My procedure is based on Jäger’s analytical approach consisting of the two main stages of structural and detailed analysis: In my adaption the two build on each other but can also stand side by side as separate studies. In the structural analysis, I pursue the goal of exploring climate documentaries in their entirety as a thread of discourse. I explain my methods in creating my corpus of documentary films from 2006 onwards and the subsequent categorization of these 129 films into four types of distinct approaches in climate documentary films. While the structural analysis provides an overview of the discourse thread of climate documentary films and operates on the level of schematic sociology offering a typology, the detailed analysis attends to a smaller sample of twenty films and is explicitly dedicated to a close reading of meaning-making. I thereby reason my working methods and explain my selection for the sample of documentary films from 2016 onwards.