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The 27th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) is currently underway in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The conference is built around daily themes that are meant to provide structure and focus. The following film selections from the Bullfrog Films catalog are highly recommended for initiating thoughtful group and classroom discussion of these issues that are so critical to tackling climate change. Most importantly, these films investigate both the challenges and the potential solutions.
These films are available with public performance rights and streaming for school and library use. In-person and virtual campus-wide or community screenings are available now through Bullfrog Communities. We've implemented a new dropdown ordering menu on our catalog pages that makes it easy to add your preferred format and license type to your order.
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Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are gathering any large woolly beast they can get their hands on and transporting them, by whatever low-budget means they can contrive, to the most remote corner of Siberia. They call their project Pleistocene Park. The goal: restore the Ice Age “mammoth steppe” ecosystem, prevent Arctic permafrost melt and slow its release of sequestered carbon, and avoid a catastrophic climate feedback loop leading to runaway global warming. Can two Russian scientists stave off a worst case scenario of global environmental catastrophe and reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world? The clock is ticking. | |
Animal agriculture and related land use generate one-quarter of annual greenhouse gas emissions; the three most consumed meats from ruminant livestock (cattle, sheep, and goats) use two-thirds of global agricultural land. Now, imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction—it's now within reach. Meat the Future follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat. | |
The conditions that make life possible are rapidly changing. Reckoning with this reality on the cusp of a record-setting dry season, filmmaker Emmett Brennan sets out to walk 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct. Along the way he encounters cultural leaders, ecological iconoclasts, and indigenous wisdom keepers who are re-envisioning our relationship to water. The water cycle is being broken, they say, and the consequence is an increasingly erratic and uninhabitable planet. Through a series of intimate vignettes, Reflection: a walk with water offers essential guidance for reviving this cycle. | |
By exploring the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world, the 3-part short documentary series Connectivity Project highlights how science and different cultures and traditions from around the world embrace the importance of interconnectedness. As we follow inspiring individuals who are making a difference in the lives around them, we see these connections exhibited all around us. Available for DSL or streaming only. | |
Point of No Return documents the journey of the Solar Impulse—the first solar-powered, round-the-world flight—demonstrating the tremendous potential of renewable energy sources. Go behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world, where two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible—not just to make history, but to inspire a revolution. | |
Through the story of a group of Canadian organic farmers both large and small-scale, From Seed to Seed allows us to experience a full growing season with all of its rewards as well as the challenges of a changing climate. Scientists are working with these farmers using a blend of ancient traditions and cutting edge science to develop improved methods for growing food ecologically and in a changing climate. This hopeful story provides perspective on a global social movement that regenerates the land, farming, and communities. | |
Las Vegas, in the middle of the Mojave Desert, is the driest city in America, yet it leads the United States in sustainable water conservation. Once Was Water illustrates how efforts of Las Vegas have produced promising solutions providing an on-going global model for any city creating their own sustainable water system. | |
A Concerned Citizen explores the work and activism of marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who predicted the Exxon Valdez oil spill and came to the aid of her Alaskan community in their battle to get fair compensation for their loss of health and income. Dr. Ott was also instrumental in organizing Gulf Coast communities as they struggled to recover from the Deepwater Horizon disaster; Taking the lessons she learned as an activist, she is spearheading a campaign called Ultimate Civics—a complete civics curriculum she developed that empowers students to participate in the democratic process to effect change. | |
Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of documentary films about the environment in the United States. We define "environment" broadly, and our catalog includes programs on disability studies, energy, agriculture, performing arts, women's studies, genetics, social psychology, cultural anthropology, community regeneration, economics, ethics, and conflict resolution. | | | | | |
