Feature Films, Documentaries, and other Audio-Visual Resources with STS-related content
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Altered States (genetic experimentation, regression)
And the Band Played On, directed by Spotiswode. USA: 1993 (discovery of the AIDS virus)
The Andromeda Strain (alien virus)
Apollo 13 (technological failure & recovery)
Blog Wars (2006) Directed by James Rogan
Brazil. Terry Gilliam's dystopian satire exploring the tensions between beauracracy, technology and human relationships
Buying the War (2007) PBS Frontline with Bill Moyers
Capricorn One describes in fiction how a landing on Mars was not real, but filmed in a studio
Catfish (2010) Created by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.
Control Room (2004) Directed by Jehane Noujaim.
The Conversation, surveillance, wiretapping, and dark struggles of the soul
The Day the Earth Stood Still (electricity)
Desk Set (office technology)
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier (2010) PBS Frontline Directed and Produced by Rachel Dretzin
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.
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
Een geschenk uit de hemel, De slag om de Brent Spar, Kees de Groot van Embden, 2000, VPRO-television, Hilversum.
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) Directed by Morgan Spurlock
Human Nature (M.Gondry) Comments on the nature-human divide in post/late/modernity
Into Eternity (Madsen, 2010) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194612/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoUkhOup1C4&feature=related
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)
Manufacturing Consent (1992) Directed by Mark Achbar and Wintonick
Matrix trilogy
The Milagro Beanfield War (environment / water / politics)
Mindwalk, based on Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point
The Mouse That Roared (atomic bomb humor)
The Persuaders (2004) PBS Frontline Directed by Rachel Dretzin, Barak Goodman
Planet of the Apes (time travel, alternate universe)
The Prestige (using Tesla's alleged technology to perform magic tricks and the problems of teleportation)
Quest for Fire (early human's maintain fire, lose fire, seek fire, learn how to make fire and weapons)
The Race for the Double Helix (original title Life Story) (1987, 97 minutes). Stars Jeff Goldblum as James Watson and Tim Piggot-Smith as Francis Crick. Follows Waton’s Double Helix faithfully and so contains numerous misrepresentations but is still a riveting portrayal of one of the century’s most consequential discoveries.
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)
The Status Films (2011) Directed by Andrew Filippone Jr. A 4-part documentary culled from public Facebook updates
Todo sobre mi madre - dir.Pedro Almodovar
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007) Directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp
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.
We Live in Public (2009) Directed by Ondi Timoner
The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno