• The Atomic bomb collection
  DVD 355.825119 At 6 b
  Documentary films which chronicle the top secret, strange and visually compelling history and motivation for design, production and testing of Atomic and Hydrogen bombs by the United States.

Organizations, agencies, advocacy groups, activism

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Philosophy, ethics, religion, culture and the environment

• Environmental ethics / Eric J. Katz 
  VIDEO 179.1 En 8 e 
  Professor Katz discusses the different approaches to environmental ethics and defends his own holistic approach.   (1996)

• In the light of reverence: Protecting America's sacred lands
  VIDEO 299.7 In L 
  Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religions. This film presents three indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, strip mining and development and New Age religious practitioners.  (2001)
• On making religion earth-friendly / David Korten
  VIDEO 320.973 De 5 u v.43
• Spirit & nature
  VIDEO 179.1 Sp 4 n 
  Discussion of environmental ethics and religious aspects nature, with Bill Moyers.

Pollutants, toxins, pesticides, chemicals

• Alaska: outrage at Valdez 
  VIDEO 628.16833 AL 2 o
  In this Cousteau Society special report, Jean-Michel Cousteau takes us on a voyage to investigate first-hand the devastating impact of the U.S.'s largest oil spill. The Cousteau team questions the lack of precautions, laments the slow clean-up response, and outlines preventive measures so such a disaster may never happen again.   (1989)
• Bioterror
  VIDEO 358.380973 Bi 6
  Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad, authors of the book Germs: biological weapons and America's secret war, trace the history of "black biology" and investigate U.S. involvement in the development of biological weapons.
• Blue Vinyl
  DVD 615.902 BL 8 v
  Skeptical of her parents' decision to re-side their home with polyvinyl chloride, Judith Helfand set out to find the truth behind the toxic effects of the material. Helfand & Daniel Gold travel from Long Island to Louisiana to Venice Italy, where thirty-one executives from a PVC-producing company now await trial for manslaughter. (2005)
• Deadly deception:  General Electric, nuclear weapons and our environment
  VIDEO 363.17 De 2 d
  Expose of the human and environmental effects of General Electric Company's nuclear weapons facilities. Plant workers have been poisoned by radiation and asbestos; neighboring homes have experienced cancers and birth defects. Shows the activists who are working to inform the public and stop the company's dangerous activities.  (1991)
• The Estrogen effect: assault on the male
  VIDEO 571.8
  Examines possible recent environmental factors causing changes to the reproductive systems of male animals and humans. (1998)
• Kids and chemicals
  VIDEO 363.738 Ki 2 c
  Investigates the relationship between environmental contamination and the health of children in the United States. (2002)
• The military and the environment 
  VIDEO 363.6 Mi 5 a
  The Military's handling of toxic wastes at its facilities.   (1990)

• My father's garden
  VIDEO 630.973 My f
  In less than fifty years agriculture has been transformed by synthetic chemicals which have had a serious impact on the environment and on the health of farm families. This film tells the story of two farmers. Herbert Smith, championed the new miracle sprays of the 50's in his orange grove in Florida, while Fred Kirschenmann of North Dakota, steered his land through the transition to organic farming to prove, 20 years later, that sustainable organic agriculture is a viable economic alternative for any size farm.  (1995)

• Putting aside pesticides
  VIDEO 632.95 Pu 7 a
  Discusses the increasing use of agricultural pesticides and their declining effectiveness.  Presents alternative and healthier methods of pest control.  

