Ok movie buffs and water buffs. Here's your chance to shine: I've worked on water issues for three decades. And I love movies. So... I'm building a list of movies where water, water politics, and water conflict all come together. Here is part of my list, but please weigh in with corrections and additions. If you have additions, I'd love the Title, Year, and a Short precis of how water is centrally involved. Documentaries, sci-fiction, westerns, action... but water has to play a central role in the plot, somehow. Peter Gleick's PartialList of Movies and Water Three Word Brand (1921): Paul and Brand (twins separated at birth, played by William S. Hart) become governor of Utah and a partner in a ranch where neighboring ranchers are trying to get control of local water rights. Riders of Destiny (1933): Government agent Saunders (John...
- 8/18/2010
- by Peter H. Gleick
- Huffington Post
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