I love this film, always brings a tear to my eye, but there is a bit of a scientific lapse at the end. Instead of sending the dome out into the cold of space, where when the power runs out, the heating lamps will fail... He should have put it in orbit around the Sun. I know, then we wouldn't get the haunting final image, like a message in a bottle, dropped in the ocean for someone to hopefully find. A wonderful film!
Beautiful song-one of Joan's best and most under-rated. Def. a tear-jerker on the film. It actually is one of sci-fi's most under-rated also-and most influential films. George Lucas quotes this over and over as being a direct influence on Star Wars...
Forget about crying when we were watching this as kids. I'm middle aged and the tears have welled up right now, as soon as the watering can appeared.
Today's kids need to see this film and ponder its inconvenient truth from an earlier generation.
Let us protect the woods on this beautiful planet.
50 % of the rain forest from the earth is gone forever. Let's stop to destroy the other woods of this planet. If we all work together we can reach this aim.
Yeah, I'm one of the thousands who cried when I watched this as a child - and now I cry when I watch it as 42 year old man. Possibly to do with Joan Baez' haunting voice, but more to do with the fact that this is the way the world is going - nearly 40 years on and mankind still doesn't get it. A spectacular film that for some bizarre reason never got the acclaim it deserved.
@OldStag72 I CONCUR! I thought of this wonderful film tonight while talking to my husband about the space program. Why did this movie come to mind now? I was so happy to see this on here, it brings back memories of the 70's when this movie came out. I cried and cried my eyes out, too, at the end scene of this movie and am crying now just like I did as a kid reseeing it again. This movie will forever be imprinted on my heart. I wish they played it on tv more often.
@julesflower1 yeah, im with you guys and the crying. I was a young kid when i watched this and since then find small things and gentle thing sad, not because they are wrong but because they are disappearing.
@OldStag72 glad to know it wasnt just me, made the mistake of leaving a note for my mum at bedtime. She was sympatetic but 2 friends saw it the next day and ...... i cried again.
@OldStag72 glad to know it wasnt just me, made the mistake of leaving a note for my mum at bedtime. She was sympatetic but 2 friends saw it the next day and ...... i cried again.
I cried for ages after I saw this film for the first time, when I was about 5 or 6, in the early nineties. Christ, it still gets me today. Ever since we started getting more and more complacent, and letting more of our world slip into the decay it now is, I haven't seen this repeated. This or Fern Gully, or any of those other, early warnings about our decadent, destructive ways. Strange that.
I had trying find this ending of movie for many time... and here is!! after seeing this movie the first time I started to think on what I really feel about the lost of nature in our dear planet and how horrible could be lost it for ever.
Thanks for upload this beautiful and moving song and ending.
I remember streams full of minnows,stickelbacks,nymphs,waterboatmen,tadpoles and watercress.Fields full of grasshoppers,beatles,butterflies,shrews,doormice,fieldmice etc.Hundreds of grass and herb varieties.Wild flowers everywhere.Gloworms fireflies and all sorts of insect life.Now its all sterile.Its all gone within the space of 50 years.What will we have left in another 50.It makes me cry like a baby.
There are simply too many of us for the planet. I worry for the near future. If we don't cut our number, by alot then we end up fighting over the last of the oil, gas etc. Birth control should be the first priority of this generation.
spaceship earth has no passengers only crew love our planet earth do something get involved our planet can be heaven or hell its our choice, children of the sun........
what's so cute about this movie are the three robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie. When we had three kids, we nicknamed them as such. Folks older than 40 will still name anything that come in 3's the same way!
I am all for moving out to the stars and spreading colonies across the Galaxy,but for the sole purpose of just saving mankind because he messed his own home up to the point it can no longer sustain life is just wrong.
We will only do it again,and again and again etc etc....and sadly it looks like that is what will happen.
We know the Earth can't last forever,but let our sun decide when it's time up and not our own greed and lack of respect for unborn generations to come.
There seems no let up in price hikes and no signs of peace in the Asian/MiddleEastern areas soon,so we will continue to waste billions of £'s $'s to fund unnecessary wars to get our hands on even more natural resources.Those resources are running out as we use them quicker than they can replenish themselves.
That money could be better used finding alternative power sources and allowing us to stay on this planet for millions of years more and not just 100's or 1000's.
Great film and a great piece of music.We should look after what we have as it is very precious.
I dont hate my fellow man,but i do hate what my fellow man has become,greed,power and self indulgence seems to be the way of the world nowadays and it saddens me what my children and their children and so on have to look forward to.
If your children and their children have a less pleasant world to look forward to, blame the socialists and ecophreaks who won't let Man do what Man does best... innovate and create.
@Hiraghm No i dont hate man,as i said, i hate what man has become.........man does create,but he is also better at destroying.Mans own worse enemy is himself and will be the end of our existence because of this.
I am certainly no ecofreak as you call them,but a blind man can see what we are doing to this planet.
And a man with vision can see what we are doing FOR this planet.
Destroying is simply easier than creating, but Man is better at creating.
The planet is doing fine, and if we are "destroying" it, then jump on NASA and the UN to promote a crash program to Terraform Mars and Venus, which will "save" the Earth and teach us about ecology before the ecophreaks experiment on the only habitable world, thus far, and possibly kill us all.
@Hiraghm Come on now,you have been watching far too much Star Trek in terraforming and colonizing other planets.
We have drained this planets resources far too long and for what...the threat of nuclear or biological warfare.It looms ever closer with all the troubles in the middle east and Asia.
