Drought Movies

Summer '76, there's a heatwave and the Swiss countryside is drying out at top speed. In this stifling environment, Gus who is thirteen years old and s...

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

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Shylo Song must decide whether she, her younger sister, and their grandmother should leave their childhood home...

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

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...

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries...

A story through a child's eyes about living through a drought.

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

After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be rep...

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

In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. The isolated Lost Wells outpost survived the holocaust and the inh...

A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.

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 outl...

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 Ame...

In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never...

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

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

A Native American grandmother who lives very simply alone in the desert actually inhabits a world that her half-Hispanic grandson and a white aging ma...

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and s...

A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to fin...