Drought Movies

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

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the...

Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.

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...

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

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a...

In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a...

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...

In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to...

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's...

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

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

Amid the dust storms and economic depression of Dust Bowl Era Oklahoma, Eugene Evans finds his family farm on the brink of foreclosure. Discovering...

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...

There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive....

In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million...

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

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by...

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source....