We have great advances in technology,computers and so on for what,to build better weapons of destruction,thats what.
We have made advances in medicine yet can't cure the common cold let alone cancer.
lol I hold Star Drek, Star Bores and similar "sci-fi" crap in contempt.
No, Isaac Asimov, George O Smith, Jerry Pournelle, Robert A Heinlein, and other hard SF authors got me interested in space exploitation. In highschool, I wrote my junior year thesis on black hole dynamics.
In 1979 I read a science article on the specific technologies (which didn't exist but do now) to Terraform Venus. I've been working out the mechanisms to not only terraform but move mars and venus...
...into a Lagrangian configuration with Earth. Yes, such projects may take hundreds, if not thousands of years, but aren't we talking about the survival of life itself and Mankind in particular?
Again, leftists only solution is to enslave Man, destroy Man, never use Man's God-given talent for making things better.
@Hiraghm but with all the advances in medicine and science we still know how to wipe out every living being on this planet while leaving the cities and towns standing but let your granny catch a cold as they can't cure it.
Yes i will agree that we have some wonderful achievements and wonderful people,but i stick by saying our lust for greed and power will be our downfall.We act like children who dont appreciate what they have until it's gone,and keep going until that day happens.
@Hiraghm I am impressed in what you do and respect your opinion although we will have to agree to disagree on the greed saving us and that the world is not in crisis.
The economy is in its worst state it has been in our lifetime,coming from the UK we get ripped off with basic needs such as fuel,be it for transport or domestic requirements.
@Hiraghm So was i,albeit as a child,but i can honestly say it was nothing compared to what it's like now......makes you wonder what it will be like in another 40 years.
Then you were sheltered. As bad as it is today, and it is bad, it is nowhere near as bad as the 70s were.
It's a matter of who steps up to the plate and what we do as for the next 40 years. The 1980s were comparative paradise, because we learned from the 70s and rejected the prevailing philosophy. Then we forgot and backslid and let the untiring left drag us down to where we are today.
And I have to say, I had a personal epiphany yesterday that I think should apply to movies like this and the attitude I've seen here. You can't do anything if you don't believe in yourself. If you think you're incompetent, or foolish, or evil, or slothful, that's how you'll act. That's what you'll expect from yourself. It's only by believing in yourself, only by believing that you ARE GOOD that you will accomplish good. By working in optimism, not pessimism.
@Hiraghm The 70's were no where near as bad as it is today,a fuel crisis and workers going on strike does not add up to the threat of being blown up in your own home by people who live next door to you and say they are doing it in the name of religion.I certainly don't think i am bad although my looks may deceive,being a 6ft 2" skinhead with more than a few tatts and a lifelong passion for motorbikes,but i certainly know right from wrong and try my hardest each day to teach my children this.
If we believe we're essentially bad, then give up, because there's no way to fix anything. But, if you believe anything else, then believe in us. Encourage us. Find the good things, no matter how trivial-seeming, that we've accomplished. I saw on the news today where a child wrote Santa, asking, not for a toy, but for a new coat for her mommy. THERE IS YOUR HOPE for the future!
Man is good. Man wants to be good. And Man solves problems... always.
@Hiraghm Not all men are good but many try to convince you that they are.These people manipulate their way to power and make sure they get their own way and disregard the consequences.
The story of the child is touching,it should be the way people think,if only there were more like that but sadly many want what everyone else has got whether they can afford it or not.Hence the greed.
You wont convince me that this is a safe world to live in.All we hear is War,terror and depression.
@Hiraghm We both come from countries who are not exactly pure when it comes to greed and power,and they try to take what they can from whoever they want it from and "WILL"resort to violence if the other party refuses to cooperate.
They say we are the good guys,and were doing it for the good of mankind and peace on the planet....BULL....they do it because they are powerful and greedy and want to make sure they have whatever is left because they do know its going to run out very soon.
The films message is not of destruction or saving but of the heart and what it is that 'means' something to you. The earth SHOULD mean something to ALL of us for when she dies we will ALL die and where can go but space. How many more rain-forests will go, how many more species will become extinct. When will it become man's turn to face the fact that if we don't begin to save what brought us into existence, then we ourselves will be denied that existence........
The Earth is a ball of rock. Life inhabits the Earth. We don't have to die if the Earth dies; Only Man can take life beyond this ball of rock, Terraforming new worlds and giving life immortality. Only Man can create plant and animal species that never existed before.
Man is nature's greatest achievement, and the only hope for life's future.
I saw that movie, gad, it's been almost 40 years! I'm still perplexed till this day of WHY the crew of the ship was cammanded to destroy those gardens.
@llangol The shos were orginally in earths orbit. But since they were going to destory the domes they decided to jetison them around Saturn before they returned the ships to commerical services. Saturn was on the way to where they were going.
@ItsAmadWorld2 This is one of those films whose plot does not bear close inspection, but I love it anyway. Why were they ordered to destroy the gardens? Why did they waste money on blasting them out near the orbit of Saturn rather than keeping them on Earth? How did a world-class botanist forget that plants need light? I figure: 1) Bureaucratic decisions make no sense; 2) Pork; and 3) He cracked up. Anyway, it's still a beautiful film, meant to be enjoyed by the heart, not the intellect.
@racookster The people in power were never serious out the mission of saving the trees. It was just for show. And when people had forgotten about them, they decided to destroy the Domes. Only Lowell didn't know that this mission was for show. Remeber they say to him"Hey Lowell you are dreaming." And Lowell had snapped is why he could figure out sooner about the trees needing light.