• Rachel Carson's Silent spring
  VIDEO 632.9 Ra 2 c
  Focuses on Rachel Carson's book: Silent spring, and on the chemical poisoning of the environment. This is the story of how one scientist's courage changed the way we think about our world.   (1993)

• Trade Secrets:  a Moyers report
  VIDEO 338.765 Tr 2 s
  Documentary exposes the 40 year history of the American chemical industry's suppression of information regarding threats to public health by synthetic chemicals being introduced into the environment at all levels.  Addresses the danger to public health by the continued use of approximately 9000 or the 15,000 mass-produced chemical substances that have never undergone toxicological study in the U.S. (2001)

• Up Close and Toxic
  DVD 363.7392 Up c
   This film looks at indoor pollution as it follows a typical yet fictional family as they interact with countless everyday items that are potentially harmful to them.  (2002)

Population issues, human ecology

• Environment
  VIDEO 304.2 En 8
  Explores the environmental impact humans have had on the planet and the future of ecology for the 21st century.
  Man vs. nature -- Ecological awareness begins -- A planet in danger -- Environmental challenges -- A question of survival  (1999)

• Journey to Planet Earth:  Season Two  
  DVD 363.7 Jo 6
  On the Brink:  explores a growing national security threat throughout the world, how environmental pressures can lead to violence, terrorism, and regional conflict.  Travels to areas where environmental degradation and unsustainable development practices have had negative impacts on the quality of life for millions of people.  Journeys to Bangladesh, South Africa, Peru, Haiti, and Mexican/U.S. border.
  Seas of Grass:  investigates the serious threats to one of our most treasured natural resources.  Grasslands cover almost one-third of the Earth's surface, house nearly a billion people, and are in grave danger of disappearing.

• Six billion and beyond
  VIDEO 304.6 Si 9 b
  Explores the issues of population growth and the issues surrounding it: reproductive health, overpopulation, and the environment in six nations: Mexico, Kenya, India, China, Italy, and the United States.

• Water, land, people, & conflict
  VIDEO 363.7 Wa 7 L 
  Today, the greatest threats facing any nation's security may not be military threats. Increasingly, they are complex issues related to the environment, such as: population growth, refugees, and economic stability. National security in the 21st century will need to include the idea that a healthy environment is as vital as military might.   (1998)

Poverty, distribution of resources, “sharing the environmental space”

• Journey to Planet Earth:  Season Two  
  DVD 363.7 Jo 6
  On the Brink:  explores a growing national security threat throughout the world, how environmental pressures can lead to violence, terrorism, and regional conflict.  Travels to areas where environmental degradation and unsustainable development practices have had negative impacts on the quality of life for millions of people.  Journeys to Bangladesh, South Africa, Peru, Haiti, and Mexican/U.S. border.
  Seas of Grass:  investigates the serious threats to one of our most treasured natural resources.  Grasslands cover almost one-third of the Earth's surface, house nearly a billion people, and are in grave danger of disappearing.

• Water, land, people, & conflict
  VIDEO 363.7 Wa 7 L 
  Today, the greatest threats facing any nation's security may not be military threats. Increasingly, they are complex issues related to the environment, such as: population growth, refugees, and economic stability. National security in the 21st century will need to include the idea that a healthy environment is as vital as military might.   (1998)

Resources and resource management, preservation, conservation, wilderness, protected areas, recreation & tourism, parks

• For the good of all
  VIDEO 333.78 Fo 7 g
  Explores the ramifications of the largest federal land acquisition program for new parks in 150 years, specifically at the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area.  Shows how rural communities located in national recreation areas are needlessly destroyed in an attempt to preserve "green space" near large cities.   (1983)
• Human Geography
  VIDEO 304.2 Hu 5 g
  Part 4. Global tourism -- Part 5. Alaska: the last frontier? (1996)
• Rediscovering America:  Champions of the land
  VIDEO 570.92 Re 2 a
  A look at five pioneers of conservation in the United States including John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, and Rachel Carson.  (1997)
• Yellowstone under fire
   VIDEO 333.78 Ye 5 u
  Examines the impact of exploration for oil and minerals and the timber industry on Yellowstone National Park.   (1989)   
• Wild by law
  VIDEO 333.782 Wi 5 L
  The Wilderness Act of 1964 is the legacy of three men: Wilderness Society Founder Bob Marshall, forester-philosopher Aldo Leopold, and activist Howard Zahniser. Looks at how these three men struggled against the current of American thought during industrialization of the 1920s, the war years of the 1940s, and the boom years of the 1950s. Eventually their actions caused a profound shift in American attitudes toward preservation of wild lands.   (1991)
• The Wilderness idea
  VIDEO 333.782 Wi 5 j
  Traces the paths of Gifford Pinchot and John Muir and their battles as preservationist vs. utilitarianist in the controversy about wilderness.   (1989)
• Wildland
  VIDEO 333.78 Wi 5
  "Our subduing the Earth has taken a toll upon ourselves, our sense of who we are as a people... but there is something left. And as it shrinks in size, our sense of its rareness and value grows... I think there's a willingness among the American people to draw a line and to say: "No more" --Dr. Robert Cox, Sierra Club President.  (2000)

