Drought Movies

After her father dies in an eerie accident at the family's winery, Ellia returns home from the big city to tend to the remaining members of her...

Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot...

A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the...

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.

Five residents of a tiny village in Catalonia decide to make a report on the drought it is suffering from. A group of young filmmakers accompany them...

Teenager Elias has watched his farming community struggle through season after season of bad crops. When unexplained visions--perhaps from another...

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous...

On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what...

A little girl will have to sing to the mythical goddess of water so that this valuable liquid can reach her community.

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our...

The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman...

Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastructure throughout the USA.

After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a...

In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in...

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from...

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.

Against the backdrop of a Sicily in the midst of a water emergency, two residents of the small town of Rocca Fiorita tackle the problem, one relying...

The Colorado River is the foundation of the American Southwest. But the confluence of a once-in-a-millennium drought, a hundred-year-old mistake, and...