Every year atleast 10 movies about Earth’s ongoing issues are releasing yet the efforts we’re making for Mother Earth seem to be less. On World Earth Day 2023, to celebrate the wonderful planet’s existence and sensitize the tensions around the world’s destruction, here are some noteworthy movies.
10 Environmental Movies to Watch on World Earth Day 2023
Wall-E – 2008
Wall-E, created by Andrew Stanton, is an animated movie about two robots falling in love with each other while they’re cleaning the metal-filled earth. On their journey, they discover a plant that could once again send humankind back to its land. However, the humans on spaceships have other dirty plans.
After Earth – 2013
Starring father and son duo Will Smith and Jaden Smith, After Earth takes place in a post-apocalyptic earth where humans no more habit it. When father Cypher gets injured, son Kitai takes on his journey. The movie is purely fictional but the possibility of earth becoming inhabitable one day is to be focused on.
2012 – 2009
2012 movie traumatised a lot of kids due to the Mayan calendar story that was going around. Almost everyone thought that the world is going to end in the year 2012 on December 22 but the day went by normally. Though ten years have already passed by, this movie never fails to remind one that such disasters are possible.
Don’t Look Up – 2021
The recent movie Don’t Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and other notable casts, narrates the story of how government disregards scientists’ emergency calls. Despite warning about a comet, the government doesn’t bother to save humankind. However, in the end, we understand that many officials get to escape, but the people are left to face the consequences.
The Day After Tomorrow – 2004
When a storm unexpectedly plunges the planet, creating a new ice age, Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist, decides to risk it all and trek to New York to save his son. During his journey, he endures health issues, including ice frost.
Okja – 2017
The South Korean film will move you to tears after witnessing the bond between a girl and an animal that gets misused by a corporation in the near future. The movie makes one think about endangered species and how officials need to involve to save species from extinction.
An Inconvenient Truth – 2006
An Inconvenient Truth is an Oscar-winning documentary where we get to see how humankind has worsened the blue planet. We are shown multiple issues (some are even gore) that ignites within us the risk human species are causing the earth. High to save mother earth!
Kiss the Ground – 2020
As climate change is one of the leading reasons behind Earth’s destruction, activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians join together and focus on agriculture to save the planet’s soil. As soil helps to plant trees that ultimately heal the climate, agriculture regeneration is the main theme of the movie.
My Octopus Teacher – 2020
Craig Foster’s My Octopus Teacher covers the relationship between him and a common wild species of octopus. Most of the scenes are filmed underwater in False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa. We are shown the octopus’ moves, its everyday life, and how it protects itself from sharks and similar predators. The unusual documentary is both touching and educational.
Avatar – 2009
Avatar is not really an earth-based movie, but it is a great eye-opener that proves how evil mankind can be and that it has the capability of destroying livelihood and the planet just for resources. Both parts of this movie can be watched as a metaphor for how the Earth is possibly also materialized by corporations.
Which movie are you going to watch first? Let us know your choice in the comment section.
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