Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "environmental-activist"

1. First Reformed (2017)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric The Entertainer, Victoria Hill

Votes: 62,755 | Gross: $3.45M

2. The East (2013)

PG-13 | 116 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.

Director: Zal Batmanglij | Stars: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Elliot Page, Toby Kebbell

Votes: 52,429 | Gross: $2.27M

3. Promised Land (2012)

R | 106 min | Drama

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook

Votes: 39,962 | Gross: $7.60M

4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 10,221

5. Black Sheep (2006)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis, Matthew Chamberlain

Votes: 42,147 | Gross: $0.08M

6. Naughty (2023)

107 min | Drama, Romance

A ecology student destroys a construction head's plans for an old forest park. Intrigued, he bets seven romantic days with her; if she leaves, he will give up his plans for the park. She accepts, but finds he challenges her preconceptions.

Director: Dmitriy Suvorov | Stars: Marat Abdrakhimov, Kirill Arsenyev, Semyon Arzumanov, Anton Belov

Votes: 917

7. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror.

Director: Crispian Mills | Stars: Jassa Ahluwalia, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Finn Cole

Votes: 16,317 | Gross: $0.00M

8. The Cove (2009)

PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff

Votes: 51,496 | Gross: $0.87M

9. Night Moves (2013)

R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat

Votes: 16,732 | Gross: $0.25M

10. The Hunter (IV) (2011)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman

Votes: 41,190 | Gross: $0.18M

11. Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)

83 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

A flock of sea eagles attack the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California. Why did the birds attack? Who will survive?

Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Ryan Lord, Julia Culbert, Marc DeNola, Alan Bagh

Votes: 416

12. The Odyssey (2016)

PG | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.

Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas

Votes: 6,201

13. Kona fer í stríð (2018)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson

Votes: 11,327 | Gross: $0.85M

14. Spoor (2017)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny

Votes: 6,051

15. Class Rank (2017)

Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.

Director: Eric Stoltz | Stars: Skyler Gisondo, Olivia Holt, Kristin Chenoweth, Bruce Dern

Votes: 1,689

16. School's Out (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel

Votes: 3,121

17. Parasite (2004)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A cleaning fluid experiment on an oil rig turns disastrous when a worker goes missing and eco-activists seize the rig, before a dangerous new creature forces workers and activists to band together.

Director: Andrew Prendergast | Stars: Gary Condés, Saskia Gould, Conrad Whitaker, G.W. Stevens

Votes: 689

18. Racing Extinction (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton

Votes: 8,205

19. I Am Greta (2020)

TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography

The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.

Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres

Votes: 8,388

20. Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser (2019)

142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser tries to save the nomadic Penan tribe from deforestation in Borneo.

Director: Niklaus Hilber | Stars: Sven Schelker, Nick Kelesau, Elizabeth Ballang, Matthew Crowley

Votes: 558

21. Fubar: Balls to the Wall (2010)

R | 85 min | Comedy

Terry and Dean head north to make sweet cash in the oil patch.

Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: David Lawrence, Jamil Jabril, Terra Hazelton, Paul Spence

Votes: 1,761

22. Atomic Homefront (2017)

TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary

A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.

Director: Rebecca Cammisa | Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey, Kay Drey

Votes: 571

23. Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Simon Jackson fights to save the endagered Spirit Bear from extinction by going up against the foresting industry.

Director: Stefan Scaini | Stars: Mark Rendall, Graham Greene, Katie Stuart, Ed Begley Jr.

Votes: 277

24. Dolores (I) (2017)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Director: Peter Bratt | Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez, Ricardo S. Chavez

Votes: 377 | Gross: $0.56M

25. Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's.

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Marsha Mason, Bob Gunton, Penny Fuller, Roberta Maxwell

Votes: 67

26. Ghost Rig (2003)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Environmental activists encounter a mysterious and deadly presence.

Director: Julian Kean | Stars: Jaason Simmons, Bryan Carney, Juliet Diamond, Kerry Norton

Votes: 695

27. Something Beneath (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Just under your feet lurks an evil so deadly, so intelligent, it's scary. The attendees of an ecological summit are about to discover a bigger problem than global warming.

Director: David Winning | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Peter MacNeill, Natalie Brown, Brendan Beiser

Votes: 979

28. Mining for Ruby (2017)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A widower dealing with his depression falls for an environmental activist.

Director: Zoe Quist | Stars: Mischa Barton, Jonathan Bennett, Billy Zane, Antoinette Kalaj

Votes: 455

29. Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

This punchy, adrenaline-fuelled documentary lifts the lid on climate activism and the troublemakers who dare to cross the line.

Director: Emily James | Star: James Leadbitter

Votes: 110

30. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

Unrated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.'

Directors: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman | Stars: Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, Tim Lewis, Kirk Engdall

Votes: 3,319 | Gross: $0.06M

31. Burn Up (2008)

Drama

An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.

Stars: Bradley Whitford, Neve Campbell, Rupert Penry-Jones, Marc Warren

Votes: 554

32. Crisis (1997)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama

Alex reluctantly collects debts for the mob. Alex has led his brother Tony to believe that he is a shoe-salesman. However Alex's real talents will be desperately needed as the story unfolds... See full summary »

Director: Jalal Merhi | Stars: David Bradley, Brad Milne, Thorsten Nickel, Cameron Mitchell Jr.

Votes: 135

33. The Airzone Solution (1993 Video)

65 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a future London suffering from toxic air pollution, a reporter, his mentor, a weatherman and an environmental activist discover they are connected and set out to expose the corrupt Airzone Corporation.

