Movies and TvShows featuring "environmental-exploitation" theme.

Zeitgeist: Addendum is a documentary that presents a critical view of the global financial system, exposing corruption, exploitation, and the negative consequences of corporate power and greed. It delves into topics such as economic theories, the banking system, modern-day slavery, and the impact of globalization. The film also explores the interconnectedness of various issues such as environmental exploitation, government corruption, and human suffering.

MAN is an animated movie that explores the consequences of unchecked consumerism and environmental exploitation. It portrays a world where profit motives and indifference to nature lead to the destruction of the environment, resulting in ecological disasters and the extinction of various species. The movie serves as a social critique on capitalism and mass production, using metaphor and allegory to address issues such as pollution, waste, and animal cruelty.

A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.

"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Africa, a renaissance man teaches citizens to harness solar power to cook food. In Papua New Guinea, villagers practice sustainable logging to save their rainforests. A woman in London uses her PR savvy to start a successful environmental communications firm. Self-described "hillbillies" in Appalachia battle the big business behind strip mining. In this rich and inspiring documentary, director Brian Hill takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment.

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.