I love movies highlighting beautiful gardens and the passionate gardeners who create them. By creating a master list of inspiring movies and documentaries, I don’t have to waste time looking for something to watch.
- I can curl up on couch with a cozy blanket and spot of tea and be transported to lovelier spaces
- I can fight insomnia by listening to the movie as I slowly drift off
- I can enjoy while slogging away on my exercise bike
Many of these can be found on Amazon Prime, Netflix, IMBd, or Youtube. Also check out: https://www.filmsforaction.org which has over 9500+ films, documentaries, and short videos.
If you’re looking for other garden media, such as blogs, tv shows, podcasts, and more,START HERE
MOVIES + DOCUMENTARIES + TALKS
- A little Chaos
- A Man Named Pearl (D) . Pearl Frayar Website
- A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (D)
- An Invitation for Wilderness
- Art of the Garden, Dan Pierson: The Garden as Vision (T)
- Back to Eden (D)
- Building the Blue Garden (D)- (32min)
- Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden (D), Celia Thaxter website
- Dare to Be Wild
- Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden (D)_
- Edward Scissorhands
- Enchanted April
- Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
- Gardening with Soul (D)- (IMBd-free membership)
- Gardens of the National Trust (d epsodes)
- Greenfingers
- Keukenhof Gardens and the Dutch Flower Parade (D)- (51 Min)
- Landscapes of Longevity (D)-
- Living With the Land (D)
- Magic of Mushrooms (D)
- Plant this Movie (D)
- Portrait of a Garden (D)
- Possum Living (D)
- Ruth Stout’s Garden (D)
- Secret Gardens of England (D)
- Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (D)- short clip of it
- The Botany of Desire (D)- Michael Pallen
- The Creeping Garden (D)-
- The Garden (D) –
- The Gardener (D)-
- The Queen’s Garden (D) –
- The Secret Garden – (IMBd-free membership)
- The Secret History of the British Garden – Monty Don (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3), (Part 4)
- The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey (D)
- The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
- This Beautiful Fantastic
- Tulipmania (D)
- Women in the Dirt: Landscape Architects Shaping Our World (D)- (IMBd-free membership)