This playlist takes a deep dive into the forest to explore the importance of these spaces, the ways in which they are being destroyed, and what some people are doing about it. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Borealis Hadwin's Judgement Battle for the Trees Trouble in the Forest
This playlist takes a deep dive into the forest to explore the importance of these spaces, the ways in which they are being destroyed, and what some people are doing about it.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
Borealis
Hadwin's Judgement
Battle for the Trees
Trouble in the Forest
Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that travels deep into the heart of Canada’s iconic wilderness to explore how the plants and animals that live there communicate and survive the destructive forces of fire, insects, and human encroachment.
A compelling hybrid of drama and documentary, this feature film covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an extraordinary 300-year-old tree held sacred by the Indigenous Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and survivalist who lived and worked happily for many years in BCʼs ancient forests. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting, Hadwin was finally driven to commit what some would say was an extraordinary and perverse act, one that ran contrary to all he had come to value. Interweaving speculation, myth and reality, the film charts Hadwin’s emotional crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest and explores the possible motives for his unprecedented crime.
This documentary examines the battle strategies of citizens, scientists, loggers, environmentalists and First Nations people who are fighting over the liquidation of public forests and, with it, a way of life.
In this compelling film, David Suzuki investigates the frightening phenomenon of forest dieback caused by acid rain and proposes some solutions.