Environmentalism in film and television

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Environmentalism has become a topic in film and television.

Within the last twenty years, commercially successful films with an environmentalism theme have been released theatrically and made by the major Hollywood studios. 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.^[1]

Some notable films with an environmental message include:^[2]

• Hell and High Water (1954)
• Baraka (1992)
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• Happy Feet (2006)
• Captain Planet, Ted Turner's animated television series
• Earth (2007)
• The 11th Hour (film) (2007)
• Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature.

[edit] See also

• Aotearoa Environmental Film Festival
• DC Environmental Film Festival
• green.tv, a website dedicated to showing environmental films clips

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• www.green.tv