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SILENT RUNNING

This 1970's environmentally themed sci-fi classic had an enormous influence on the whole Sci-Fi genre and so is of significant importance.

Set in the future when plant life on earth has become extinct. Only a few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like domes attached to a fleet of space freighters, outside the orbit of Saturn.

Freeman Lowell (the recently Oscar nominated Bruce Dern) is one of four crewmen aboard the Valley Forge and is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth. Lowell lovingly cultivates the crops and attends to the animal life

After he's given the order to jettison his beloved crops, Freeman Lowell goes rogue in a bid to protect the flora. As one of the first true eco-warriors, Lowell takes matters into his own hands and the action really begins.