Racing Extinction
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, along with activists, scientists and others, draws attention to mankind's role in a potential loss of at least half of the world's species. The documentary follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
28 June 1971, Pretoria, South Africa
12 September 1980, Shanghai, China
18 February 1974, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
April 15, 1957 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA
15 April 1957, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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November 30, 2015
This new wave of films wants to make environmental films that aren't just educational and enraging but poignant, exciting - and even beautiful.
September 17, 2015
If you've ever wondered what a breaking heart sounds like, it's right here in the futile warble of the last male of a species of songbird, singing for a mate that will never come.
February 10, 2016
A horror flick about the blundering of humanity on a scale so enormous that global warming is only a small part of it. But its monster is not unconquerable.
November 24, 2015
It's as if we're being asked, once again, to believe that rock n' roll will really save the world.
January 11, 2016
This movie is scary and depressing, but it also gave me some hope.
September 21, 2015
If a documentary can be both alarming and oddly reassuring, it's the gripping splash of cold cinematic water "Racing Extinction."
September 17, 2015
Racing Extinction tends to be far more effective when presenting its enlightened activists as heroes.
January 01, 2016
A chilling rallying cry exhorting humanity to save the planet from climate change , if it's not already too late.
October 23, 2015
A prophetic call for action against capitalist waste of natural resources, as well as some stunningly beautiful vistas above and below the ocean. It took six years to make the film and it shows.
September 15, 2015
Maybe the film's website, where viewers are directed to actually learn about how to stop killing the planet, holds more answers than Racing Extinction itself.
November 24, 2015
A special interest documentary, something for schools to show as an educational tool, is conventionally helmed as a lecture by the marine activist Louie Psihoyos.
September 17, 2015
The film is a captivating, sobering look at the world's endangered aquatic species, but it's also a frightening revelation of what methane and carbon are doing to the ocean.
