Editing Aral Sea (section)

==Films==
The Aral Sea and its desertification were seen in the 1988 film ''[[The Needle (1988 film)|The Needle]]'' starring [[Viktor Tsoi]] of Kino fame.

The plight of the Aral coast was portrayed in the 1989 film [[Stray Dogs (1989 film)|''Stray Dogs'']] by Soviet director Dmitri Svetozarov.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.kinoexpert.ru/index.asp?comm=4&num=5583|title=Psy|publisher=Kino Expert|access-date=18 September 2009}}</ref> The film was shot on location in an actual [[ghost town]] located near the Aral Sea, showing scenes of abandoned buildings and scattered vessels.

In 2000, the MirrorMundo foundation produced a documentary film called ''[[Delta Blues (documentary film)|Delta Blues]]'' about the problems arising from the drying up of the sea.<ref>{{cite web|date=5 November 2008|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0465vGRWhQE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/0465vGRWhQE| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Delta Blues (in a land of cotton)|publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=18 July 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In June 2007, [[BBC World]] broadcast a [[documentary]] called ''Back from the Brink?'' made by Borna Alikhani and Guy Creasey, which showed some of the changes in the region since the introduction of the Aklak Dam.

[[Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov]]'s 2012 movie ''[[Waiting for the Sea]]'' deals with the impacts on people's life in a fishing town at the shore of the Aral Sea.

In 2012 Christoph Pasour and Alfred Diebold produced an 85-minute film with the title ''From the Glaciers to the Aral Sea'' which shows the water management system in the Aral Sea basin and in particular the situation around the Aral Sea. The film was first screened at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, in 2012 and was available on the website waterunites-ca.org<ref>{{cite web |title=Videos - From the Glaciers to the Aral Sea - Water Unites |website=www.waterunites-ca.org |url=http://www.waterunites-ca.org/videos.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023165828/https://www.waterunites-ca.org/videos.html |archivedate=23 October 2019}}</ref> and on Alfred Diebold's YouTube channel ''waterunitesca''.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ctJzg6DiI_I Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190110094129/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJzg6DiI_I&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |title=Water Unites - From the Glaciers to the Aral Sea |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJzg6DiI_I |website=youtube| date=19 January 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In October 2013, [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] produced a [[documentary film]] called ''People of the Lake'', directed by Ensar Altay, describing the current situation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2012/08/2012857324531428.html|title=People of the Lake|author=Al Jazeera World|access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>

In 2014, director Po Powell shot much of the footage for the [[Pink Floyd]] single "[[Louder than Words (Pink Floyd song)|Louder than Words]]" video near the remains of the Aral Sea on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/pink-floyd-louder-than-words-video-20141110|title=Watch Pink Floyd's Surreal, Sun-Baked 'Louder Than Words' Video|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=4 December 2015|date=10 November 2014}}</ref>

In October 2018, the [[BBC]] produced a programme called ''Fashion's Dirty Secrets'', a large part of which shows the extent of the shrinking Aral and its consequences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5a1a43b5-cbae-4a42-8271-48f53b63bd07|title=Stacey Dooley Investigates: Are your clothes wrecking the planet?|first=Radhika|last=Sanghani|date=8 October 2018|website=BBC Three}}</ref>

In 2024, Daniel Asadi Faezi and Mila Zhluktenko directed a short film titled ''Aralkum'', which explores the transformation of the Aral Sea into a desert. Published on the Emergence Magazine website, the film portrays the haunting landscape of the [[Aralkum Desert]], which emerged after the Soviet Union diverted the Aral Sea's tributaries for agricultural irrigation. It highlights the environmental consequences of the sea's depletion, such as the desolate ecosystem and the struggles of the remaining inhabitants along the former shoreline.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emergencemagazine.org/film/aralkum/|title=Aralkum|first=Daniel Asadi|last=Faezi|author2=Mila Zhluktenko|date=9 January 2024|website=Emergence Magazine|access-date=12 January 2025}}</ref>