2013 Films

In a world of climate change and environmental catastrophes, two sisters, Anna and Emma, and their companions, the California Condors, stand out as a beacon of hope...

Shown with ENDANGERED HAWAI'I and HISTORY OF PATUXENT, THE: AMERICA'S CONSERVATION RESEARCH STORY

When young Chandani becomes determined to follow in her father’s footsteps and learn the secrets of the elephant whisperer passed down through generations of her family, she has to show extraordinary dedication to prove herself...

One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley – everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, the Moominhouse, too!

Writer and naturalist Joe Hutto was given the opportunity to raise wild turkeys from the moment they hatched. Deep in the wilds of Florida’s Flatlands, Hutto spent each day out and about with his new family of 16 poults...

Shown with BROKEN TAIL: A TIGER'S LAST JOURNEY, ELSA: THE LIONESS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, HELGOLAND: ISLAND IN THE STORM, and LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE

Come learn the history of the only designated National Wildlife Refuge dedicated solely to habitat research. Located in the backyard of the nation’s capital between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md., it was established by executive order in 1936 by President Franklin Roosevelt, who declared that wildlife research is the “barometer for climate change.”

Shown with ANNA, EMMA AND THE CONDORS and ENDANGERED HAWAI'I

Protecting Wild Lands, 20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective

From the moment David Brower first witnessed the beauty of Yosemite Valley, his life was inspired by the fight to preserve America’s wild lands for future generations...

Shown with BUTTERFLIES & BULLDOZERS: DAVID SCHOOLEY, FRED SMITH AND THE FIGHT FOR SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN

For George and Joy Adamson the experience of bringing up a lioness and returning it to the wild changed their lives forever. They realized that each lion was an individual with its own traits but also that the species as a whole would become endangered...

Shown with BROKEN TAIL: A TIGER'S LAST JOURNEY, HELGOLAND: ISLAND IN THE STORM, LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE, and MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

While Hawaii is justifiably known as a world class vacation destination because of its wonderful climate, beautiful beaches, breathtaking views and a lush tropical environment, it is now known as the bird extinction capital of the world...

Shown with ANNA, EMMA AND THE CONDORS and HISTORY OF PATUXENT, THE: AMERICA'S CONSERVATION RESEARCH STORY

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

After moving to New York City from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks: "Do we need the stars?" and “What do we lose when we lose the night?” He embarks on a quest to understand how light pollution is affecting people and the planet...

Discussion and Demonstration

From high in the sky to deep in the ocean, National Geographic’s Tech Team members – Eric Berkenpas, Mike Shepard and Alan Turchik – in their experimental think tank deep in the heart of the National Geographic headquarters, constantly seek innovative ways to capture amazing images and info about our world...

Looking at the city from a new and fresh perspective – the importance of a particular place in artistic creation – and telling the story of Paris as magnet: the catalyst and the transforming force that attracted the finest talents of the era, molding the lives and work of two remarkable generations...

Protecting Wild Lands, 20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective

For 50 years, many people have fought to protect San Bruno Mountain, a rare fragment of wild San Francisco and the largest undeveloped urban area in the country...

Shown with MONUMENTAL: DAVID BROWER'S FIGHT TO PROTECT WILD AMERICA

In the rugged North Sea, the island of Helgoland has braved the elements for centuries. As another natural spectacle, each year thousands of migrating birds find their safe haven on Helgoland...

Shown with BROKEN TAIL: A TIGER'S LAST JOURNEY, ELSA: THE LIONESS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE and MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

Capturing the extraordinary things animals and plants must do to survive and reproduce, this film documents the actions of an array of creatures. Witness amazing behavior, captured at 1,000 frames per second...

Shown with BROKEN TAIL: A TIGER'S LAST JOURNEY, ELSA: THE LIONESS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, HELGOLAND: ISLAND IN THE STORM and MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

As the most dammed, dibbed and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million people across the western United States and Mexico, the peace-keeping agreement known as the Colorado River Pact is reaching its limits. How can we meet the needs of a growing population in the face of rising temperatures and lower rainfall in an already arid land?

The most charismatic tiger cub Colin had ever seen, Broken Tail lived in Ranthambhore, one of India’s premier wild tiger reserves. Impossibly cute, but when he was three years old, Broken Tail abandoned his sanctuary and went on the run, disappearing into the wilds of rural India for almost a year...

Shown with ELSA: THE LIONESS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, HELGOLAND: ISLAND IN THE STORM, LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE and MY LIFE AS A TURKEY

In the early 20th century, when rare birds such as heron and egrets are being hunted and killed illegally to supply the millinery industry with feathers, naturalist Walt Murdoch arrives in Florida to become a game warden in the Everglades...

Today you enter the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, once one of the most luxurious hotels in Africa, at your own risk. A symbol of the troubled history of Mozambique, an eyewitness to colonialism, lavish parties, honeymoons, a revolution and a civil war...

Shown with THE SILVER AND THE CROSS

“The Spanish brought the cross and took the silver,” are the words the filmmaker uses to describe his pointed analysis of a 1758 naïve painting depicting villages, workers and silver mines in Peru during Spanish colonization.

Shown with GRANDE HOTEL

This sensory journey to the heart of the tropics lovingly captures such species as monkeys, deer, birds and spiders, depicting their symbiosis with the sea and the rain in this little-known landscape of the Guanacaste Dry Forest, which has been saved and protected...

Shown as part of the Lucy Walker Retrospective

A fascinating and frightening exploration of the dangers of nuclear weapons, this film is a wake-up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Marine Corps Master Sergeant, Jerry Ensminger's search led to the shocking discovery of a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. The film follows Jerry’s mission to expose the Marine Corps and force it to live up to its motto to the thousands of soldiers and their families exposed to toxic chemicals...

Thanks to laptops, speakers, radios, newspapers, video cameras, cell phones, etc, indigenous people have been integrating mass media to strengthen their claims and the recognition of their rights...

A mercenary scientist named Martin (Willem Dafoe) is sent into the wilds of Australia by a mysterious European biotech company to search for the last Tasmanian Tiger in this psychological drama...