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Arranged by year of release: Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) Eccentric man-child embarks on journey of his life to find his beloved stolen bike. Tim Burton directed, Phil Hartman wrote, Paul Reubens starred. http://imdb.com/title/tt0089791 After The Warming (1989) Famed social journalist James Burke traces the history of ice ages and warming trends, and presents possible scenarios for greenhouse effects through the 1990s to 2050. Accurately predicting the present over two decades ago. http://imdb.com/title/tt0334827 Return of the Scorcher (1992) Short documentary looks at bike culture and bike lifestyles around the world with beautiful and inspiring scenes. http://tedwhitegreenlight.com We Are Traffic! (1999) Bikeumentaries chronicling development of the "Critical Mass" bicycle movement, a massive monthly ritual of reclaiming the streets by riding en masse, constituting the cutting edge of alternative transportation advocacy. http://tedwhitegreenlight.com The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Star studded imagining of how gulf stream changes could tip the climate overnight. http://imdb.com/title/tt0319262 The End of Suburbia (2004) Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream. http://endofsuburbia.com Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) How energy sector greed and corruption lead the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in under a year. http://imdb.com/title/tt1016268 The Power of Community (2005) How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, and the loss over half its oil imports after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, by completely reorganizing its agricultural system and implementing broad day-to-day changes leading to improved health, food, and community. Why wait for the crisis? http://imdb.com/title/tt0814275 Still We Ride (2005) A NYC Critical Mass movie documents the August 2004 police action against riders (largest mass arrest in NYC history) before the RNC, making many locals aware of the ride for the first time. Film takes on civil liberties, information, and alternative transportation issues, and recounts history back to San Francisco over 10 years ago. http://stillweridethemovie.com Syriana (2005) George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, William Hurt, etc. A near future action film explains how things really are with The Middle East and US policy, covering industrial society's slow, deathly descent. http://imdb.com/title/tt0365737 A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) A theatrical and scientific documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources. http://oilcrashmovie.com An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Al Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. Not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. http://imdb.com/title/tt0497116 Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) The bizarre suspicious circumstances of the sudden recall and destruction of all California's electric cars following ten years of successful leasing and use. Featuring Martin Sheen, Ed Begley Jr., Phyllis Diller, Mel Gibson, etc. http://imdb.com/title/tt0489037 B.I.K.E. - Be Inclusive Kill Exclusivity (2007) Documentary following exploits of the "Black Label Bicycle Gang" and their anti-capitalist freak bike building culture. http://bike-films.com The 11th Hour (2007) Leonardo DiCaprio documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems, and proposes potential solutions. Appearances by Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, Wangari Maathai, Paul Hawken, David Orr, David Suzuki, Paul Stamets. http://imdb.com/title/tt0492931 Escape From Suburbia (2007) Sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. Sequel to "End Of Suburbia" (2004). http://escapefromsuburbia.com Indecent Exposure to Cars (2007) Conrad Schmidt tells the story of the World Naked Bike Ride; a tale of people, suspense, intrigue, love, and fighting catastrophic environmental collapse. http://worldnakedbikeride.org/movie/movie.htm There Will Be Blood (2007) Family, religion, greed and deceit in turn-of-the-century oil prospecting. http://imdb.com/title/tt0469494 Zeitgeist (2007) Exhaustively reveals historical and modern information about currently dominant social institutions and their control of the masses. http://zeitgeistmovie.com Six Degrees Could Change the World (2008) National Geographic runs through the catastrophic effect each degree in temperature change will have on the world. http://imdb.com/title/tt1224519 The Story Of Stuff (2008) Tides Center fast-paced, fact-filled cartoon exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. http://storyofstuff.com Wall-E (2008) Beautiful Pixar "cosmic comedy" carrying surprisingly strong environmental warnings. http://imdb.com/title/tt0910970 | ||||||||||||
