Geography Movies

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka,...

Physical features such as gulf, peninsula, island, etc, are defined and basic principles of using colors to show elevation are illustrated with...

In 2013, the world's media reported on a shocking mountain-high brawl as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. Director Jennifer Peedom and...

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the...

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their...

Disenchanted with their fixed places on the map, the states swap spots in hopes that each can get to see a different part of the country and do...

The Gold Rush, Phoenicia as a sea power, political change in Africa, and the Panama Canal are some of the topics considered in showing how different...

The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The...

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to...

Discusses the main geographical features of South America including the Andes, the Guiana and Brazilian highlands, and the Orinoco, Amazon and...

The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and...

How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an international team of scientists and explorers on an...

Explores the distinctive features of the major rivers of the continent, and discusses their contributions to the farming, recreation, transportation...