Geography Movie Night
Every second Tuesday during Spring Semester 2007 is Geography Movie Night. We will show a range of movies which deal with a variety of geographic and related themes. The movies are open to all, and are shown in the Cartography Lab 5 p.m. All of the movies are suitable for extra credit reviews for Geog 101 (World Regional Geography.) The first movie, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown on Tuesday January 23.
Movie Schedule: Spring 2007
January 23 An Inconvenient Truth
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked-about documentary of the year. An Inconvenient Truth argues that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now.
February 6 Guns, Germs, and Steel: Out of Eden
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and national best seller, Guns, Germs, and Steel is an epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer the biggest question of world history. Why is the world so unequal? The answers he found were simple yet extraordinary. Our destiny depends on geography and access to: Guns, Germs, and Steel.
February 20 Tsunami: The Wave That Shook the World
On December 26, 2004, an undersea section of the Earth's crust slipped along a 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Sumatra, setting in motion a train of destructive waves called tsunamis that left well over 250,000 people dead or missing.
February 27 Battle for the Klamath
The Klamath River, snaking through southern Oregon and northern California through some of the most pristine wilderness remaining in the west, is the focus of an intense battle over fish, water and conflicting ways of life, between upstream farmers and the Bush Administration on one side, and downstream Indian tribes, commercial fishermen and environmentalists on the other.
March 13 World in the Balance
It took all of human history until 1800 for the world’s population to reach its first billion. Now we add a new billion nearly every dozen years. Over the next half century, 98 percent of that growth will take place in our planet's poorest regions. And as the global total swells to nearly 9 billion by 2050, the social and environmental strains will be enormous.
March 27 Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure
This provocative documentary draws attention to the reasons behind the drug trade (Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine exporter), which include illegal trade funded by radicals, the corrupt government, and the simple fact that most farmers harvest coca because they can't survive on the profits of legitimate food crops.
April 10 Valentina's Nightmare
For days after the slaughter of her Tutsi village, 13 year old Valentina lay hidden among corpses of family and neighbors, her machete wounds festering with infection. Frontline looks back at the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsi's by the Hutu majority in Rwanda and examines the country's struggle for justice and reconciliation.
April 24 Life and Debt
LIFE AND DEBT is a searing documentary from director Stephanie Black that examines the ways that policies of the I.M.F., the World Bank, and other aid organizations have changed the Jamaican economy over the past 25 years. The films shows how Jamaica's agriculture, industry, government, and culture have been restructured by import-export systems, leaving the local people to struggle in poverty and work in sweat shops.