River Movies

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, pl...

This short film from canoeist Bill Mason demonstrates the basic doubles paddling strokes and how to apply them in various combinations. The applicatio...

Pepedrilo and his peculiar connection with nature are embodied by the care and protection of a crocodile sanctuary, whose stability is put in danger d...

A hunter, in his eagerness to hunt a pig, finds himself trapped in the forest.

Near the Oder River, where Poland and Germany meet, the two friends Szymon and Franek spend every free moment at the skatepark. A place where everyone...

Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, th...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alon...

In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's...

Documentary that shows the life of some individual wolves in the mountains of Spain.

The Tagliamento, known as the "King of the Alpine Rivers," is considered Europe's last untamed river. Its course stretches from the peaks of the Dolom...

This short film offers a picturesque tour through the maple-wooded hills alongside Québec's Lièvre River in autumn to the accompaniment of acclaimed p...

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desp...

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism and his own fr...

The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the rive...

A black and white film about the people who live near one of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants in Amazonia. In the shadow of this environmental...

A local legend states that if you're on the river after dark, you may be the victim of The Red Fern Reaper. A group of young adults test that by throw...

During the 1947 partition of Bengal, a man and a woman cross a river to begin life anew. Their journey manifests many roles against the backdrop of so...

Velayudhan, an orphan, is loved by the people in his village, as he keeps it free from unsavoury people and practices. But the local moneylender and p...