Some Documentaries You Might Wanna Watch!

Below are some online documentaries and hard copy documentaries that you should definitely try to watch/get your hands on!

Online features: 

Sierra Club Beyond Coal playlist: These 10 videos add up to about 12 min on one DVD. This is the best of Sierra Club's online coal videos from break-dancers for Beyond Coal to Ashley Judd speaking out against mountaintop removing mining to the Coal is Too Dirty for College video series.

Deep Down impact video: (6 min) shows how film is being used to connect communities and build solidarity.  

Dirty Business: (15 min) excerpt online.

I Live Near Coal: (6 min) short on health effects of coal.

Low Coal: (85 min) The story of the mountaintop removal activists featured in Coal Country, the year after.

Feature Documentaries: 
Coal Country: Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller's documentary reveals how Americans' hunger for cheap energy has fueled the destruction of the oldest mountains on the continent, and of a culture deeply rooted in the American soul.

Dirty Business:"Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future: Produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, the film investigates the true cost of our dependence on coal for electricity in the age of climate change.

Journey to Planet Earth: Plan B: Hosted by Matt Damon featuring Lester Brown, environmental visionary and author of Plan B, this documentary delivers a clear and unflinching message -- either confront the realities of climate change or suffer the consequences of lost civilizations and failed political states.

Carbon Nation: This film is a feature length documentary about climate change solutions. Carbon Nation is an optimistic discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or slow down) the impending climate crisis.

The Dirty Truth About Coal: This is a half-hour documentary film about the effects of emissions from coal-fired power plants on public health. Please note it will not be available until Oct. 1st.

On Coal River: This film takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia -- a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it. Click here for the screening guide.

Kilowatt Ours: Kilowatt Ours is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America's most pressing environmental challenges: energy. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, "You can easily make a difference and here’s how!"

Energy Film Trailers: 

Sun Come Up Trailer: (2 min) Sun Come Up is an ACADEMY AWARD® nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. The film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees.

Cape Spin Trailer: (4 min) Cape Spin is a feature documentary about the epic battle over the Cape Wind project, America's first offshore wind farm proposed for the storied waters of Nantucket Sound.

The Battle for Blair Mountain: (11 min) Blair Mountain is under threat of Mountaintop Removal mining. The focal point of the 1921 mine wars, this historic center of labor rights has not gotten the protection it deserves.