Sustainable development

• Human geography: people, places and change
  VIDEO 304.2 Hu 5 g
  1. Imagining new worlds -- 2. Reflections on a global screen -- 3. Global firms in the industrializing East -- 4. Global tourism -- 5. Alaska: the last frontier? -- 6. Population transition in Italy -- 7. Water is for fighting over -- 8. A migrant's heart -- 9. Berlin: changing center of a changing Europe -- 10. The world of the dragon.
• Journey to Planet Earth:  Season Two  
  DVD 363.7 Jo 6 onb
  On the Brink:  explores a growing national security threat throughout the world, how environmental pressures can lead to violence, terrorism, and regional conflict.  Travels to areas where environmental degradation and unsustainable development practices have had negative impacts on the quality of life for millions of people.  Journeys to Bangladesh, South Africa, Peru, Haiti, and Mexican/U.S. border.
  Now with Bill Moyers:  August 30, 2002
  VIDEO 333.95 Mo 9 n
  Discussions on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Earth Summit) held in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Participants include authors Nadine Gordimer and Bjorn Lomborg, Ricardo Navarro (chair, Friends of the Earth), Fred Smith, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Jeffrey Sacks, and Justin Lin. 

Technology, effects on environments and humans

Waste and waste management

• Race to save the planet
  VIDEO 363.7 Ra 2 s
  v. 8.  Waste not, want not

Water, water supply, water pollution, irrigation

• America's first river: Bill Moyers on the Hudson 
  VIDEO 577.640974 Am 3 f
  A waterway of ethereal beauty and vast commercial utility, the Hudson River has been both a medium for communing with nature and a
  convenient sewer for industrial waste. Over the course of this two-part series, Bill Moyers explores the dramatic history, complex ecology, profound natural beauty, and far-reaching legacy of the nation's conflict between its deep love of nature and its relentless desire for development. Archival film, photos, paintings, engravings, journal entries, book excerpts, and breathtaking location footage illustrate the many faces of the Hudson while historians, environmentalists, and others explain how colliding agendas have combined to shape the story of America's first river. (2002)
• Cadillac desert: water and the transformation of nature
  VIDEO 333.91 Ca 26 d
  Cadillac desert relates the story of the epic quest for water and the role it has played in the vast transformation of the American West and many parts of the world.   (1997) 
• Chad Pregracke, the river rescuer
  DVD 333.9162 Ch 2 r   
  Follows Chad Pregracke as he leads the effort to clean up the garbage in the Mississippi and its tributaries. (2004)
• Crisis planet earth and Into the depths
  VIDEO 551.6 Cr 4 p
  Covers two stories that impact the environment: global warming and how it is measured; and pollution damage to Lake Superior.  (1997)
• Empty oceans, empty nets
  VIDEO 333.956 Em 6 o
  Explores the immense changes threatening marine fisheries worldwide.  Examines the full extent of the global fisheries crisis and the forces that continue to push many marine fish stocks towards commercial extinction. Also documents some of the innovative work being done to restore fisheries and protect essential fish habitat. (2002)
• Finite oceans
  VIDEO 551.46 Fi 5 o
  Although humans have long assumed that the oceans are too vast to ruin, it is becoming clear that they cannot absorb, dissolve, and purify all that we produce. Finite oceans wakes us up to the limitations of the oceans as it explores new ways we can repair the damage that has already been done.   (1999)
• The Flood of '93
  VIDEO 977 FL 6 n
  Stories from 5 midwest public television stations about the flood on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.   When it rains / Iowa Public Television -- Who gets a levee / KETC, St. Louis -- A tale of two cities / WQPT, Moline, Ill. -- Standstill / KTCA, St. Paul -- Hard rain / KTCA, St. Paul -- Letting the river win / Wisconsin Public Television.   