DEFINITELY it was meant to be enjoyed by the heart and not the head. The same way pro-nazi and pro-communist propaganda is meant to be enjoyed by the heart and not the head.
Because it is an ecophreak propaganda film. The crew was ordered to destroy the gardens by the director because it was in the script. They had to be destroyed after being shown all neat and wonderful to win the audience's sympathy for the anti-human cause.
Then the film was a success. The scene at the end with the little cute robot all alone out in the deep darkness of space, doing his job... makes me wanna cry too.
its really sad song / end scene when I watch it since my childhood. But I forgot the tittle movie. Until now I just find it. Thank you for uploading this
The spaceship is named "Valley Forge". Many scenes were filmed aboard the decomissioned aircraft-carrier "Valley Forge", which lay waiting to be scrapped. Inside the drones were amputees with no legs, walking on their hands. Great film!
anyone notice in the very beginning of the movie when you start to see the robots, how one of them is backing up when it appears that someone is walking through a hallway? That really sets the tone for the unconditional affection for all the robots.
Put this music to the scenes of dolphins and whales in Carl Sagan's Cosmos and I swear you'll be blubbing at the screen and saying 'What have we done, Carl?'
I saw this for FIRST time (my brother had the DVD) only two weeks ago -- how deprived I've been -- what a great movie with such a powerful message. The ending brought tears to my eyes -- and made me feel sad not only for the characters but more so the sad current state of our planet.
I remember watching this movie as a kid when it was aired on TV for the first time. Just recently I watched it again on Netflix. It is a heart warming movie. Though it is unusual for Bruce Dern to play this part since he was the bad guy in alot of his movies, he did an outstanding job in Silent Running.
I love this movie and have the DVD but I cant BEAR to watch it. The message it sends and what its about is always heartbreaking. Even tho we seem to be near this very future ourselves, global warming, the leak in the gulf. When does it end ? When will we finally do something so BAD that we won't be able to fix it and we as a species will NOT be able to live here anymore. Mother Earth forgive us......
very powerful movie, i remake would be pretty insulting to the original, but the message needs to be shared with the youth of today and they are quite prone to dismissing older movies as not worthy of their attention.
The last forest sent to the universe! Not the earth! means it will be that way if we NOW do something against it! aye ALL of us! I gave up cars! have walked now hmmmm since last year about a thousand miles! doin my work ( papers and magazines and shopping and offices etc! I ♥ Earth
I always loved this song! Plus it was such a great movie back then. I just do not remember when it was on the movie theaters? I think somewhere in the late 1960's?
i find it an honest look at how people act towards each other and how there inconcideration of others leads to there own demise, which to me seems to be a far greater lesson learned than most taught.
I remember the first time I saw this I must have been about 5. I thought Bruce Dern was funny but I was too young to understand someone's descent into madness, and I liked the robots and then was really sad cause the robot was all by himself at the end.
Watching now I'm a lot older and actually understand the story it's still an awesome film but for proper reasons, the message it convies, the tone and the solitude of it all :)
I am making a doc on that film. What was your favorite scene or scenes in the movie? Would you rate it in the top 10 sci-fi films, what #? What do you like about the film? If they were to remake it, who should star in it and direct it? Brad Dourif, James Cameran?
If they remake it I think Sam Rockwell would be a perfect choice to play the part of Lovell. The actor has that certain 'quality' that is similar to Bruce Dern.
My fave scenes would be the card game with the drones, the scene as he gets ready to destroy himself and the ship and the final scene/end credits.
Good luck with documentary. Look forward to seeing it. One of my fave movies. It has a moral that is more relevent now than when it did back in early seventies. Technically the film is up there with 2001 A Space Odyssey. Production, art direction and set design are awesome even by today's green-screen obsessed Cgi heavy movies. You can't beat a real set for adding realism and some of the interior shots were filmed on an old aircraft carrier with additional set dressing. Cheap but effective.
No one points out that, if we develop the apparent capability for artificial gravity as displayed in this movie... population won't be an issue. We will have the stars in our pocket.
This is one of the most under-rated movies of all time. The visuals, story line and message are excellent. And then there is Bruce Dern; the perfect actor to play this part. The only other actor that I think could pull this off is Kevin Klein. I saw this movie on the big screen when it first came out and The opening shots trough the vegitation in the pod burned itself into my mind. If I need proof that a big screen is better than a TV, this movie provides it.
I watched the film here on Youtube and some comments spoke about a possible remake. Wall-E is a good enough remake of this film. Even the Wall-E creator said this is his favorite film.
Is it "Heels of children" or " Fields of children running wild"? Emotional ending for sure. I remember being thrilled when Starlost came out as a short lived series. The Ark was similar to Valley Forge.
I love this film, always brings a tear to my eye, but there is a bit of a scientific lapse at the end. Instead of sending the dome out into the cold of space, where when the power runs out, the heating lamps will fail... He should have put it in orbit around the Sun. I know, then we wouldn't get the haunting final image, like a message in a bottle, dropped in the ocean for someone to hopefully find. A wonderful film!
StevenErnest 3 days ago
Beautiful song-one of Joan's best and most under-rated. Def. a tear-jerker on the film. It actually is one of sci-fi's most under-rated also-and most influential films. George Lucas quotes this over and over as being a direct influence on Star Wars...
vincefsmith 4 days ago
Forget about crying when we were watching this as kids. I'm middle aged and the tears have welled up right now, as soon as the watering can appeared.
