth Days | Environmentalism environmental movement in the United States
| Robert Stone | 2009 |
| Hunting anti-whaling
| Trish Dolman | 2011 |
| Elemental | Water pollution Ganges River
| Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Gayatri Roshan | 2012 |
| The End of Eden | Environmental degradation cattle ranching
| Rick Lomba | 1986 |
| Fight for the Planet | Global warming, Social responsibility | Colin Carter | 2009 |
| Food, farming, natural farming, biophilia | Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kang | 2015 |
| Flow: For Love of Water | Water privatization big business and the natural environment
| Irena Salina, Steven Starr | 2008 |
| Food, Inc. | Agriculture corporate farming, Sustainable agriculture, meat industry, Intensive farming, food labelling regulations
| Robert Kenner | 2009 |
| Forbidden Forest | Forests sustainable forest management
| Kevin W. Matthews | 2004 |
| Forests for the 21st Century | Forests reforestation, carbon emissions
| Forestry Commission of Great Britain, IUCN | 2009 |
| The Forgotten District | Forests ecotourism in Belize
| Oliver Dickinson | 2008 |
| Energy renewable energy
| Carl-A. Fechner | 2010 |
| Fractured Land | Environmentalism awareness of hydraulic fracturing, First Nations
| Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis | 2015 |
| The Future of Food | Agriculture genetically modified food
| Deborah Koons Garcia | 2004 |
| Garbage Warrior | Garbage Warrior | Oliver Hodge | 2007 |
| Global warming | Alanis Morissette | 2005 |
| Global warming | Nicolas Brown | 2006 |
| GMO OMG | Genetically modified organisms, Monsanto | Jeremy Seifert, Elizabeth Kucinich | 2013 |
| The Great Global Warming Swindle | Global warming climate change denial
| Martin Durkin | 2007 |
| The Great Warming | Global warming politics of global warming, Climate change mitigation, Climate change policy of the United States
| Michael Taylor | 2006 |
| Greenpeace : les commandos de l'écologie | Greenpeace | Jean-Pierre Hosatte | 1995 |
| General environment of Haida Gwaii, Rising sea level, natural disaster, climate change | Charles Wilkinson | 2015 |
| Haulout (short) | Global warming, Walruses, Impacts on marine mammals | Maxim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva | 2022 |
| Home | Various themes | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | 2009 |
| How to Change the World | Environmentalism Greenpeace
| Jerry Rothwell | 2015 |
| Ice and the Sky | Global warming: Antarctic | Luc Jacquet | 2015 |
| The Idiot Cycle | Chemical industry genetically modified organisms
| Emmanuelle Schick Garcia | 2009 |
| Forests eco-terrorism
| Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamacheck | 2011 |
| If You Love This Planet | Nuclear weapons, Nuclear power in the United States, Nuclear policy of the United States | Terre Nash | 1982 |
| Climate change activity of Al Gore
| Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk | 2017 |
| An Inconvenient Truth | Global warming | Al Gore | 2006 |
| An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction? | Global warming | Steven F. Hayward | 2007 |
| Journey to the Safest Place on Earth | Radioactive waste | Edgar Hagen | 2013 |
| La Jungle plate | Wadden Sea | Johan van der Keuk | 1978 |
| Laloorinu Parayanullathu | Environment of India municipal waste in Laloor
| Sathish Kalathil | 2012 |
| The Last Animals | Endangered species | Kate Brooks | 2017 |
| Endangered species | Eugen Schuhmacher | 1967 |
| March of the Penguins | Wildlife: Emperor penguins | Luc Jacquet, National Geographic | 2005 |
| Material Of The Future | Controversies of plastic recycling, plastic pollution, plastic industry, bioplastics | Vern Moen | 2014 |
| The Messenger | Songbirds: bird conservation | Su Rynard | 2015 |
| Water pollution mercury poisoning
| Noriaki Tsuchimoto | 1971 |
| Mountaintop Removal (film) | Mining mountaintop removal mining
| Michael O'Connell | 2007 |
| No Impact Man | Sustainability sustainable living
| | 2009 |
| No Pressure | Climate change mitigation | Richard Curtis and Franny Armstrong | 2010 |
| Oil on Ice | Petroleum industry Arctic Refuge drilling controversy
| Stephen Most | 2004 |
| Oil Sands Karaoke | Petroleum industry oil sands of Alberta
| | 2013 |
| On the Line | Petroleum industry Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines
| Frank Wolf | 2011 |
| Out of Balance | ExxonMobil funding climate change deniers climate change
| Tom Jackson | 2006 |
| Pandora's Promise | Nuclear power and climate change | Robert Stone | 2013 |
| Plogoff, des pierres contre des fusils | Anti-nuclear movement | | 1980 |
| The Polar Explorer | Climate Change research in the Arctic's Northwest Passage and Antarctica | Mark Terry | 2010 |
| Polluting Paradise | Waste management in Turkey
| Fatih Akın | 2012 |
| Peak oil anti-consumerism, urban agriculture, energy dependence, and sustainability
| Faith Morgan | 2006 |
| The Redwoods | Forests protection of redwoods
| Trevor Greenwood, Mark Jonathan Harris | 1967 |