Director: Bill Baggs | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Heather Tracy

Votes: 206

34. Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution (2021 TV Movie)

89 min | Biography, Drama, History

19-year-old Franka Blankenstein grew up as a child of systematic parents in Leipzig. By chance she met the geriatric nurse Stefan Clausnitz and thus found her way into an environmental ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Timur Bartels, Fred Costea, Janina Fautz, Inka Friedrich

Votes: 150

35. The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)

87 min | Documentary

The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant causes deformed births and deadly cancers. Two heroic women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable.

Directors: Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna | Stars: Carol Van Strum, Bruce Anderson, To Nga Tran, William Bourdon

Votes: 126

36. A Crack in the Mountain (2022)

100 min | Documentary

A small, impoverished Vietnamese community struggles to deal with the opportunity and challenges that arise when Hang Son Doong, the largest cave in the world and a place of extraordinary natural beauty is discovered nearby.

Director: Alastair Evans | Stars: Huong Nguyen Thien Le, Adam Spillane, Howard Limbert, Giang Hoang Dang

Votes: 31

37. Tellus (2014)

300 min | Crime, Drama

Tellus, a Finnish environmental group led by Eevi Forsman, use increasingly radical means to "save the earth". They are pursued by Taneli Lokka, an experienced police detective who tries to save the earth in his own personal way.

Stars: Minka Kuustonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Henrik Hammarberg

Votes: 242

38. Yöjuna (1996)

86 min | Mystery, Thriller

Young Ari Nykänen joins a board of inquiry investigating a mysterious freight train accident which at first seems just a case of vandalism. Ari delves deeper into the case and discovers a ... See full summary »

Director: Arto Lehkamo | Stars: Santeri Kinnunen, Vera Kiiskinen, Minna Soisalo, Åke Lindman

Votes: 215

39. Gator King (1997)

R | 86 min | Action, Thriller

An environmental activist attempts to stop a dastardly villain who imports alligators from China in order to slaughter them for their meat in the US.

Director: Grant Austin Waldman | Stars: Antonio Fargas, John Henry Richardson, Shannon K. Foley, Michael Berryman

Votes: 26

40. Behind the Mask (2006)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary

Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front. It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete.

Director: Shannon Keith | Stars: Shannon Keith, Keith Mann, Kevin Kjonaas, Rod Coronado

Votes: 201

41. Den längsta dagen (2020)

119 min | Drama

Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.

Director: Jonas Selberg Augustsén | Stars: Christina Assa Bygdell, Antti Autio, Daniel Eneris Sandström, Göran Forsmark

Votes: 110

42. Hadwin's Judgement (2015)

87 min | Documentary, Drama

Docudrama about the maverick Canadian logger, Grant Hadwin, who became increasingly disillusioned with the logging industry.

Director: Sasha Snow | Stars: Michael Kopsa, Douglas Chapman, Kayla Wilson, John Vaillant

Votes: 85

43. Blueprint (1992)

190 min | Mystery, Thriller

A chilling thriller in the shadow of a nuclear power industry and cynical research around human life and death. There power and money means everything, and life nothing. Somebody must stand... See full summary »

Stars: Åsa Karlin, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Peter Haber, Torsten Näslund

Votes: 70

44. Bruno Manser - Laki Penan (2007)

110 min | Documentary

The documentary retraces the steps of Bruno Manser, a man from Switzerland who went to live with the indigenous tribe of the Penan in the Jungle of Borneo and ended up helping to defend ... See full summary »

Director: Christoph Kühn | Stars: Bruno Manser, Asit Nyelit, Sigang, Pajak

Votes: 59

45. Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for Our Planet (2019)

78 min | Documentary

An in-depth examination of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which was featured on the series Whale Wars (2008).

Director: Peter Brown | Stars: Peter Brown, Lon Haber, Peter Hammarstedt, Daryl Hannah

Votes: 22

46. Wrenched (2014)

TV-MA | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, Western

Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the seventies and eighties. Through interviews, ... See full summary »

Director: Ml Lincoln | Stars: Edward Abbey, Dave Foreman, Peg Millett, Robert Redford

Votes: 34

47. Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism (1987)

60 min | Documentary

The film delves into the theory and practice of Earth First-networks of radical environmental groups employing direct action tactics.

Director: Christopher Manes | Stars: Edward Abbey, Rick Baily, Darryl Cherney, John Davis

Votes: 16

48. Earth Focus: Vanishing Coral (2017 TV Movie)

26 min | Documentary

VANISHING CORAL reveals the devastating effects of warming oceans and bleaching events within the "coral triangle" of southeast Asia, and powerfully illustrates what some dedicated ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Olsson | Stars: Abigail Alling, Christopher Dolphin, Phil Dustan, Nadja Low

49. Greedy Lying Bastards (2012)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

Melting sea ice, glacier loss and rising sea levels. Severe droughts and wildfires. Increasingly severe tornadoes, hurricanes, and flooding. Record heat waves. Climate change is no longer a... See full summary »

Director: Craig Scott Rosebraugh | Stars: Enoch Adams, George W. Bush, Philip Cooney, Kert Davies

Votes: 272 | Gross: $0.09M

50. At the Edge of the World (2008)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

At the Edge of the World chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, under-trained and under-equipped, ... See full summary »

Directors: Dan Stone, Patrick Gambuti Jr. | Stars: Paul Watson, Alex Cornelissen, Peter Hammarstedt, Benjamin Baldwin

Votes: 895