River Movies

Half-hour special on the environmental and cultural significance of the Columbia River as seen by inhabitants along the river. Broadcast by public...

A documentary that reveals California's complex struggle over who gets fresh water, and how moneyed interests game the system. Constant battling over...

A series of 13 videos made between 2000 and 2009 shown together for the first time. Starting with the “musical” writings of Pier Vittorio...

A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and...

A father-and-son fishing duo find a briefcase of criminal money in a river and are chased by both the police and the criminals.

Emerging from the forest, a group of nomadic merchants march to the bank of the river they must traverse. Carrying their cargo on their backs, they...

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's...

When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.

The trafficking of a fabled humanoid bird by seedy blokes through rivers, jungles and dark corners of society

During the summer on their Grandfather’s land Johanna, Robert, Harald and Alex begin a secret journey up the river on a boat with a chicken in...

During a summer in a french southern village, two girls meet : Laure sells antique linen while Ophélie runs an art gallery. Although they have...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This short film from canoeist Bill Mason illustrates the joy and poetry of paddling solo. All the basic strokes used to control the canoe are...

Mariona realizes the distance formed between her and her friends when they go on an excursion together to the river pool they used to visit when they...

A group of old friends go on a camping trip, confronting their differences and encountering strange occurrences in the wilderness.

The river Yamuna, known to the locals as 'Jamna', the lifeline of Delhi, is going through a major crisis due to pollution, mismanagement and sheer...

In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

Aníbal, an old fisherman, returns to Nueva Venecia, a village of stilt houses in the heart of the Ciénaga del Magdalena, on the...