Today's kids need to see this film and ponder its inconvenient truth from an earlier generation.
AussieGeoffA 3 weeks ago in playlist less than a song
What happened to all the moths, we used to get, at night?.
llangol 1 month ago
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@llangol I still get the bugger en masse
planetrockford 3 weeks ago
Let us protect the woods on this beautiful planet.
50 % of the rain forest from the earth is gone forever. Let's stop to destroy the other woods of this planet. If we all work together we can reach this aim.
For example the tarsands in Alberta, Canada:
Search for the English version with:
Stop Tar Sands
For the German version:
Westkanada: Ölsandabbau zerstört eine Region
Dream with me with this wonderful planet...:
Search with
Planet Earth (Views From Space)
Peer189 2 months ago
Yeah, I'm one of the thousands who cried when I watched this as a child - and now I cry when I watch it as 42 year old man. Possibly to do with Joan Baez' haunting voice, but more to do with the fact that this is the way the world is going - nearly 40 years on and mankind still doesn't get it. A spectacular film that for some bizarre reason never got the acclaim it deserved.
bobakers 3 months ago
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our teacher made us watch and it was amazing and sad this movie is tring to tell us that we need to take care of earth
atomicman112 3 months ago
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atomicman112 3 months ago
So sad. It's all coming true. We care little for the earth.
carrotjuse 4 months ago in playlist AI in Celluloid
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Must be the inspiration for Wall-E
Another great film : )
JONNOG88 6 months ago
this one goes out to earth first and atwa...................LOVE MOTHER ALWAYS
zezo6767 7 months ago
Good god, that really tugs at the heart strings!
SamusDrake 7 months ago
I am one of the thousands of seventies kids who cried big wet tears at the end of this film. Magical and inspirational. Thank you for uploading.
OldStag72 7 months ago 25
@OldStag72 a fantastic film still get get tears
dave1670 3 months ago
@OldStag72 I CONCUR! I thought of this wonderful film tonight while talking to my husband about the space program. Why did this movie come to mind now? I was so happy to see this on here, it brings back memories of the 70's when this movie came out. I cried and cried my eyes out, too, at the end scene of this movie and am crying now just like I did as a kid reseeing it again. This movie will forever be imprinted on my heart. I wish they played it on tv more often.
julesflower1 2 months ago
@julesflower1 yeah, im with you guys and the crying. I was a young kid when i watched this and since then find small things and gentle thing sad, not because they are wrong but because they are disappearing.
ickleshouse 1 month ago
@OldStag72 Me too, I was 10. The message of this film is so powerful and more important today than ever.
the60sKid 2 months ago 2
@OldStag72
So did I..but I had to wait to see this film on TV in the late 1970's to be able to...it's pretty brilliant...even now.
MrTevB 1 month ago
@OldStag72 glad to know it wasnt just me, made the mistake of leaving a note for my mum at bedtime. She was sympatetic but 2 friends saw it the next day and ...... i cried again.
True, magical and inspirational.
ickleshouse 1 month ago
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@OldStag72 glad to know it wasnt just me, made the mistake of leaving a note for my mum at bedtime. She was sympatetic but 2 friends saw it the next day and ...... i cried again.
True, magical and inspirational.
ickleshouse 1 month ago
I cried for ages after I saw this film for the first time, when I was about 5 or 6, in the early nineties. Christ, it still gets me today. Ever since we started getting more and more complacent, and letting more of our world slip into the decay it now is, I haven't seen this repeated. This or Fern Gully, or any of those other, early warnings about our decadent, destructive ways. Strange that.
DanielRand 1 month ago 2
Great film and music
llangol 7 months ago
"Take care of the forest, Huey..."
rjpugh 8 months ago 2
I didn't even make it through 45 sec.
mtnbkrmech 8 months ago
I dont see how this is so sad...
akacpkiller21 8 months ago
@akacpkiller21 The last plants and animals, left from earth. You don't find it sad?.
llangol 5 months ago 2
Saw this in the theater with my dad when I was 6. Cried my eyes out at the end. I even remember stopping on the way home to get gas. The irony.
tommyrock69 9 months ago 2
One of my all time favorite movies and songs, Joan Baez has always been my musical idol!
Chokes me up too!
oldfolkiedulcimer 9 months ago
Grown man about to cry, this is so beautiful.
planetrockford 10 months ago
Loved this film for a long time, Also Thumbs up to Joan baez beautiful woman beautiful voice beautiful cause.
Kaldhore 10 months ago
I had trying find this ending of movie for many time... and here is!! after seeing this movie the first time I started to think on what I really feel about the lost of nature in our dear planet and how horrible could be lost it for ever.
Thanks for upload this beautiful and moving song and ending.
Ray0X0 11 months ago
Not sean this for years, and still the tears come..... awesome end to a film.
Iclimbthereforeiam 11 months ago
I remember streams full of minnows,stickelbacks,nymphs,waterboatmen,tadpoles and watercress.Fields full of grasshoppers,beatles,butterflies,shrews,doormice,fieldmice etc.Hundreds of grass and herb varieties.Wild flowers everywhere.Gloworms fireflies and all sorts of insect life.Now its all sterile.Its all gone within the space of 50 years.What will we have left in another 50.It makes me cry like a baby.
philipg52 1 year ago 8
@philipg52 Me too. Funny you should mention sticklebacks, there are none.
llangol 1 year ago
@philipg52 Well, Philip, in the last ten years, the frogs have returned to my family farm in Arkansas, so it might not be too late. In the Son.
hdwhit75 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
There are simply too many of us for the planet. I worry for the near future. If we don't cut our number, by alot then we end up fighting over the last of the oil, gas etc. Birth control should be the first priority of this generation.
llangol 1 year ago 2
I remember watching this awesome move in 1972 (I was 13). i was so moved listening to this song.
