Planet & Climate Documentaries

Weather, volcanoes, ice and the long fight for a stable climate.

• Climate Change
• Geology & Landscapes
• Polar Worlds
• Environment & Conservation

Topics

• Climate Science documentaries
• Renewable Energy & Solutions documentaries
• Water & Drought documentaries
• Caves, Canyons & Waterfalls documentaries
• Glaciers & Ice Sheets documentaries
• Polar Wildlife documentaries
• Polar Science & Life at the Poles documentaries
• Plastic, Pollution & Waste documentaries
• Rainforests, Forests & Biodiversity documentaries
• Sustainable Living & Activism documentaries

• The Forever Chemical Scandal (48 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Flatpack forests - IKEA’s practices in the Carpathian Mountains (58 min, DW Documentary)
• The Surprising Solutions to the World's Water Crisis | The Future With Hannah Fry (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• What Really Happened During The Dark Age's Global Climate Catastrophe? (49 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012 (48 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Turning a $150 AC Into a Super-Efficient Geothermal Unit! (58 min, Tech Ingredients)
• The New Kind of Heat Humans Can’t Handle (22 min, Be Smart)
• Global renewables: Pioneering the energy transition (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Antarctica: Home at the End of the Earth | Incredible Animal Journeys (45 min, National Geographic)
• How China Broke the World's Recycling (20 min, Wendover Productions)
• Why British Aristocrats Are Purposely Letting Their Estates Go Wild (38 min, Absolute History)
• Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal (114 min, American Experience)
• The Mysterious Origins Of The Great Lakes | Naked Science Season 6 Episode 3 (46 min, Spark)
• A Week in one of World's Largest Toxic Waste Dumps | The Insider: Reggie Yates (54 min, Free Documentary)
• How The Earth Was Made: From Molten Rock to Green Planet | Full Special (91 min, HISTORY)
• We WILL Fix Climate Change! (14 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Can YOU Fix Climate Change? (16 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? (9 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It? (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Using Drones to Plant 20,000,000 Trees (12 min, Mark Rober)
• Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think (19 min, Practical Engineering)
• The Missing Link in Renewables (23 min, Real Engineering)
• The Earth's Greatest Mysteries (26 min, BBC Studios)
• What Is Behind a HUGE Landfill in California | Secrets of Mega Landfill (49 min, ENDEVR)
• Plastic Wars (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated. (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Solar Powered Air Conditioner! (30 min, Tech Ingredients)
• The Carbon Offset Problem (23 min, Wendover Productions)
• How China Reclaimed Inner Mongolia's Deserts: From Sand Dunes To Green Oases (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Rivers at risk - Water crisis on four continents (90 min, DW Documentary)
• Floods, heavy rain, extreme weather - Why we need to build differently (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Who owns water? (43 min, DW Documentary)
• The Making of a Wind Turbine | Exceptional Engineering (50 min, Free Documentary)
• Antarctica's Mysterious Lifeforms | Full Episode | Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman (23 min, PBS)
• Why Is Desalination So Difficult? (21 min, Practical Engineering)
• The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water (19 min, Practical Engineering)
• Solar Farms in Space - Reflect Orbital (31 min, Real Engineering)
• The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa (18 min, Real Engineering)
• The Biggest Myth About Climate Change (29 min, Be Smart)
• The Canary Islands paradox - Desalination plants: Curse or blessing? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The melting ice of the Arctic (1/2) (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Can You Safely Drink Your Own Pee? (11 min, Mark Rober)
• Live from the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica with Miles O'Brien | NOVA | PBS (70 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• Inside Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier | Full Episode | Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien (28 min, PBS)
• Geothermal Energy is Changing (22 min, Real Engineering)
• Get 4X The Power From Your Solar Panels! - TI Sunday (19 min, Tech Ingredients)
• The melting ice of the Arctic (2/2) (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Formation of the Grand Canyon | How the Earth Was Made (S2, E1) (44 min, HISTORY)
• Are Beavers the Solution for Drought? | Full Episode | Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien (26 min, PBS)
• How a Chemical Company Created a Ghost Town | Overlooked (20 min, VICE)
• Copenhagen - The world’s greenest capital city? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Antarctica: A message from another planet (42 min, DW Documentary)
• DANGER & AWE IN YOSEMITE VALLEY | How The Earth Was Made (S2, E5) (45 min, HISTORY)
• California's Renewable Energy Problem (18 min, Real Engineering)
• Why Sea Life Might Need Trash (25 min, Real Science)
• The battle against climate change by Paul Kingsnorth - Docu (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Is Your Food Safe? Inside Thailand’s Toxic River Crisis | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• The dirty reality behind "green steel" (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Water scarcity - Innovation to combat drought (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The toxic waste from drugs like ecstasy, speed or crystal meth (28 min, DW Documentary)