Drought Movies

Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.

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...

After her father dies in an eerie accident at the family's winery, Ellia returns home from the big city to tend to the remaining members of her...

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...

In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never...

In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of...

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

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

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

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

A little girl will have to sing to the mythical goddess of water so that this valuable liquid can reach her community.

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...

A drought-stricken village prays for rain, except for one child who wishes for the opposite, whose prayers will be answered?

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

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Shylo Song must decide whether she, her younger sister, and their grandmother should leave their childhood home...

When severe drought strikes the village on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border Indira fights to make the water accessible in the village.

A worldwide exodus through the desert begins, in search of the last oasis that offers life on the planet.

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part...