Scholarly Resources

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Feature Films, Documentaries, and other Audio-Visual Resources with STS-related content

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1984

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Adjuster

And the Band Played On, directed by Spotiswode. USA: 1993 (discovery of the AIDS virus)

Blade Runner

Capricorn One describes in fiction how a landing on Mars was not real, but filmed in a studio

The China Syndrome

A Clockwork Orange

Contact

The Conversation, surveillance, wiretapping, and dark struggles of the soul

The Day the Earth Stood Still (electricity)

Desk Set (office technology)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Equilibrium (2002) directed by Kurt Wimmer. In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death.

eXistenZ

Fail-Safe

Fairytale - A True Story (1997) featuring Arthur Conan Doyle (for) Harry Houdini (against) in the true story of contested photographs of fairies produced by two girls in 1920s England

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control human impulse to control nature, the nature of life & death, consciousness

Frankenstein

Gattaca

Een geschenk uit de hemel, De slag om de Brent Spar, Kees de Groot van Embden, 2000, VPRO-television, Hilversum.

The Governess

Human Nature (M.Gondry)
Comments on the nature-human divide in post/late/modernity

Kinsey

Kitchen Stories. A feature film based on a Swedish study in the 1950s of how bachelors use their kitchens. This is the last word on the anachronistic, social scientific ideal of "observation" without "participation."

The Man in the White Suit (plastics / new fibers)

Matrix trilogy

Metropolis

The Milagro Beanfield War (environment / water / politics)

Mindwalk, based on Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point

Minority Report

Modern Times

The Mouse That Roared (atomic bomb humor)

The Net

Never Cry Wolf

Primer

Princess Mononoke

Robocop

The Russians Are Coming

Soft Science
by Rachel Mayeri, a compilation of videos by artists and scientists she put together, as a resource. Topics include genomics, scientists, pharmecuticals, ecology, synthetic biology...

Soylent Green (environment / food industry)

Species

Super-size Me

The Terminator

Time Bandits

Todo sobre mi madre - dir.Pedro Almodovar

Tron

The Truman Show

War Games

The Way to Eden (Robert-Adrian Pejo)
Documentary about the craft of systematically taking apart bodies, and ultimately about dignity inside the iron cage of modern rationality.

Who Killed the Electric Car

The Wizard of Oz