With sci-fi classics, outdoor adventures, science teachers on trial and a cinematic ode to minerals, this summer series explores humanity's relationship with the natural world.
Flowers are in bloom, farmers markets are in full swing and the Dartmouth Film Society is going rock-climbing, saving trees and running fromraptors. Scientists become action heroes in Steven Spielberg's classic blockbusters, which warn against humanity's hubris in the face of nature (we're gonna need abigger boat). Two outdoor adventure programs celebratesurfers'love of the ocean and generations ofclimberstackling the massive cliff face of Mt. Yamnuska.Spencer Tracey defends a science teacherwho dared to add evolution to the curriculum in a film that feels strikingly relevant today. We've paired aneco-science fiction classicabout a spaceship holding Earth's last trees with the latest addition to the desert-set, post-apocalypticMad Max series. And geology nerds will delight atDeborah Stratman's poetic meditationon our planet's history from the point of view of rocks.
