Great documentaries educate us and sometimes even inspire us to take action. Here are five docs for your little eco-warriors:
1. Arctic Tale (2007)
This National Geographic film follows a polar bear cub and a walrus pup as they grow into powerful adults, all the while showing the audience how tough things are in the Arctic now that the ice is melting. You had us at polar bear cub. But seriously, the idea that the Arctic home of all these amazing animals is in trouble is very scary. Think of the polar bears and walruses that could be saved if kids today grow up to be better caretakers of the planet than we are?
PS22 is amazing. A little school chorus from Staten Island that finds itself singing at the Oscars and being praised by like everybody? Of course that makes for a great story; no wonder the kids of PS22 are starring in a documentary.
Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story is one of the must-see films of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca sat down with chorus director Gregg Breinberg to talk about what makes his kids and their story so special.
When asked how he would describe the movie, Breinberg tells Tribeca, Read more...
We’ve been fortunate enough to come across a lot of good dads. The Good Men Project and GeekDad are just some of the sites featuring awesome fathers who write about their kids and families. And while good dads are good dads, we’ve got a bit of a soft spot for bad boys who grow up to be fun, caring and loving fathers. Take Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, whose Twitter bio says he “ain’t no nice guy”, but then he goes and shows us his Tinkerbell pancake technique for example. Or crack fiend-turned-Superdad Chris Shulgan. Anyway, all that is to say that when we saw the trailer for The Other F Word, we knew it was a movie we had to see. Read more...
New documentary “challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.”
Scary quote from the trailer: “Little boys and little girls, when they’re 7 years old, an equal number want to be president of the United States when they grow up; but then you ask the same question when they’re 15 and you see this massive gap emerging.”
Parent-kid movie critic teams review the latest flicks
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So what Colin and Ella think of the orphaned baby orangutans and elephants documentary?
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