Movies on Gardening and Plants

These movies explore gardening and plants and our relationship to them. They are mostly full length movies with high production values.

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Page	Video title	Video description	External Website URL	Amazon ID
A teacher growing green in the South Bronx video 001	A teacher growing green in the South Bronx	A TED talk. Stephen Ritz, a teacher in New York's tough South Bronx, teaches kids to grow lush gardens for food, greenery, and jobs.	http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stephen ritz a teacher growing green in the south bronx.html
Authors@Google: John Jeavons video 001	Authors@Google: John Jeavons	John Jeavons has been the Director of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming program for Ecology Action since 1972. He is the author of How to Grow More Vegetablesand Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, the primer on sustainable Biointensive Mini-Farming. Widely regarded as a food, soil, and organic farming expert, his food-raising methods are being used in 141 countries and by such organizations as UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Peace Corps. John Jeavons website: http://www.johnjeavons.info/ Ecology Action website: http://growbiointensive.org/	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afHd9EhsJ1U
Back to Eden video 001	Back to Eden	Watch Paul Gautschi's journey with God to learn the benefits of using wood chip mulch in the garden. A short video review of the movie by Larry Hall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjptUYhEdU	http://backtoedenfilm.com/
Bloomin In The Garden video 001	Bloomin In The Garden	Garden design and makeovers		B0012GVKYQ
Botany of Desire video 001	Botany of Desire	PBS Documentary on the evolutionary relationship between plants and animals	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUIAzaGWf6A
Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment video 001	A garden in my apartment	A TED talk by Britta Riley about the open-source Hydroponic Window Gardens project.	http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/britta riley a garden in my apartment.html
DIRT! THE MOVIE video 001	DIRT! THE MOVIE	A humorous and serious look at the ground we walk on and our efforts to reconnect with it. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. Free online viewing:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt K4KaBjfo
DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (2007) video 001	DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (2007)	Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank cover plant selection, pest control, pruning, feeding, having year around color, and more.		B000LAZDO2
DVD Encyclopedia of Roses (2007) video 001	DVD Encyclopedia of Roses (2007)	Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank everything about growing roses.		B000LAZDNS
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant video 001	Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant	An amazing and fascinating exploration of symmetry in plants.	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIP Z -0Hs
English Cottage and Country Gardens video 001	English Cottage and Country Gardens	Tour of some English country gardens		B000LMI15I
Everything You Know About Composting is Wrong: Mike Mike McGrath at TEDxPhoenixville video 001	Everything You Know About Composting is Wrong: Mike Mike McGrath at TEDxPhoenixville	Mike explains in a very entertaining way some compost myths and the virtues of shredding leaves. Free Video.	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9OhxKlrWwc
Garden Song video 001	Garden Song	A portrait of Alan Chadwick, actor, master gardener, and inventor of the "Biodynamic French Intensive Method". Looks like it is only available through the listed URL	http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/gs.html
Garden Story (2008) video 001	Garden Story (2008)	Rather than how-to or visits to famous gardens, this focues on how gardens change our lives.		B0018SNYQ0
Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn video 001	Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn	Emmy-winning PBS series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn		B000H6SXS8
Greenfingers video 001	Greenfingers	A British comedy and romance based on a true story of prisoners that develop a passion for gardening.	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfingers	B00005RYKX
Greenhorns video 001	Greenhorns	A documentary film about young farmers. Link is just the trailer	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwnjs4kufG0
Grow Your Own Vegetables video 001	Grow Your Own Vegetables	Cam Mather's Seven Easy Steps to your Own Backyard Produce Department. Cam Mather a 30 veteran of growing organic vegetables gives us a step by step guide for successful vegetable growing.		0973323396
Homestead Blessings: The Art of Gardening (2009) video 001	Homestead Blessings: The Art of Gardening (2009)	For beginning gardeners, how to compost, grow large gardens, grow in containers, flowers, vegetables, etc.		B002SATC2C
How to Grow a Planet (Part 1) - Life from Light video 001	How to Grow a Planet (Part 1) - Life from Light	Part 1 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. Currently available on YouTube	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNt0mwStZI
How to Grow a Planet (Part 2) - The Power of Flowers video 001	How to Grow a Planet (Part 2) - The Power of Flowers	Part 2 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. Currently available on YouTube	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMq1kSzubWs