• Goodbye Louisiana
  (This is a film, but it could be transferred to video.)
  Examines theories that tampering with the Mississippi River is destroying the southern Louisiana delta, its wildlife, and human habitation (1982)
• Great Wall across the Yangtze
  VIDEO 333.9100951 Gr 3 w 
  Investigates the profound changes the Three Gorges dam will bring to China's people, environment , and history.   (2000)
• Human geography: people, places and change
  VIDEO 304.2 Hu 5 g
  Part 7:  Water is for fighting over.  (1996)
• Journey to planet Earth
  VIDEO 304.2 Jo 8 t
  Part 1: Rivers of destiny -- part.2: The Urban explosion -- part.3: Land of plenty, land of want.   Part 1 journeys to four major river systems of the world to investigate the environmental problems facing those whose lives depend upon the health of the river.
  The Mississippi:  Upstream towns are raged by periodic floods, while the health of the river's fishery is threatened by the loss of nutrient-rich sediments.
  The Amazon:  Brazilian fishermen struggle to make a living as aquatic life in the world's mightiest river is affected by deforestation.
  The Jordan:  In the arid landscape of the Middle East, availability of water is determined as much by politics as by the environment.
  The Mekong:  On a waterway that sustains people from six different nations, the Vietnamese are affected by upstream development and an economic boom.  (1999)
• The Plow that broke the Plains
  VIDEO 978 PL 6 t
  The story of America's Great Plains, which details the ravages of drought and the area's history, and the migration of farmers to the Pacific Coast.
• Pond & river
  VIDEO 577.6 Po 5 r 
  A mixture of animation and live footage serves as a background for a narrated introduction to the biological life of rivers and ponds and their influence on the history of human beings.   (1996)
• Thirst
  DVD 333.91 Th 38
  The survival of communities is threatened when big business buys the water supply. (2004)
• Thirsty Planet.  Testing the limits of possibility:  massive dams and waterworks
  DVD 333.91 Th 4 t
  Looks at the construction of dams examining the positive and negative impact as well as the politics and economics of several ongoing or proposed projects: China's Three Gorges Dam, Egypt's Mubarak pumping station, pit-mine reclamation in Germany's Lausitz Region, and Spain's controversial national hydrological plan for the Ebro River.  (2003)
• Thirsty planet.  Water for profit
  DVD 333.91 Th 4 w
  When demand outpaces supply, water becomes a commodity to be traded on the global market. But who owns water and how can a price be set on water? In this program the pros and cons of privatization are assessed in a number of water management situations around the world: Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires; the Bechtel Corporation in Cochabamba, Bolivia; Thames Water Company in Jakarta and a public/ private test partnership in Albania.  (2004)
• Thirsty planet.  Waters of discord
  Almost half the world gets its drinking water from rivers that cross national boundaries. Analysts predict that more wars will be fought over water than oil. This program surveys a number of active or potential hot spots: Israel and the river Jordan; the Southeastern Anatolia Project in Turkey and its effects on Syria and Iraq; Egypt's Toshka Canal and the Nile Basin Initiative; and the Tehri dam in India. The program also looks at the effects of the Hoover dam on the Colorado River delta in Mexico and the success of Lesotho's Katse dam.
• Water, land, people, & conflict
  VIDEO 363.7 Wa 7 L 
  Today, the greatest threats facing any nation's security may not be military threats. Increasingly, they are complex issues related to the environment, such as: population growth, refugees, and economic stability. National security in the 21st century will need to include the idea that a healthy environment is as vital as military might.   (1998)

