Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot Toei's output from yakuza films and Toei Porn towards "global issues" and "whatever makes money", as stated by then-Toei president Shigeru Okada. Theatrical proceeds were to be shared as relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross, though the box office returns are unknown. Footage shot for the documentary by Yoshimitsu Banno would later be reused in the 1974 Toho production Prophecies of Nostradamus.
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Shylo Song must decide whether she, her younger sister, and their grandmother should leave their childhood home in the midst of a disastrous drought.
A drought-stricken village prays for rain, except for one child who wishes for the opposite, whose prayers will be answered?
The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.
A worldwide exodus through the desert begins, in search of the last oasis that offers life on the planet.
Meet Lanz Priestley, a charasmatic homeless man, who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers taps have run dry in drought-stricken outback Australia, he raises the money to deliver drinking water himself.
A resilient crop-farmer endeavours to preserve his land, legacy and way of life in the face of Australia’s ongoing ‘big dry’.
Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.
Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastructure throughout the USA.
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 repaid.
It was based on a poem "Batrak" by Oraz Tachnazarov. Batrak Kurban is denied to get married with his beloved since the girl’s father, a serf, depends on a wealthy landlord. After that, he joins the partisan movement and the Red Army. The story has a happy ending as Kurban marries the girl.
After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a dog which has a unique ability to sing in tune.
The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman to put an end to their anger. A young man in love decides to go in search of water to save the girl from a tragic end, but when he returns with good news it's too late: the genie had his satisfaction and Toula has already disappeared in the holy swamp.
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 magician are surprised to rediscover.
Teenager Elias has watched his farming community struggle through season after season of bad crops. When unexplained visions--perhaps from another world--give Elias hope of a coming miracle, he becomes the key to saving his town.
When severe drought strikes the village on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border Indira fights to make the water accessible in the village.
On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what little they have. As the farmers' daughter prepares to gamble on the final few seeds they have left something appears on the horizon which could be the salvation they have been praying for.
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.