Mrjohnboyd1959 1 year ago
spaceship earth has no passengers only crew love our planet earth do something get involved our planet can be heaven or hell its our choice, children of the sun........
zezo6767 1 year ago
what's so cute about this movie are the three robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie. When we had three kids, we nicknamed them as such. Folks older than 40 will still name anything that come in 3's the same way!
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GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
I am all for moving out to the stars and spreading colonies across the Galaxy,but for the sole purpose of just saving mankind because he messed his own home up to the point it can no longer sustain life is just wrong.
We will only do it again,and again and again etc etc....and sadly it looks like that is what will happen.
We know the Earth can't last forever,but let our sun decide when it's time up and not our own greed and lack of respect for unborn generations to come.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
There seems no let up in price hikes and no signs of peace in the Asian/MiddleEastern areas soon,so we will continue to waste billions of £'s $'s to fund unnecessary wars to get our hands on even more natural resources.Those resources are running out as we use them quicker than they can replenish themselves.
That money could be better used finding alternative power sources and allowing us to stay on this planet for millions of years more and not just 100's or 1000's.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
Great film and a great piece of music.We should look after what we have as it is very precious.
I dont hate my fellow man,but i do hate what my fellow man has become,greed,power and self indulgence seems to be the way of the world nowadays and it saddens me what my children and their children and so on have to look forward to.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
...which means you hate Man.
If your children and their children have a less pleasant world to look forward to, blame the socialists and ecophreaks who won't let Man do what Man does best... innovate and create.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm No i dont hate man,as i said, i hate what man has become.........man does create,but he is also better at destroying.Mans own worse enemy is himself and will be the end of our existence because of this.
I am certainly no ecofreak as you call them,but a blind man can see what we are doing to this planet.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
And a man with vision can see what we are doing FOR this planet.
Destroying is simply easier than creating, but Man is better at creating.
The planet is doing fine, and if we are "destroying" it, then jump on NASA and the UN to promote a crash program to Terraform Mars and Venus, which will "save" the Earth and teach us about ecology before the ecophreaks experiment on the only habitable world, thus far, and possibly kill us all.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm Come on now,you have been watching far too much Star Trek in terraforming and colonizing other planets.
We have drained this planets resources far too long and for what...the threat of nuclear or biological warfare.It looms ever closer with all the troubles in the middle east and Asia.
We have great advances in technology,computers and so on for what,to build better weapons of destruction,thats what.
We have made advances in medicine yet can't cure the common cold let alone cancer.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
lol I hold Star Drek, Star Bores and similar "sci-fi" crap in contempt.
No, Isaac Asimov, George O Smith, Jerry Pournelle, Robert A Heinlein, and other hard SF authors got me interested in space exploitation. In highschool, I wrote my junior year thesis on black hole dynamics.
In 1979 I read a science article on the specific technologies (which didn't exist but do now) to Terraform Venus. I've been working out the mechanisms to not only terraform but move mars and venus...
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
...into a Lagrangian configuration with Earth. Yes, such projects may take hundreds, if not thousands of years, but aren't we talking about the survival of life itself and Mankind in particular?
Again, leftists only solution is to enslave Man, destroy Man, never use Man's God-given talent for making things better.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm but with all the advances in medicine and science we still know how to wipe out every living being on this planet while leaving the cities and towns standing but let your granny catch a cold as they can't cure it.
Yes i will agree that we have some wonderful achievements and wonderful people,but i stick by saying our lust for greed and power will be our downfall.We act like children who dont appreciate what they have until it's gone,and keep going until that day happens.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
It's our lust and greed for wealth and achievement that will save us from an perceived crises (crises which just simply don't exist right now.)
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm I am impressed in what you do and respect your opinion although we will have to agree to disagree on the greed saving us and that the world is not in crisis.
The economy is in its worst state it has been in our lifetime,coming from the UK we get ripped off with basic needs such as fuel,be it for transport or domestic requirements.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
Not in my lifetime; I was around in the 70s.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm So was i,albeit as a child,but i can honestly say it was nothing compared to what it's like now......makes you wonder what it will be like in another 40 years.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
Then you were sheltered. As bad as it is today, and it is bad, it is nowhere near as bad as the 70s were.
It's a matter of who steps up to the plate and what we do as for the next 40 years. The 1980s were comparative paradise, because we learned from the 70s and rejected the prevailing philosophy. Then we forgot and backslid and let the untiring left drag us down to where we are today.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
And I have to say, I had a personal epiphany yesterday that I think should apply to movies like this and the attitude I've seen here. You can't do anything if you don't believe in yourself. If you think you're incompetent, or foolish, or evil, or slothful, that's how you'll act. That's what you'll expect from yourself. It's only by believing in yourself, only by believing that you ARE GOOD that you will accomplish good. By working in optimism, not pessimism.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm The 70's were no where near as bad as it is today,a fuel crisis and workers going on strike does not add up to the threat of being blown up in your own home by people who live next door to you and say they are doing it in the name of religion.I certainly don't think i am bad although my looks may deceive,being a 6ft 2" skinhead with more than a few tatts and a lifelong passion for motorbikes,but i certainly know right from wrong and try my hardest each day to teach my children this.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
Two words: weather underground.