• The Wetlands
  VIDEO 577.68 We 7
  Explores swamps and marshes through the stories of people working to protect the land they love.   (1994)

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Feature films

• African Queen
  VIDEO 791.43 Af 7 q
  Two very different people find themselves thrown together in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 and together they embark on a dangerous mission to destroy a German gunboat.  (1951)
• Apocalypse Now
  VIDEO 791.43 Ap 6 n
  Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's "heart of darkness" revealed through the peculiar madness of the Vietnam War.  Robert Duvall's defoliation scene is famous.
• Bambi
  VIDEO 791.433 Ba 5
  This animated Disney film has had a lasting impact on how people view hunting and forest fires.
• Baraka
  VIDEO 304.2 Ba 7 
  A world wide odyssey to capture the images which would tell the story of the earth's evolution and of human diversity, interconnectedness and impact on the surrounding world.  More of an art film, it juxtaposes the environmental and human relationship with an eerie minimalist score.
• Blade runner
  VIDEO 791.43 BL 27 r
  Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty
• Brazil
  DVD 791.43 Br 27
  VIDEO 791.43 Br 27
  Set in a futuristic techno-world dehumanized and denaturalized.
• Castaway
  DVD 791.43 Ca 7 a
  A systems engineer's life abruptly changes when a plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island.  
• Chinatown
  VIDEO 791.43 Ch 52
  Water problems in California as a backdrop to corruption.
• A Civil Action
  DVD 791.43 Ci 8 a
  Dramatization of the civil trial in Massachusetts charging the W.R. Grace Company with polluting the groundwater.
• Cold Mountain
  DVD 791.43 Co 5 m
  Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
• The Core
  DVD 791.43 Co 72
   A team of top scientific minds from around the world are assembled to determine what has been happening to Earth. Dr. Keyes makes the startling discovery that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse. Keyes assembles a team to burrow to the center of the planet and bomb the insides back into action.  However, as the crew digs deeper into the Earth, the more they discover what they haven't been told about their mission and what's really been causing the worldwide chaos.
• Dances with wolves
  VIDEO 791.43 Da 45 w
  Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a Sioux tribe is his only neighbor.  Great footage of buffalo, wolves, and prairie.
• Day After Tomorrow
  DVD 791.43 Da 9 a
  Global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age.
• Deliverance
  VIDEO 791.43 De 48
  Four men from the city canoe down a Georgia river determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand. 
• Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  VIDEO 791.43 Dr 7 s
  DVD 791.43 Dr 7 s
  A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
• Dersu Uzula
  VIDEO 791.43 De 7 u
  In eastern Siberia, 1902, a native hunter befriends the leader of a Russian mapping expedition and becomes its guide and primitive philosopher.
• Enemy of the People
  VIDEO 812.54 Mi 5 ene  (1990 version)
  DVD 812.54 Mi 6 en  (1966 NET Playhouse version)
  Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's play.   In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to
  disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.
• Erin Brockovich
  VIDEO 791.43 Er 4 b
  DVD 791.43 Er 4 b
  Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces an attorney to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a law case against a giant corporation for water pollution. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin a legal fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
• Fantasia
  DVD 791.433 Wa 5 di
  The Disney masterpiece.  Of special interest is "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
• Flood: a river's rampage
  DVD 791.43 FL 6
  The people of a small Missouri farming town struggle to stand their ground against the uncontrolled fury of the raging Mississippi River.
• The Gods Must be Crazy
  VIDEO 791.43 Go 2 m
  An empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near an African San hunter and is brought into his camp, but after causing much trouble to the group, he tries to return the bottle to the gods who must have dropped it.  Contrasts the ways of the Bushmen with "civilized" behavior.
