7 Vegan Documentaries to Watch on Netflix, YouTube & Amazon
If you’re thinking of going more plant-based or becoming vegan and are keen to learn more about the benefits of veganism for your own personal health, global sustainability and animal welfare, these documentaries are available to watch on either Netflix, YouTube, Amazon or on their own independent websites.
1. The Game Changers
The Game Changers tells the story of elite Special Forces trainer and The Ultimate Fighter winner, James Wilks, as he travels the world on a quest to uncover the optimal diet for human performance.
Directed by Oscar®-winning documentary filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and Chris Paul, the film provides fascinating insights into the impacts of a vegan diet for the world’s elite athletes.
Showcasing sports professionals, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons and everyday folk, what James discovers changes his understanding of food, protein and his definition of true strength.
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https://gamechangersmovie.com/
2. Fantastic Fungi
Fantastic Fungi is a film about mycelium, an incredible underground network beneath our feet that can heal and save our planet.
Narrated by Brie Larson, this consciousness-shifting documentary takes us on an immersive journey of the fungi kingdom through time and scale into the magical earth.
Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors like Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil and Eugenia Bone, we learn the beauty, intelligence and solutions that mushrooms such as Lion’s Mane offer in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic and environmental challenges.
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3. Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground is an inspiring film that reveals a stunningly simple solution to solving the climate crisis.
Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, we learn that by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilise Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and all whilst creating an abundance of food supplies.
The ground-breaking documentary uses compelling visuals to artfully illustrate how soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle. We learn how by restoring our soils, we can draw down atmospheric carbon to store in the ground and radically improve the nutrition of plant-based food simultaneously.
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https://kissthegroundmovie.com/
4. What the Health
What the Health follows intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases.
With heart disease and cancer the leading causes of death in America and diabetes at an all-time high, the film reveals individuals who have transformed their health and are in recovery after only a matter of weeks by switching to a whole foods plant-based diet.
With the help of medical doctors and researchers, What the Health is a surprising and informative, investigative documentary that shines a light on the current US approach to national health and provides insight into similar health practices in other countries across the globe.
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https://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/
5. Cowspiracy
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a feature-length environmental documentary about the devastating global impacts of animal agriculture.
Responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry and the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, the film reveals animal agriculture is the primary cause of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion and ocean dead zones.
This hard-hitting documentary reveals the environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet and offers a path to global sustainability through the shift to a plant-based diet.
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6. Seaspiracy
Seaspiracy is an eye-opening documentary about commercial fishing and the destructive impacts to marine wildlife, our oceans and the seafood workers who risk their lives.
Charting a course from different locations across the world, the film makers uncover the horrors of the fishing industry where approximately 300,000 dolphins, whales and porpoises are unintentionally killed by fishing operations every year and 30,000 sharks are killed every hour.
Originally starting out as a film to portray the wonders of marine life, the team witnessed first-hand fishing’s role in the decimation of habitat and set out to expose how the global industrial fishing industries are operating, as well as the actions we can all take to save our seas.
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7. EARTHLINGS
Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, EARTHLINGS is an American documentary film about humankind’s total dependence on animals for economic purposes.
Presented in five chapters including pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research the film was written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson and features music by Moby.
Filmed using hidden cameras in 2005, EARTHLINGS uncovers the day-to-day practices at some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely on animals for profit.
Thought-provoking and powerful, the feature-length documentary unveils the connection between nature, animals and humans.
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