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...

Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.

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

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...

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...

There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive....

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

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

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

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

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...

In a drought-struck region in India, suffering from climate change and a high suicide rate amongst farmers, a group of resilient women farmers, who...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...