Silent Running

Environmental awareness became a common issue as early as the 1970s. Silent Running is one of the first Hollywood productions to address this theme. This sci-fi cult classic greatly influenced later scientific experiments by revealing a future in which all botanical life on Earth has gone extinct. Only a few plant specimens have been preserved on spaceships. When ecologist Freeman Lowell is ordered to destroy the last of the gardens to save costs, he cannot do it. Together with his robots Huey, Dewey and Louie, he hijacks one of the spaceships and flees to keep the valuable last bits of green alive.