Two more words: Soviet Union. (or if you prefer "nuclear war").
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm I'm afraid you lost me with that reply :)
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@GrumpyAuldGit
If we believe we're essentially bad, then give up, because there's no way to fix anything. But, if you believe anything else, then believe in us. Encourage us. Find the good things, no matter how trivial-seeming, that we've accomplished. I saw on the news today where a child wrote Santa, asking, not for a toy, but for a new coat for her mommy. THERE IS YOUR HOPE for the future!
Man is good. Man wants to be good. And Man solves problems... always.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@Hiraghm Not all men are good but many try to convince you that they are.These people manipulate their way to power and make sure they get their own way and disregard the consequences.
The story of the child is touching,it should be the way people think,if only there were more like that but sadly many want what everyone else has got whether they can afford it or not.Hence the greed.
You wont convince me that this is a safe world to live in.All we hear is War,terror and depression.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
@Hiraghm We both come from countries who are not exactly pure when it comes to greed and power,and they try to take what they can from whoever they want it from and "WILL"resort to violence if the other party refuses to cooperate.
They say we are the good guys,and were doing it for the good of mankind and peace on the planet....BULL....they do it because they are powerful and greedy and want to make sure they have whatever is left because they do know its going to run out very soon.
GrumpyAuldGit 1 year ago
The films message is not of destruction or saving but of the heart and what it is that 'means' something to you. The earth SHOULD mean something to ALL of us for when she dies we will ALL die and where can go but space. How many more rain-forests will go, how many more species will become extinct. When will it become man's turn to face the fact that if we don't begin to save what brought us into existence, then we ourselves will be denied that existence........
MrLatinmuscl 1 year ago
@MrLatinmuscl
The Earth is a ball of rock. Life inhabits the Earth. We don't have to die if the Earth dies; Only Man can take life beyond this ball of rock, Terraforming new worlds and giving life immortality. Only Man can create plant and animal species that never existed before.
Man is nature's greatest achievement, and the only hope for life's future.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
I saw that movie, gad, it's been almost 40 years! I'm still perplexed till this day of WHY the crew of the ship was cammanded to destroy those gardens.
ItsAmadWorld2 1 year ago
@ItsAmadWorld2 me too, why wee they in Saturn's orbit, no sun.
llangol 1 year ago
@llangol The shos were orginally in earths orbit. But since they were going to destory the domes they decided to jetison them around Saturn before they returned the ships to commerical services. Saturn was on the way to where they were going.
BUDDY6414724297 1 year ago
@ItsAmadWorld2 This is one of those films whose plot does not bear close inspection, but I love it anyway. Why were they ordered to destroy the gardens? Why did they waste money on blasting them out near the orbit of Saturn rather than keeping them on Earth? How did a world-class botanist forget that plants need light? I figure: 1) Bureaucratic decisions make no sense; 2) Pork; and 3) He cracked up. Anyway, it's still a beautiful film, meant to be enjoyed by the heart, not the intellect.
racookster 1 year ago
@racookster The people in power were never serious out the mission of saving the trees. It was just for show. And when people had forgotten about them, they decided to destroy the Domes. Only Lowell didn't know that this mission was for show. Remeber they say to him"Hey Lowell you are dreaming." And Lowell had snapped is why he could figure out sooner about the trees needing light.
BUDDY6414724297 1 year ago
@racookster
I agree.
ItsAmadWorld2 1 year ago
@racookster
DEFINITELY it was meant to be enjoyed by the heart and not the head. The same way pro-nazi and pro-communist propaganda is meant to be enjoyed by the heart and not the head.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
@ItsAmadWorld2
Because it is an ecophreak propaganda film. The crew was ordered to destroy the gardens by the director because it was in the script. They had to be destroyed after being shown all neat and wonderful to win the audience's sympathy for the anti-human cause.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
I was a wreck after this. sobbed for ages. I was 7.
Baz321974 1 year ago
@Baz321974
Then the film was a success. The scene at the end with the little cute robot all alone out in the deep darkness of space, doing his job... makes me wanna cry too.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
this made me cry :) this is a great film
francaisemusique 1 year ago
I like this film and the musik....I was 13 jears when I see this movie at first..
I am 43 this time... and I have tears on my eyes :-)
sry, I cant speake english :-) but I think you now what I mean
regidie 1 year ago 3
@regidie
I know what you mean!
ecotchr 1 year ago
yes it is a sad ending beautiful music.
swudanst 1 year ago
its really sad song / end scene when I watch it since my childhood. But I forgot the tittle movie. Until now I just find it. Thank you for uploading this
DDT9eleven 1 year ago
The spaceship is named "Valley Forge". Many scenes were filmed aboard the decomissioned aircraft-carrier "Valley Forge", which lay waiting to be scrapped. Inside the drones were amputees with no legs, walking on their hands. Great film!
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES All you say is true, the dome was a hanger at Van Nuys, but still a great film.
llangol 1 year ago
I loved this movie!!!!! Brings back memories x
1grinchie 1 year ago
best sci fi ever
psychorigsby 1 year ago
anyone notice in the very beginning of the movie when you start to see the robots, how one of them is backing up when it appears that someone is walking through a hallway? That really sets the tone for the unconditional affection for all the robots.
baboracus 1 year ago
This movie made such an impression on me as a kid.
lmorrow4 1 year ago 2
wanna adopt hewy.......he was R2D2 before star wars
purplefurball 1 year ago
Look out your window right now.
