Learn about the plant-based diet and vegan-friendly living in these excellent documentaries. These documentaries detail how a plant based diet benefits your health, the environment/climate, and how to live a cruelty-free life. Scroll down for sections that contain documentaries about health and eating as well. Obviously there is a lot of cross over, so please refer to the description offered on each page.
This page embeds and links to plant-based and vegan related documentaries that you can find online, either on YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Netflix and so on. I also link to related documentaries on sugar consumption, animal welfare topics, environmental issues, and health topics in separate sections (scroll down).
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Table of Contents
While there is certainly a lot of crossover between health, ethics, and more in these documentaries, the vegan documentaries are mainly about ethics although they might also cover a lot about the benefits of eating a fully plant based diet as well. The health documentaries listed below are primarily about food and health or food industry related topics.
Vegan Documentaries
These documentaries are the most connected to ethics and how to make responsible food choices.
- The Animal People (2019 Documentary Series)
- Planet Vegan (2019 Documentary Series)
- Seaspiracy (Documentary – In Production)
- The Game Changers (2018 documentary)
- Dominion (2018 documentary)
- Rotten (2018 Netflix documentary)
- 73 Cows (2018 Documentary)
- Land of Hope and Glory (2017 Documentary)
- The Invisible Vegan (2017 documentary)
- What the Health (2017 documentary)
- Eating You Alive (2016 Documentary)
- Before the Flood (2016 documentary – environment focus)
- Vegan 2016 – THE FILM: A Growing Movement Under Attack (2016 documentary)
- Food Choices (2016 documentary)
- Plant Pure Nation (2015 documentary)
- Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (2010 & 2014 documentaries)
- Cowspiracy (2014 documentary)
- Lucent (2014 documentary)
- Live and Let Live (2013 documentary)
- Forks Over Knives and Engine 2 Diet (2011 documentaries)
- Vegucated (2010 documentary)
- Death on a Factory Farm (2009 documentary)
- Earthlings (2005 documentary)
Health focused documentaries
These documentaries are primarily health related topics, but are related to this food-focused website.
