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Showing 1 - 10 of 29 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Environmental History

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes

Arid Lands

A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.

Bullfrog Films | 2007 | 98 minutes

Big Spuds, Little Spuds

The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops.

Bullfrog Films | 1999 | 52 minutes

Across the west, wildfires have never been more destructive. Oregon’s record-breaking 2020 wildfire season killed at least 11 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and businesses, and burned over 1 million acres of land. Today’s fires are vivid and deadly evidence of the new wildfire realities that can no longer be ignored.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 52 minutes

Butterflies and Bulldozers

The fight to save San Francisco's San Bruno Mountain speaks to the global dilemma of economic growth versus species preservation.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 62 minutes

Chasing Water

Breathtaking photography tells the story of the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90 miles short of the Sea of Cortez.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 18 minutes

Cheshire, Ohio

Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 75 minutes

Circuit Earth

Shot throughout Philadelphia during the first Earth Week in 1970, the film features community groups, citizens and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet.

Bullfrog Films | 1971 | 43 minutes