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There are many documentary and feature films that explore issues related to this year's Common Theme. Anne Roberts, Mary F. Crisler Scholar in the School of Liberal Arts, has compiled this list, which includes informational websites.

Five of these films-"Heat," "Garbage Warrior," "The Garden," "Fuel," and "FLOW"-will be showing as part of the 2009-2010 Sustainability Film Series, sponsored by Student Activities Programming Board and Go Green, IUPUI! See the Common Theme calendar for details. There will be a companion event on Feb. 11, 2010 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. There will be a screening of "Who Killed the Electric Car," followed by a talk by the film-maker, Chris Paine. Stayed Tuned for more information.

If you know of additional films related to the Common Theme, please send the title, description and other relevant information to Anne Roberts: annrober@iupui.edu.

• A Sea Change
• Addicted to Plastic
• Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness
• A Passion For Sustainability
• Black Gold
• Blood Diamonds
• Blue Man Group
• Bullshit
• Darwin's Nightmare
• Earth and Women
• Earth Days
• Erin Brockovich
• Fields of Fuel
• Food, Inc.
• FLOW: For the Love of Water
• Food Matters
• Food Fight
• For the love of water
• Fresh, The Movie
• French Fries To Go
• Fuel
• Garbage Warrior
• Heat
• Immokalee USA
• King Corn
• Marina of the Zabbaleen
• Manufactured Landscapes
• Millennium
• No Impact Man
• Our Daily Bread
• Owning the Weather
• Revenge of the Electric Car
• Sacred Planet
• Silkwood
• Sustainable table:"What's On Your Plate?"
• Tapped
• The 11th Hour
• The Corporation
• The Garden
• The Greenhorns
• The Greening of Southie
• The Poor Man Shames Us All
• The Story of Stuff
• The True Cost of Food (cartoon-15 minutes)
• The Take
• The World According to Monsanto
• Trashed
• Wall-E
• Waste=Food
• Who Killed the Electric Car?

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