Harvest and Rejoice.
There is still time.
rjkral 1 year ago
just want to give hewey a big hug..
mantooth3245 1 year ago
Pre Wall-e ?
scrumsie 1 year ago
@scrumsie
WAYYYYYYY Pre-Wall-e. Try 1972...
dieterderblau 1 year ago
Put this music to the scenes of dolphins and whales in Carl Sagan's Cosmos and I swear you'll be blubbing at the screen and saying 'What have we done, Carl?'
kitchenaut 1 year ago
Heartbreaking to see Dewey pause for a moment and look into the unknown,thinking and wondering ,all alone maintaining the forrest..
Great ending to a classic..
mantooth3245 1 year ago
I saw this for FIRST time (my brother had the DVD) only two weeks ago -- how deprived I've been -- what a great movie with such a powerful message. The ending brought tears to my eyes -- and made me feel sad not only for the characters but more so the sad current state of our planet.
marcostar57 1 year ago
I remember watching this movie as a kid when it was aired on TV for the first time. Just recently I watched it again on Netflix. It is a heart warming movie. Though it is unusual for Bruce Dern to play this part since he was the bad guy in alot of his movies, he did an outstanding job in Silent Running.
RyeGrog 1 year ago
One of the most emotional ends of any film.
odsall 1 year ago
When I first saw this movie I ended up crying so hard at the end. And was it dewey that was left?.......oh jeez. sigh.:(
9696286 1 year ago
@9696286 I had exactly the same feeling ..and the music, too :-{
marcostar57 1 year ago
I love this movie and have the DVD but I cant BEAR to watch it. The message it sends and what its about is always heartbreaking. Even tho we seem to be near this very future ourselves, global warming, the leak in the gulf. When does it end ? When will we finally do something so BAD that we won't be able to fix it and we as a species will NOT be able to live here anymore. Mother Earth forgive us......
MrLatinmuscl 1 year ago 3
poor Dewey,,, we love you forever...
mantooth3245 1 year ago 3
There are simply so few moments in any sci-fi films that make me cry, this film is full of them, beautiful and such a resonant message, then and now.
andinoble 1 year ago 2
very powerful movie, i remake would be pretty insulting to the original, but the message needs to be shared with the youth of today and they are quite prone to dismissing older movies as not worthy of their attention.
trigga1uk 1 year ago
@trigga1uk I agree a very powerful film. I love it as it is, hard to see how a remake will have a greater affect.
llangol 1 year ago
THEY WANT TO SHOW THIS IN SCHOOLS COMPULSERY
UNIONJAXX123 1 year ago 2
@UNIONJAXX123 No ask the kids if they want to see it
llangol 1 year ago
@llangol - no, I suggest we force them to watch it with their eyelids held open like in clockwork orange.
walter0bz 1 year ago
The last forest sent to the universe! Not the earth! means it will be that way if we NOW do something against it! aye ALL of us! I gave up cars! have walked now hmmmm since last year about a thousand miles! doin my work ( papers and magazines and shopping and offices etc! I ♥ Earth
shieldwolf49 1 year ago
Lowell Armstrong kind of trapped between good and evil. He did whack the rest of the crew.
VastWalker 1 year ago 3
The end to this chokes me up every time i watch it ; ) Beautiful film.
GarethWonfor 1 year ago 29
@GarethWonfor Love this movie, and the song by Joan Baez.
llangol 1 year ago 2
@GarethWonfor Yep - does it to me too!
templarseries 1 year ago
@GarethWonfor Me too actually... it's a brilliantly done film :D
sicklilmonky 4 months ago
Nice choice, at least everyone will be in floods of tears..... I am, every time I hear it.
jboweruk 1 year ago 3
Hunter Thompson was friends with joan baez. Wonder what he would have thought of this, after the night of the dobermans.
hugopal 1 year ago
Why to Saturn?. From there the sun is a point, a star, very bright, not a;ot of heat.
llangol 2 years ago
well, its taking those plants far away from their greatest threat... maybe they'll feel a bit safer out there
walter0bz 2 years ago
@llangol I think Saturn because the writers needed a escape route through the rings for Valley Forge ... to evade Berkshire and Sequoia.
heyrodders 1 year ago
along with 'discovery of derlict spacecraft pilot' in alien - this is one of the most awe-inspiring scenes of sci-fi , ever.
walter0bz 2 years ago
Space hippies. I love this movie.
mocrg 2 years ago 18
I wanna know what the energy source is in that dome.
sondano 2 years ago
what's the song called again?
banjobanjar 2 years ago
I beg you pardon?
sondano 2 years ago
@sondano
its a bloody space ship. its the same energy source that pushed them out into saturns orbit
walter0bz 2 years ago
oh that explains it LOL
sondano 2 years ago
love.
ThePerusse 2 years ago
I've always loved this movie (and this song). Thanks for the smile.
swmyers7 2 years ago
I always loved this song! Plus it was such a great movie back then. I just do not remember when it was on the movie theaters? I think somewhere in the late 1960's?
patsaxon 2 years ago
Hope he left plenty of spare light bulbs, energy saving ones perhaps?
PIGSICK1 2 years ago
@PIGSICK1 Of course, it's the future.....
boxerinj 2 years ago
i find it an honest look at how people act towards each other and how there inconcideration of others leads to there own demise, which to me seems to be a far greater lesson learned than most taught.
matisamd 2 years ago
Sam Rockwell. Perfect for the role.