• The Gold Rush
  VIDEO 791.43617 Ch 2 go
  Charlie Chaplin plays a Lone Prospector who seeks his fortune in the Klondike.
• Gorillas in the Mist
  VIDEO 791.43 Go 7 m
  Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas, and stays.
• Grapes of Wrath
  VIDEO 791.43 Gr 26 w
  The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.  
• Greystoke, the legend of Tarzan, lord of the apes
  VIDEO 791.43 Gr 35 L
  The 1983 adaptation of E. R. Burroughs.  Gorgeous jungle setting.  Man raised among the apes tries to return to civilization, but is especially upset with how the "civilized" treat their captured apes.
• Koyaanisgatsi:  life out of balance
  DVD 303.483 Ko 9
  Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
• Last of the Mohicans
  VIDEO 791.43 La 72 o
  The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
• Lion King
  VIDEO 791.433 Li 6 k
  The "circle of life" seen from a lion's point of view. (Disney)
• Local Hero
  VIDEO 791.43 Lo 2 h
  An American oil company representative wants to buy a sleepy seaside Scottish village to build a refinery.  The locals and a mermaid intervene.  (1983)
• The Lorax
  VIDEO 791.433 Lo 7
  While a Lorax speaks for the trees, a Once-ler is chopping down the forest. Animated conservation message for children.  From the Dr. Seuss book.
• Lord of the Flies
  VIDEO 791.43 Lo 75 f
  Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys completely cut off from society who revert to brutal, primitive savagery.  (1963)
• The Man who planted trees
  VIDEO 791.433 Ma 7 w
  A beautifully animated parable about how the power of determination can turn a desert into an oasis.
• Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
  VIDEO 791.43 Ma 73 s
  Based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
• Milagro Beanfield War
  VIDEO 791.43 Mi 5 b
• The Mission
  VIDEO 791.43 Mi 675
  A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
• The Mosquito Coast
  VIDEO 791.43 Mo 7 c
  Fed up and angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, a brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
• Never Cry Wolf
  VIDEO 599.74442 Mo 7 ne
  Based on the book by Farley Mowat.  A young, inexperienced biologist is deposited alone onto the desolate Arctic terrain. Once settled, he struggles to endure the forces of nature as he documents the mysterious habits of the wolves he has been sent to study.
• Out of Africa
  VIDEO 791.43 Ou 7 a
  DVD 791.43 Ou 7 a
  The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.  To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land and its people.  Gorgeous African scenery.  Point of view?  
•  Pocahontas
  VIDEO 791.433 Po 2
  (Disney) Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan meets up with a shipful of English settlers led by captain John Smith.   Native Americans and English settlers learn to live side by side in early America.  (1995)
• A River Runs Through It
  VIDEO 791.43 Ri 8 r
  Director Robert Redford captures the majesty of the Montana Wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean's classic autobiography. (1992)
• Silkwood
  VIDEO 791.43 Si 53
  Based on the story of Karen Silkwood who is poisoned by plutonium in the town plant. She speaks out against the plant's safety hazards and loses her job, many of her friends and her life in a mysterious accident. (1995)
• Soylent Green
  DVD 791.43 So 9 g
  Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is  almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent.  As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green."  (1973)
• Where the green ants dream
  VIDEO 791.43 Wh 3 g
  A sympathetic geologist for a uranium mining company must confront the passive resistance of the Aborigine tribes. The spots where the deposits are richest is sacred ground, the place "where the green ants dream" for them the origin of all life. (1985)
• The Yes Men
  DVD 791.43 Ye 7 m
  With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed - hook, line and sinker - the Yes Men must up the satirical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.  (2005)

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