Drought Movies

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his...

Teenager Elias has watched his farming community struggle through season after season of bad crops. When unexplained visions--perhaps from another...

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...

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous...

A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the...

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...

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.

Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot...

Five residents of a tiny village in Catalonia decide to make a report on the drought it is suffering from. A group of young filmmakers accompany them...

Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastructure throughout the USA.

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.

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...

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

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,...

In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in...

A resilient crop-farmer endeavours to preserve his land, legacy and way of life in the face of Australia’s ongoing ‘big dry’.

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...

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from...

Against the backdrop of a Sicily in the midst of a water emergency, two residents of the small town of Rocca Fiorita tackle the problem, one relying...

The Colorado River is the foundation of the American Southwest. But the confluence of a once-in-a-millennium drought, a hundred-year-old mistake, and...