By Stanley Kramer (1959)
From IMDb: “The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.”

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(1981)
Boston’s history has included a long reach for adequate water supplies. The city controls a complex system of aqueducts and reservoirs stretching 80 miles into western Massachusetts and culminating in the large Quabbin Reservoir, which was created in the 1930s by flooding four towns and six villages. This documentary focuses on Boston’s latest, bitterly controversial [...]

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(2001)
While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for even scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful future.
In his vision humanity takes nature itself as our guide reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes.
Can’t happen? It’s [...]

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By Charlie Chaplin (1936)
Henry Ford vs. stochastic chaos in the form of The Little Tramp. IMDb: “Long after most people thought the silent movie had been buried forever, Chaplin brought his “Little Fellow” out of mothballs for one more magnificent motion picture. The Tramp is trapped in a factory, performing mind-numbing repetitive tasks, and finally [...]

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By Fritz Lang (1927)
IMDb: “Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking landmark remains one of the biggest mysteries in the world of cinema. How can a movie that’ll soon turn 80 years old still look so disturbingly futuristic?? The screenplay by Thea Von Harbou is still very haunting and courageously assails social issues that are of all ages. The [...]

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Animation by Vanzo (1995)
I have a VHS tape collection of the show’s segments that aired on MTV’s “Liquid Television” years ago. Julie the social worker lives in a rundown apartment and deals with the mean streets of the city. She gradually gets in touch with her subconscious and spirit animal in the Pangean Outback. Together, [...]

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Produced by Melvyn Hopper
See http://www.lifewithprinciple.org/, sponsored by the Thoreau Society http://www.thoreausociety.org/. The DVD costs $250 for educational use and includes:
The 56-minute film, Life with Principle, which features commentary that follow six themes present in Thoreau’s writings. The themes are:
Hearing That Different Drummer
Being Awake, Aware, and Alive
Examining Desperate and Deliberate Lives
Living in Society
Living in Nature
Confronting the [...]

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Kilowatt Ours is an inspirational and enlivening film that demonstrates how easy it is to conserve energy that is produced from traditional sources as well as the many ways the average consumer can easily become part of the renewable energy revolution. The film reveals the connection between personal choices and energy use and introduces us [...]

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By Claude Berri (1993)
From IMDb: “The film is the rendition of Emile Zola’s 1885 novel of the same name examining the difficult lives of French miners. The movie, which on the whole remains true to the original story.”

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By Lizius & Jungjohann (1990)
As a brief biography of Lovelock and his ecoscience, this should need no further description. But here it is, from Bullfrog Films: “The Gaia Hypothesis is one of the most exciting new scientific theories to emerge in the 20th century. It’s the work of a British scientist, James Lovelock, who believes [...]

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