History Film / SilentRunning

In the future, the environment of UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} has been destroyed, with the only remaining plant and animal life preserved in domed forests aboard American Airlines space freighters kept in orbit around UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}. Freeman Lowell (Dern), a botanist onboard the freighter ''Valley Forge'' and apparently humanity's last environmentalist, tends to the forests religiously and hopes that they can one day be returned to Earth and used to restore it to its natural state.

When the decision to reassign the freighters and destroy the domes is made, Lowell becomes obsessed with protecting them. He kills his crewmates and escapes with the last dome, assisted by three robot drones he names [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Huey, Dewey, and Louie]]. He must then escape discovery and survive a collision with Saturn's rings.

When the decision to reassign the freighters and destroy the domes is made, Freeman becomes obsessed with protecting them. He kills his crewmates and escapes with the last dome, assisted by three robot drones he names [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Huey, Dewey, and Louie]]. He must then escape discovery and survive a collision with Saturn's rings.

In the future, the environment of UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} has been destroyed, with the only remaining plant and animal life preserved in domed forests aboard American Airlines space freighters kept in orbit around UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}. Freeman Lowell (Dern), a botanist onboard the freighter ''Valley Forge'' and apparently humanity's last environmentalist, tends to the forests religiously and hopes that they can one day be returned to Earth and used to restore it to its natural state. When the decision to reassign the freighters and destroy the domes is made, Freeman becomes obsessed with protecting them. He kills his crewmates and escapes with the last dome, assisted by three robot drones he names [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Huey, Dewey, and Louie]]. He must then escape discovery and survive a collision with Saturn's rings.

''Silent Running'' is an [[GreenAesop environmentally-themed]] [[ScienceFictionFilms Science Fiction Movie]] from 1972 directed by Creator/DouglasTrumbull and starring Creator/BruceDern.

In the future, the environment of UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} has been destroyed, with the only plant and animal life left being preserved in domed forests aboard American Airlines space freighters in orbit around UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}. Freeman Lowell, a botanist onboard the freighter ''Valley Forge'' and apparently humanity's last environmentalist, tends to the forests religiously and hopes that they can one day be returned to Earth and used to restore it to its natural state. When the decision to reassign the freighters and destroy the domes is made, Freeman becomes obsessed with protecting them. He kills his crewmates and escapes with the last dome, assisted by three robot drones he names [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Huey, Dewey, and Louie]]. He must then escape discovery and survive a collision with Saturn's rings.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: The leg injury that Lowell gets during his rebellion eventually worsens and leaves him delirious (and having to seek SelfSurgery) and even after getting it fixed he is forced to hobble around and hold onto any supporting structures within grasp for the rest of the film.

** Except that after the drones perform the procedure to repair his leg, Lowell is seen walking completely normally for the rest of the film.

* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, only Dewey is left "alive" to care for the plants.]]

* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, only Dewey is left "alive" to care for the plants.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, only Dewey is left "alive" to care for the plants.]]

''Silent Running'' is an [[GreenAesop environmentally-themed]] [[ScienceFictionFilms Science Fiction Movie]] from 1972 directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Creator/BruceDern.

* CrapSaccharineWorld: What little is told of Earth paints it this way: sure, there is no longer such a thing as work shortages, but there is the fact that ''humanity has killed all of the plant ecology on the planet''.

* ExplosionsInSpace: A relatively accurate depiction -- nuclear explosions in space are just silent circular flashes that fade away.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: For the most part, falls under Mohs/OneBigLie--or rather, One Small Fib. The softest part of the movie is the unremarked-upon ArtificialGravity.