| Power to Change - The Energy Rebellion | renewable energy, energy transition, global warming | Carl-A. Fechner | 2016 |
| Energy renewable energy
| David Chernushenko | 2010 |
| Raoni | The life of Raoni Metuktire. The film portrays issues surrounding on Kayapo people and the Amazon rainforest. | Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha | 1978 |
| Renewal | Environmentalism environmental movement in the United States, religious-environmental movement
| Marty Ostrow, Terry Kay Rockefeller | 2008 |
| The Return of Navajo Boy | Uranium mining in the United States, environmental racism, uranium pollution | Jeff Spitz | 2000 |
| Revenge of the Electric Car | Sustainable design electric cars
| Chris Paine and P.G. Morgan | 2011 |
| Revolution | Various themes, including environmental collapse | Rob Stewart | 2012 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes (short) | Various themes, including ice age and anthropogenic change | Bill Mason, National Film Board of Canada | 1968 |
| Sea of Life | Various themes, including ocean acidification and overfishing | Julia Barnes | 2016 |
| Search for the Super Battery | Energy energy storage devices, including batteries
| Daniel McCabe | 2017[3] |
| Water pollution Camp Lejeune water contamination
| Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon | 2011 |
| Sexy Killers | Environmental impact of the coal industry in Indonesia | Dandhy Dwi Laksono and Ucok Suparta | 2019 |
| Sharkwater | Endangered species sharks
| Rob Stewart | 2007 |
| The Shiranui Sea | Water pollution mercury poisoning
| Noriaki Tsuchimoto | 1975 |
| Shored Up | Weather Hurricane Sandy: rising sea level
| Ben Kalina | 2013 |
| Silent Storm | Nuclear weapons testing radioactive contamination
| Peter Butt | 2003 |
| Spoiled the Movie | Energy environmental impact of the energy industry, problems with alternative energy, etc.
| Kevin Miller | 2011 |
| The Story of Stuff | Product lifecycle management anti-consumerism
| Annie Leonard | 2007 |
| Surviving the Tsunami - My Atomic Aunt | Nuclear power Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
| Kyoko Miyake | 2013 |
| Agriculture agrochemicals
| Jean-Paul Jaud | 2008 |
| This Changes Everything | Climate change. Companion project of the book by Naomi Klein | Avi Lewis | 2015 |
| Tomorrow (Demain) | Sustainable communities | Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent | 2015 |
| The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Disaster | Air pollution from September 11 attacks
| Alison Johnson | 2006 |
| Toxic Legacy | Air pollution from September 11 attacks
| Susan Teskey | 2006 |
| Waste management landfills
| Alison O'Brien, Carl Quintanilla | 2010 |
| The True Cost | Garment industry, consumerism, river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, fair trade, sustainable clothing | Andrew Morgan | 2015 |
| Ultimate Tornado | Unusually violent tornadoes in the United States | National Geographic Channel | 2006 |
| Unacceptable Levels | Environmental toxicology | Edward Brown | 2013 |
| Under the Dome | Air pollution in China | Chai Jing | 2015 |
| Vanishing of the Bees | Honey bees: colony collapse disorder | Maryam Henein, George Langworthy, and James Erskine | 2009 |
| Vanishing Point | Climate change Arctic sea ice decline
| Marina Endicott and others | 2012 |
| Virunga | Wildlife conservation Democratic Republic of the Congo
| Orlando von Einsiedel | 2014 |
| Voices of Transition | Agriculture energy and resource scarcity
| Nils Aguilar | 2012 |
| Walking Through A Minefield | Uranium mining in Australia | Cathy Henkel | 1999 |
| Watch | Forests clearcutting
| Briana Waters | 2001 |
| Watermark | Water | Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky | 2013 |
| Various themes: peak oil, climate change, overpopulation, and species extinction | Timothy S. Bennett | 2007 |
| What Is the Electric Car? | Sustainable design electric cars
| Ken Grant and Scott DuPont | 2010 |
| Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki acute radiation syndrome
| Steven Okazaki | 2007 |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | Sustainable design electric cars and roles of industries and governments
| Chris Paine | 2006 |
| Wind Over Water: The Cape Wind Story | Energy: Cape Wind | Ole Tangen Jr. | 2003 |
| Windfall | Wind power environmental impact of wind power
| Laura Israel | 2010 |
| The World According to Monsanto | Agriculture Monsanto
| Marie-Monique Robin | 2008 |
| The Plow That Broke the Plains | Dust Bowl | Pare Lorentz | 1936 |
| The River | Erosion Mississippi River
| Pare Lorentz | 1938 |
| De platte jungle/Flat Jungle | Wadden Sea, overfishing, nuclear energy, water pollution, Overexploitation | Johan van der Keuken | 1978 |
| The Atomic Cafe | Nuclear warfare | Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty | 1982 |
| Koyaanisqatsi | Various themes, including natural landscape, urbanization, development | Godfrey Reggio with Philip Glass | 1982 |
| Trashed | Waste and pollution of air, land and sea | Candida Brady | 2012 | |