How to Grow a Planet - The Power of Flowers video 001	How to Grow a Planet (Part 3) - The Challenger	Part 3 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. This episode focuses on how grass has shaped our world and the crucial role it played in human evolution. Currently available on YouTube	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMUJy5QmMDg
How we can eat our landscapes video 001	How we can eat our landscapes	A TED talk. Pam Warhurst, cofounder of Incredible Edible, talks about growing food locally by planting on unused land throughout the community.	http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pam warhurst how we can eat our landscapes.html
King Corn video 001	King Corn	A entertaining and educational documentary that follows two friends efforts to grow corn commercially. Along the way they explore the history and economics for growing corn and how government policies on corn have changed our entire food landscape.	http://www.kingcorn.net	B001EP8EOY
Know your Mushrooms video 001	Know your Mushrooms	Learn more about the fantastic world of funji. Both the oldest and largest living organisms on earth are funji.	http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/know-your-mushrooms	B002C68WSM
People Places & Plants (5 Disc Set) (2005) video 001	People Places & Plants (5 Disc Set) (2005)	46 episodes on five discs, a combination talk, how-to, travel, and reality show about gardening with Roger Swain and Paul Tukey.		B000LPS2PO
Permaculture: Saving Humanity and the Earth video 001	Permaculture: Saving Humanity and the Earth	Toby Hemenway discuses downside of rise of agriculture and how permaculture can provide an alternative. Free Online viewing.	http://keentalks.com/permaculture-saving-humanity-and-the-earth/
Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (2007) video 001	Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (2007)	A very high quality BBC production, a range of topics, but the plant parts are great.		B000MR9D5E
Plants for a Future video 001	Plants for a Future	After ten years as a London bus driver, Ken Fern moves to the country and starts vegan-organic Permaculture garden with an emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment based largely on perennial plants. You can read more about the foundation he established at: http://www.pfaf.org/ Watch free online.	http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/plants-for-a-future
Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot video 001	My subversive (garden) plot	A TED talk by Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, about why you should grow a garden and how it can help re-localize our food.	http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/roger doiron my subversive garden plot.html
Secret Gardens of England video 001	Secret Gardens of England	Alan Titchmarsh leads us on a tour of England's intriguing but not well known gardens.		B003NLQ81I
The Art & Practice of Gardening video 001	The Art & Practice of Gardening	2-DVD set, Penelope Hobhouse England's leading garden writer, designer, historian, and lecturer, and host of The Art and Practice of Gardening explains the principles of graden design as she tours famous gardens.		B0010X5JBG
The Complete Gardener: Great Gardening Tips (2007) video 001	The Complete Gardener: Great Gardening Tips (2007)	Steve Brookes an award wining garden author. He presents money saving and innovative tips and show how to grow edibles not matter how small your garden is.		B000LAZDOC
The Complete Gardener: Planning & Maintenance video 001	The Complete Gardener: Planning & Maintenance	World renowned gardener Joe Maiden shows how to plan and maintain your garden.		B000LAZDOM
The Fruit Hunters video 001	The Fruit Hunters	Documents our obsession with fruits, and our search for them. Trailer: http://vimeo.com/53036651		B00BY8DKCM
The Great Gardens of England Collection video 001	The Great Gardens of England Collection	6-DVD set, Tour 58 English gardens		B003NLQ82M
The Private Live of Plants video 001	The Private Live of Plants	Wonderful book and movie by David Attenborough who also did Planet Earth. Explores many odd and unusual plants with great timelapse video and narration. Sadly the video version does not seem to be available in the USA at the moment
The Queen of the Sun - What Are the Bees Telling Us? video 001	The Queen of the Sun - What Are the Bees Telling Us?	A highly rated move about bees.		B005ZMBDJK
The Real Dirt on Farmer John video 001	The Real Dirt on Farmer John	Has won awards at over 30 film festivals. A documentary that follows Midwestern farmer John Peterson's journey from conventional to organic farming	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Real Dirt on Farmer John	B000WTVZ3U
The Secret Garden video 001	The Secret Garden	A wonderful and classic story of growing up and healing in the garden. Several movie versions are listed in the Wikipedia article.	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Secret Garden The Secret Garden	B002GIBVV6
The Secret Life of Plants video 001	The Secret Life of Plants	A beautiful (but unscientific) look at the concept that plants have more intelligence than we suspect. Some great timelapse sequences of plants growing. The soundtrack recorded by Stevie Wonder. Free online viewing	http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-secret-life-of-plants
The Tree video 001	The Tree	An Australian film about a family and a tree	http://www.thetreefilm.com
Urban Gardening - Ann Tanaka video 001	Urban Gardening - Ann Tanaka	Master Gardner Ann Tanaka talks about a wide range of urban gardening topics with a focus on what works in Hawaii. Free online viewing.	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxynwswCQug

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