| Title | Made by | Release year | Who has it locally? | Website | Rating and length | Summary |
| The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil | Community Solution | 2006 | Martin Birley, Shaun Chamberlin | www.communitysolutions.org/cuba | Inspiring, 53 mins | Urban organic agriculture and community spirit. Well-researched comments on the film's portrayal of the reality here: http://tinyurl.com/552zq6 |
| Rob Newman's History of Oil | Rob Newman | 2006 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/led5w | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/led5w | Brilliantly entertaining, 45mins | Rob Newman is a renowned stand-up comedian who shows in this brilliant performance that he understands the problems we face. |
| Money As Debt | Paul Grignon | 2007 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/2uoexg | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/2uoexg | 47mins | An astonishingly clear and engaging video animation, explaining the little-understood reality behind our existing monetary system. |
| Energy Crossroads: A burning need to change course | Tiroir A Films | 2007 | - | http://www.energyxroads.com | 55mins | This award-winning documentary exposes the problems associated with our energy consumption. It also offers concrete solutions for those who want to educate themselves and be part of the solutions in this decisive era. |
| An Incontestable Truth: Contraction & Convergence | All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group | 2007 | Martin Birley, Shaun Chamberlin (x2) | www.appgopo.org.uk/ | needs to be seen | |
| If the oil runs out | BBC | 2006 | Can be watched in full via Youtube. Part 1 at: http://tinyurl.com/68dy6s | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/if/4989146.stm | 6 x 10 minutes. Well worth watching | See a summary at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/if/4989146.stm. About drilling for oil in the arctic wilderness and elsewhere. Some drama, some interviews. |
| Peak Oil | Journeyman | 2006 | available to view online at cost of £1 | www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3030 | 45m. Looks good | Is the age of cheap oil about to come to an end? According to many experts, we are about to reach the point of peak oil |
| Message in the Waves | BBC Natural History Unit (Hawai'i) | 2007 | Available for download (large file!)at: http://tinyurl.com/5n69sn | http://www.messageinthewaves.com/ | 123 mins, very good | A beautifully filmed, inspiring yet heart-rending look at what plastic and rubbish is doing to our ocean and marine life, looking particularly at Hawai'i. This film inspired the town of Modbury, South Devon to go plastic bag free. Is Kingston next? |
| Rob Hopkins presentation to IFG conference | Rob Hopkins | 2008 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/5rez2j | www.transitionculture.org | 3 segments, each about 5mins | Inspiring chat about power down, resilience and why Transition is such an important concept at this moment in history |
| The Story of Stuff | Annie Leonard | 2005/6 | Can be watched in full at: http://www.storyofstuff.com/ | http://www.storyofstuff.com/ | 20 min, entertaining and valuable. worth a look | Looks at the life-cycle of products using cartoons and commentary. Useful facts. american and perhaps mostly aimed at US audience. |
| Escape from Suburbia: beyond the American Dream | Gregory Green | 2007 | Toni - baizard@hotmail.co.uk | www.escapefromsuburbia.com | 95 minutes, US focus, much better than end of suburbia | Views of projects in Canada and California, lots of talking heads, inspiring |
| What are we waiting for? | Greenpeace | 2006 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/6g.qgmo. Martin has a DVD | www.greenpeace.org.uk | very good, 18 minutes | Decentralised energy, CHP, transmission losses, what other european countries are doing |
| Waste = Food | VPRO (Dutch TV - programme in English) | 2006 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/59tvk2 | http://tinyurl.com/3fa9jh | 49m | An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept... Man is the only creature that produces landfills...An amazing story that will definitely change your way of thinking about production and consumption. |
| Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip | Leo Murray (also of Plane Stupid) | 2008 | Can be watched in full at: http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html | http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html | 11 mins. A breathtakingly clear and incisive explanation of why these are the most crucial years in any of our lives | It’s much, much later than you think. This really isn’t about polar bears any more. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance. |
| Corporations Uber Alles | How to Boil a Frog | 2008 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/4jyp4g | http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/ | 5 mins - amusing | Short and to the point! |
| Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction | The Species Alliance | 2008 | Can be watched in full at: http://speciesalliance.org/video.php | http://speciesalliance.org/video.php | 9mins, a clear and compelling wakeup call on the urgency of biodiversity loss | |
| Richard Heinberg interview | One World TV | 2007 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/5rx9by | http://tv.oneworld.net/ | 7m, very clear introduction to the challenges of Peak Oil | |
| Peak Oil - short animation | Patrick Blower | 2008 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/5gkydy | http://www.livedraw.co.uk/ | 2mins | |
| Who killed the electric car? | Sony Picture Classics | 2004 | Martin rented from lovefilm | www.lovefilm.com; www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/ | 1:25 very good | California had an electric car made by GM. it was mysteriously withdrawn as a result of big business interests |
| The Convenient Solution | Greenpeace | 2007 | Can be watched in full at: http://tinyurl.com/6mlqpa | www.greenpeace.org.uk | Not as good as What are we waiting for? 9m30 | More on energy effciency and conservation |
| The End of Suburbia | Electric Wallpaper | 2004 | Christine Crispin, Shaun Chamberlin | www.endofsuburbia.com | too american-focused and a bit slow, 78 minutes | Explains how the concept of suburban living is fossil fuel dependent. |
| A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash | Basil Gelpke | Ray McCormack | 2008 | Rented from Lovefilm - www.lovefilm.com | http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/ | Very good, 85min | A shocking wake-up call, 'A Crude Awakening' is a compelling, intelligent and urgent warning that the age of abundant oil is over. |
| Peak Oil: imposed by nature | Tropos Dokumentar | 2005 | Shaun Chamberlin | | | Takes a look at the causes and consequences of Peak Oil, with a focus on the UK. Includes interviews with Colin Campbell and Matthew Simmons |
| The 11th Hour | Warner Bros. | 2008 | Christine Crispin | http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/11thhour/ | Full length movie | Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, who introduces a wide array of experts. |
| What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire | Visionquest pictures | 2007 | Shaun Chamberlin | http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/ | 123 mins | A very dark and sobering analysis of the challenges facing us. Not hope-filled! |
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