Center for the
Study of
Ethics
in Society presents the
Spring 2010 Film Festival
“Fail Safe” (1964) 6:30 p.m. • Tuesday, Jan. 19 • 1025 Brown Discussion Leader: Paul Pancella – Department of Physics A technical malfunction in the Pentagon’s strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight crew are trained to cease communications and prepare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution. Starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. – Swank Motion Pictures, Internet Movie Database
American Experience’s “Citizen King” (2004) 6:30 p.m. • Thursday Jan. 21 • 1025 Brown Discussion Leader: William Santiago-Valles – Department of Africana Studies An African American minister whose dream of ending racism galvanized millions of Americans in the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 but left an enduring legacy. – PBS.org
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“The Battle of Algiers” (1967) 6:30 p.m. • Tuesday. April 16 • 1025 Brown Discussion Leader: Norman W. Hawker – Financial & Commercial Law Internationally acclaimed, the staggering newsreel-like authenticity of the staged street riots and vital performances of the actors give Battle of Algiers a unique dramatic impact on this detailing of the Algerian revolt against the French. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1965 Venice International Film Festival. – Facets Multimedia—www.facetsmovies.com
“Kansas vs. Darwin” (2005) 6:30 p.m. • Tuesday, April 20 1025 Brown Discussion Leader: Fritz Allhoff – Department of Philosophy Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, the hearings provided a testing ground for the successful legal and political tactics that drive today’s ongoing actions by anti-evolution organizations in the US and around the world.—New Day Films —www.newday.com
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