TK42138 2 years ago
misanthropic film.
out of humanity's destructive tendancy, some good might come... i.e. machines taking life out into space
but humans are a means, not an end
walter0bz 2 years ago
Wow, thank you to whoever posted this...made me cry as a kid (saw it on the big screen) and still makes me cry. Amazing-filmmaking at its best.
bwgproductions 2 years ago 2
Incredible how so many people were touched by the ending. I remember it vividly in the theater as a kid.
Viperkal 2 years ago 2
I remember the first time I saw this I must have been about 5. I thought Bruce Dern was funny but I was too young to understand someone's descent into madness, and I liked the robots and then was really sad cause the robot was all by himself at the end.
Watching now I'm a lot older and actually understand the story it's still an awesome film but for proper reasons, the message it convies, the tone and the solitude of it all :)
sevenforce1978 2 years ago
I am making a doc on that film. What was your favorite scene or scenes in the movie? Would you rate it in the top 10 sci-fi films, what #? What do you like about the film? If they were to remake it, who should star in it and direct it? Brad Dourif, James Cameran?
BUDDY6414724297 2 years ago
If they remake it I think Sam Rockwell would be a perfect choice to play the part of Lovell. The actor has that certain 'quality' that is similar to Bruce Dern.
My fave scenes would be the card game with the drones, the scene as he gets ready to destroy himself and the ship and the final scene/end credits.
TK42138 2 years ago
Good luck with documentary. Look forward to seeing it. One of my fave movies. It has a moral that is more relevent now than when it did back in early seventies. Technically the film is up there with 2001 A Space Odyssey. Production, art direction and set design are awesome even by today's green-screen obsessed Cgi heavy movies. You can't beat a real set for adding realism and some of the interior shots were filmed on an old aircraft carrier with additional set dressing. Cheap but effective.
TK42138 2 years ago
I have it on good authority -- namely, director Andrew Stanton -- that this film was one of the inspirations for the film "Wall-E".
Edotter 2 years ago
such a sad film but awsome at the same time. We as a human race are taking far to much for granted.
andysim212 2 years ago 17
@andysim212
human "species" not race.
No one points out that, if we develop the apparent capability for artificial gravity as displayed in this movie... population won't be an issue. We will have the stars in our pocket.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
Brad Dourif he could play Freeman Lowel in the remake?
What dou you think?
ghostmanlostsoul 2 years ago
I don't think a remake could do this movie justice. It was too far ahead of it's time.
It would be like trying to remake ALIEN.
Just shouldn't be done...
CSXer 2 years ago 2
This is one of the most under-rated movies of all time. The visuals, story line and message are excellent. And then there is Bruce Dern; the perfect actor to play this part. The only other actor that I think could pull this off is Kevin Klein. I saw this movie on the big screen when it first came out and The opening shots trough the vegitation in the pod burned itself into my mind. If I need proof that a big screen is better than a TV, this movie provides it.
JustaSmuck 2 years ago 6
i dont mind remakes its inspiring for me to see people retrying things i thing were good.
but if the remake sucks gonna kill you...KILL YOU ALL :D lol
matisamd 2 years ago
i liked the recent King Kong remake.
jstephenj 2 years ago
So did I especially the bust up between Kong and the three super T Rex's. Those scenes were worth the admission ticket price.
TK42138 2 years ago
there are alot of minutes in a life, this was 90 or so i recon could be spent worse :)
matisamd 2 years ago
great misanthropic film
walter0bz 2 years ago
Please, no remake. This movie is what it is, superb and a creation of its time. You can never improve it!
Bhamjiboy6 2 years ago 3
I love you - Dewey
angryveryoldman 2 years ago 2
I can't believe they're going to remake it
wazzonah 2 years ago
Are they going to remake it? Starlog magazine said no to them remaking this one.
BUDDY6414724297 2 years ago
I watched the film here on Youtube and some comments spoke about a possible remake. Wall-E is a good enough remake of this film. Even the Wall-E creator said this is his favorite film.
wazzonah 2 years ago
When?????
paleomangary 2 years ago
Well, I heard there were rumors of a remake. Not sure when exactly. Wall-E was enough of a 'remake' of this movie.
wazzonah 2 years ago
At 0:28 Dewey looks up at us as to say goodbye. This movie was so well done.
Viperkal 2 years ago
Sissel should record this song.
Viperkal 2 years ago
fantastic
DaxShadow 2 years ago
realmente preciosa pelicula
lavad253 2 years ago
Is it "Heels of children" or " Fields of children running wild"? Emotional ending for sure. I remember being thrilled when Starlost came out as a short lived series. The Ark was similar to Valley Forge.
Viperkal 2 years ago
"Fields of children running wild" and starlost used the footage from SILENT RUNNING.They do stuff like that on TV all the time to save money.
ghostmanlostsoul 2 years ago
Interesting. I was seven sitting in the front row of our local theatre watching in utter amazment. Still strikes an emotional cord.
Viperkal 2 years ago
A beautiful ending to a wonderful movie.
andrewelo 2 years ago
This scene breaks my heart. I was misty eyed the first time i saw it on TV.
ghostmanlostsoul 2 years ago 3
Such a sad ending. I was blubbing small boy as I didn't want that robot to be left on it's own. The music didn't make matter's easier either.
bondbug73 3 years ago 7
Remeber it on tv,
Never fotgot it.
Sad
Lydia1712 2 years ago