Drought Movies

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

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A drought-stricken village prays for rain, except for one child who wishes for the opposite, whose prayers will be answered?

A worldwide exodus through the desert begins, in search of the last oasis that offers life on the planet.

In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of...

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

When severe drought strikes the village on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border Indira fights to make the water accessible in the village.