A Level Geography Revision Playlist
People learn and revise through a range of methods, including watching videos and listening to podcasts. Despite this, however, there aren’t many compiled resources for A Level Geography available. That’s why we’ve written this revision playlist, to help you get the best multimedia resources to learn the way you want.
Get to grips with challenging topics, extend your existing knowledge and feel more confident with geographical issues. We’ve split our revision playlist into different sections, so have an explore! Something you’ve found useful and want us to mention? Let us know!
Movies
Some amazing films and documentaries to bring physical and human geography to life.
- Frozen Planet II (BBC, 2022): David Attenborough documentary series covering polar and glacial environments, ice sheet retreat, and permafrost. Strong links to Glacial Systems and Landscapes.
- One Planet: Seven Worlds (BBC): continent-by-continent look at ecosystems, climate and human impact.
- Chasing Coral (2017): documentary on coral bleaching and ocean warming. Useful for global systems and climate change topics.
- Erin Brockovich (2000): water contamination and corporate accountability. Good discussion starter for water resource management.
- The Age of Stupid (2009): docu-drama on climate change and its human consequences.
- Before the Flood (2016): Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted documentary on the causes and impacts of climate change.
- Ice on Fire (2019): documentary on lesser-known drivers and solutions to climate change, including permafrost methane release.
- Human Flow (2017): Ai Weiwei’s documentary on global migration and displacement. Ties into Global Systems and Governance and Changing Places.
- Dirty Wars (2013): explores geopolitics and conflict, relevant to global governance and power.
- Trashed (2012): Jeremy Irons documentary on the global waste crisis. Links to resource management and sustainability.
- The True Cost (2015): documentary on the human and environmental cost of the fast fashion industry. Useful for global systems, trade and development.
- Cowspiracy (2014): the environmental impact of animal agriculture, relevant to global resources and sustainability debates.
- Into the Inferno (2016): Werner Herzog documentary exploring volcanoes and the cultures that live alongside them. Links to Hazards.
- Blackfish (2013): though centred on marine parks, raises wider questions about human-environment interaction.
- Detroit: Ruin of a City (2010): urban decline and regeneration in a former industrial city. Links to Contemporary Urban Environments.
- The Salt of the Earth (2014): Sebastião Salgado’s photography documentary spanning global environmental and human geography themes.
- Twister / Twisters (1996 / 2024): dramatised depictions of tornado hazards. A lighter entry point into atmospheric hazards.
- San Andreas (2015): disaster film built around a hypothetical major earthquake. Useful (with a critical eye) for discussing seismic hazard perception.
- The Impossible (2012): dramatisation of a family’s experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Good for hazard impact and response.
TV Shows
YouTube Videos
Articles / Newspapers
Podcasts / Radio Shows
Books
If there are other items that you think should be in our revision playlist, let us know!
