How about you make Wednesday your midweek movie night? What are the most life-changing movies you've watched so far?
Here's our list of some of our favourite movies and documentaries - you know, the ones that make you feel better, informed, even sometimes angry... the ones which prompt you to make changes. To change your life.
You can watch them on your TV, your computer, laptop, tablet or even on your phone - usually for free.
Find them on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, FoodMatters.tv and the Gaia platform.
We'd love to know your favourite - and will add any great movies we're missing.
Here's to midweek movie night! Wednesdays just became more interesting :)
This documentary takes a fascinating look at a man who goes on a cross-country journey to learn about Gerson Therapy, a plant-based therapy that proposes a dietary cure for cancer.
This groundbreaking documentary tells the story of Tilikum, a captive orca at SeaWorld, and provides an in-depth look at marine-animal parks.
Nutrition expert Jill Ovnik explains the benefits of a plant-based diet, including a reduced risk of developing cancer, diabetes, and other diseases as well as an increase in energy and weight loss.
This powerful documentary turns a critical eye on dolphin-hunting traditions in Japan. Our daughter Amy is aiming to be one of the dolphin protectors here next year.
Leonardo DiCaprio is the executive producer of this documentary, which takes on the meat industry, the most environmentally destructive force on the planet today. Be warned - don't watch this while eating!
This documentary tells the moving story of a 31-year-old woman who finds out that she has an incurable form of cancer and goes on a quest to discover alternative treatments, meeting and talking to other cancer patients and survivors along the way.
Taking a critical view of the fast-food industry, this award-winning movie examines everything that goes into making a burger.
This inspirational documentary starts with a road trip across the United States to spread the word about juicing and then turns to focus on an overweight truck driver and his subsequent journey to lose weight by drinking plant-based juices.
This documentary explains that at the rate at which the U.S. is currently eating, one out of every three Americans will have diabetes by 2050. It focuses on the obesity epidemic in the U.S. and the negative effects of fast food and sugar.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s in your food or how it’s made, this documentary is for you. Scratch that—this movie is for everyone, because we all eat food! You’ll learn why corn finds its way into even the most unlikely foods, about the cruel practice of fattening chickens with hormones to speed their growth, and how current laws exonerate corporations and companies, such as factory farms, from being held accountable for their methods of production.
One quotation succinctly describes the contents of this film: “One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive, and three-quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive.” This documentary explores the food industry, from GMOs to pesticides, in an attempt to discover what’s causing us to get sick.
This documentary compares the Western diet with that of other countries, which have lower rates of cancer and heart disease. Are we ignoring the link between meat and dairy consumption and disease in order to protect the status quo? Also check out Forks Over Knives—The Extended Interviews.
In this documentary, Rip Esselstyn, former firefighter and author of The Engine 2 Diet, performs a “kitchen rescue” on two families, saving them from their bad eating habits and guiding them toward a healthier diet.
The subject of this award-winning documentary is photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, whose photographs challenge our view of animals as food and clothing as well as animal-tested goods and animal entertainment.
Are you ready to transform your life?
This documentary tells the moving story of an unhealthy and overweight middle-aged man who visits Café Gratitude in California. With the assistance of Café Gratitude employees, he undergoes a life-changing transformation that you don’t want to miss.
This documentary explains the toll that the meat industry is taking on the planet’s environment.
Fighting poverty is big business. But who profits the most? Recommended by my friend Juray in Europe. POVERTY, INC.
This documentary tells the tale of a man who subsists entirely on McDonald’s food for one month and all the disturbing effects that his experiment has on his body and mind.
That Sugar Film by Jamie Oliver is one that made the biggest difference to me recently. Combined with Max our Grandson's story, and all the research we'd carried out into the need for oil pulling, That Sugar Film and the other movies like it from the USA and NZ tipped us over the edge to make MouthMonsters.
It was 20 years ago that an elephant named Tyke—who could no longer take the abuse that she experienced in the circus—crushed her trainer and escaped from a Honolulu arena. This is her story.
This hard-hitting documentary calls out the Canadian facility for its duplicitous claims, conflicts of interest, and culpability in beluga mortality.
Vegucated follows three people who go vegan for six weeks as an experiment. In the process, they discover the truth behind the meat they so recently enjoyed, including the cruelty to animals and environmental destruction that it causes. The effects are powerful, and they’re forced to re-evaluate their life and diet.
And check out the 10 most inspirational movies of all time, too
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