Allensworth Rising: A Fight for Water

Follows Sherry Hunter, a lifelong resident and community leader, in her tireless effort to secure safe, clean water for the historic town of Allensworth, California.

America's Wolf

Long ago, red wolves roamed from the bayous of East Texas to the bays of coastal New York. Today, not even 20 remain in the wild—confined to a tiny pocket of habitat in far Eastern North Carolina. This short film uses over four years' worth of National Geographic Explorer Jessica Suarez's photographs to tell the imagined story of one young wolf. Raised in captivity, she's eventually released into that last remaining habitat, and in the wild she finds freedom, danger, and the possibility of a new future for her species. Long ago, the red wolf was America's Wolf, and with our help it could be again.

Between Moon Tides

In a ribbon of saltmarsh in coastal New England, an intergenerational group of citizen scientists is trying to save the Saltmarsh Sparrow from extinction, one nest at a time.

Florida Bear Tracks

An all female team of biologists sets out to collar black bears in South Florida on a quest to learn what the future holds for the species.

Inaccessible

Set in Montana’s rugged Crazy Mountains, “Inaccessible” follows professional skier Griffin Post and a team of elite athletes as they venture into terrain shaped by history and the complex boundaries of public and private land. What begins as a ski expedition becomes a powerful exploration of who gets to access—and ultimately protect—America’s shared places. “Inaccessible” explores the boundaries that separate millions of acres of public land from the public, and Griffin Post’s search for something deeper than snow.

Life Invisible

As millions die each year from superbug infections, a Chilean scientist searches the hostile salt flats of the Atacama Desert for new antibiotics.

Nodules

Two marine scientists’ discoveries about bizarre deep-sea rocks illuminate a growing face-off between science and capitalism on Earth’s last great wilderness.

Patched Wings

Every year in the United States, more than one billion birds die after colliding with buildings, which is an often overlooked crisis with profound consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, and agricultural health.

The Clearing

The Clearing follows young Cambodian activists risking years in prison for exposing state-sanctioned environmental destruction, as they continue on their collision course with the authorities.

Waska: The Forest Is My Family

In memory of her grandfather, Nina Gualinga speaks to his legacy by calling out the commodification and extractivism of Indigenous lands in the Amazon Rainforest, and how this consumption has now extended to the ancestral medicine, hayakwaska.

2026 Streaming Selections

Chasing Time (40-minute Director's Cut)

A meditative exploration of time and mortality. James Balog and his crew bring the decades-long Extreme Ice-Survey to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.

In Search of the Arctic Fox (+ Bonus BTS Content)

After filmmaker Zach Hellmuth and his wife nearly lost their daughter due to a fetal maternal hemorrhage, they began taking family walks outside to help her develop and cope with cerebral palsy. These outings opened Hellmuth’s eyes anew to the beauty of nature — and foxes in particular, thanks to a lucky encounter.

The Little Brown Bird

Once down to 80 in the wild, the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow is at risk of extinction. Biologist Fabiola 'Fabby' Baeza-Tarin and an unexpected team work together to protect the sparrows, their shrinking habitat, and the headwaters of the Everglades.

Bonus Streaming Highlights

The Time of Water

The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together thirty Indigenous nations of the upper Amazon, in Ecuador and Peru, who are self-organizing to defend a forest devastated by the forces of extraction that is unchecked devouring the territory.

Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

What happens when a glacier dies? The community members know that rising temperatures is affecting the apu, or mountain god, but they believe that transforming a Quechua ritual will help them protect it and restore the snow.

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