The Must-See Environmental Movies Of The Decade (VIDEO)

The environment has been at the forefront of pop culture during the 2000's. HuffPost Green thought we'd compile some of the decade's best narrative green films - from scary post-apocalyptic adventures to quirky animated adventures. Before graduating to 2010, check out some of these must-see enviro films, and give a big round of applause for all the attention that the green movement has been getting in the media this decade!

Take a glimpse at our slideshow, and let us know which one was your fave enviro film of the 00's!

The Road

The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, is a tale of survival after the environmental apocalypse. The Road is out in theaters right now!

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[Aladdin Sane]

11:44 AM on 01/04/2010

How about putting up a listing of college courses that will actually help educate people about the environment? Movies are entertainment. When they masquerade as informational then it’scalled misinformation.

[Aladdin Sane]

10:43 AM on 01/04/2010

Let’s go to the movies. Yeah that’s always been a great way to get an education. How about the huffpo putting up a listing of college courses that will actually help educate people about the environment? Movies are entertainment. When they masquerade as informational then they are what are called propaganda – (or documentary – if you stretch the definition of movie and truth). I don’t mean to upset anyone but the fact is that the lefties use propaganda as much as the righties and they’re both guilty of manipulating the truth in order to manipulate the population. I learned about global warming in my geology classes back in the mid-90’s while studying fine art in college. I understand the science and believe the research supports the conclusions that climate change is anthropogenic. However, Hollywood plays so loosely with the facts and scientific evidence that any rightwing lunatic that’s been fed their brand of propaganda has an easy target on the left if all we have is some incomplete and childish conception of the environment as disseminated by these movies. “An Inconvenient Truth” stands as an exception of course. It's not on this list?? Why? Wasn't the frog cool enough? Or was it too sciency?

[mp3sevdam]

03:47 AM on 01/04/2010

The elite can't do what they do without the help of the masses. I feel that the movie sidesteps that issue.
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[wolverine442]

12:26 PM on 01/03/2010

Where is the granddaddy of them all? Inconvenient Truth

[HitTheRoadCa]

11:49 AM on 01/01/2010

ENOUGH of the Post Eco Apocalypse! How about some 'Let's get to work solving the problem! Anyone seen the National Film Board of Canada' 'The Man Who Planted Trees' ?

[cucumber]

12:37 PM on 12/31/2009

Children of Men makes no sense to me. It portrays a world that's crumbling apart - environmentally, socially, every way...and the "hope" is to bring more kids into this? It's the profound selfishness and shortsightedness that most people have...the world is struggling under our weight environmentally...and the "solution" is to bring more kids onto it to experience more of the same and worse. That's no gift to the kids you're bringing into the world. So what if humans ceased to exist and gave the rest of the earthlings a break from our extreme predation and destruction?

[Pgrace]

04:30 AM on 12/31/2009

How about HAPPY FEET

[Philament]

12:58 AM on 12/31/2009

I don't know much about The Road, but the clip I just watched may have scarred me for life. Geez, that's dark stuff.

[idontknowanything]

12:12 PM on 12/31/2009

I read the book. Dark doesn't even begin to describe it. This is a pretty scary part, but there is much worse still. Apparently the movie doesn't contain the bit about the newborn cooking on a spit.

[Blenvid]

07:39 PM on 12/30/2009

I was surprised not to see "Into the Wild" on this list. I'm pretty sure it would be considered Environmentalist, since the main character's primary motivation in life is also shared by the Environmental movement.

Henry David Thoreau may have said it best. "In wilderness is the preservation of the world."

[Forester]

02:01 PM on 12/30/2009

Children of Men is an excellent post-apocalyptic parable with remarkable cinematography and special effects that do not intrude on the story. Don't miss Michael Caine as a holed-up radical.

[sanderson13]

01:25 PM on 12/30/2009

I read The Road, but haven't seen the movie. In the book, it's never made clear (at least to me) what the source was for society's collapse (although it seemed to be man-made, but could have been a nuclear winter, as far as I know).

Did I miss something in the book, or is the movie different in this regard?

[mp3sevdam]

12:09 PM on 12/30/2009

Sinclair opposed the resultant legislation as weighted to benefit the larger, more oppressive industry saying, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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[bannorhill]

11:36 AM on 12/30/2009

Al Gore did not make the list, but science fiction movies did. Does that say something?

[spilkus]

11:25 PM on 12/30/2009

Yes, it says that Huffpo missed the boat on this list.

[bannorhill]

10:25 AM on 12/31/2009

Or Al Gore's move is less creditable than science fiction.

[sparky73]

10:51 AM on 12/30/2009

"The Day After Tomorrow" should be shown in ever highschool science class as an example of what can happen if we don't change our ways.

[BCALM]

11:16 AM on 12/30/2009

yeah right,,,, it has the same scientific value as the AlGore Sci Fi flick that the UK deemed nonsense

[Temsi]

04:41 PM on 01/04/2010

Right, except what happens in that movie can't happen, even if we don't change our ways.

[TimnySlagle]

10:04 AM on 12/30/2009

Funny.

All the top environmental films are works of fiction.

And you people make fun of Christians who take the Bible literally....

[AmandaBC]

10:13 AM on 12/30/2009

Total non-sequitur.

[TimnySlagle]

10:17 AM on 12/30/2009

To the simple-minded, perhaps it seems that way.

[ecotopian]

10:36 AM on 12/30/2009

You must be allegorically challenged if you can't figure it out.