Garbage Movies

Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Academic Support Center Film Library, Keep...

Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year...

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by...

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother...

An experimental 3D animation about a broken android, an elusive junk monster, and the place where all the broken things go.

This documentary film presents one of the largest environmental and financial crimes of our days. More specificaly, it explores the irreversible...

Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net...

A young man collects bottles from people's garbage and he is trying to find a way out of that situation. A middle-aged waitress will try to help him.

A journey into the interior of garbage, contemplated as a phenomenon of the human spirit, and not only as a product of human action. This...

Follows the party worker who gave up his own child, and a young woman who left her baby in the garbage. After 19 years, it can be seen that the same...

Planet Earth has become a gigantic landfill, as a gardener and her husband learn too late.

Over eight million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, killing sea life. Now new evidence says it's entering our food chain with unknown...

Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.

A cute little guy is trying to do the right thing and clean up his neighborhood. However, when he approaches a garbage can to empty it, one...