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4 documentaries recommended by One Good Story Project on the topic of environment.

Opening frame of The Call of the Swamp, showing a bald cypress swamp in southern Illinois.

Environment The Call of the Swamp, Bird-Voiced Tree Frog 2023 The Call of the Swamp follows scientists from the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center into the bottomland swamps of southern… Read more

Split frame from the film. On the left a salmon lies in a shallow gravel stream. On the right a woman in a knit cap, glasses and a down vest stands beside a fallen log, with the on-screen caption not once but twice is incredibly exciting.

Environment Celebrating Mendocino Coho Returns 2025 This film runs four minutes and went up on the Trout Unlimited channel on April 2, 2025. Its published description says coho… Read more

A single hiker standing among old-growth coast redwood trunks at Redcrest, California, the figure showing the scale of the trees. Photo by Dan Lynch on Pexels, free to use.

Environment Giants Rising 2024 Giants Rising is a documentary about the coast redwoods of California and the people working to understand and protect them. Lisa Landers… Read more

A person in outdoor clothing crouches on snow beside a glacier and points at the ice.

Environment Can you save a glacier with wool? 2026 Swedish adventurer Oskar Kihlborg, the first Swede to summit Everest, hauls a huge wool blanket up Kebnekaise, Sweden’s highest mountain, to see… Read more

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