Events: Films

“Galapágos – The Islands that Changed the World” (50 min.)
Yale Peabody Museum
Thursdays in April at 3:00 p.m.
April 20–25 at 3:00 p.m.
Sundays in April at 2:00 p.m.
This high-definition documentary film combines stunning wildlife images with dramatic historical recreations to explore the hidden side of these unique islands and why, more than any place, they are a showcase for evolution.
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“Survival of the Fittest” Film Series
Yale Center for British Art
Selected to complement the exhibition “Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts,this series highlights films that explore various themes of survival. Unless otherwise noted, all screenings are in the Center’s Lecture Hall and are free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 200.

Saturday, April 4, 2:00 p.m.
“The Sea Wolf”(1941)
Directed by Michael Curtiz (not rated; 90 minutes). A writer and two fugitives have been given refuge aboard a ship commanded by a cruel captain. The crew mutinies, and the three men try to escape. However, they find themselves drawn inexorably back to the captain as the ship sails toward disaster.

Saturday, April 11, 2:00 p.m.
“Planet of the Apes”(1968)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (rated g; 112 minutes). An astronaut, George Taylor, crash lands on a distant planet ruled by intelligent apes who use humans for experimentation and sport. When Taylor is captured, he finds himself among the hunted and his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Saturday, April 18, 2:00 p.m.
“Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes”(1984)
Directed by Hugh Hudson (rated pg; 143 minutes). A nineteenth-century shipping disaster strands a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The woman eventually gives birth to a son in their tree house. When a family of apes stumbles upon the family both parents are killed,
and a female ape raises the boy as her own son. Twenty years later, a sea captain discovers the grown Tarzan; when evidence in the tree house suggests that Tarzan is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, the captain decides to force his return to civilization.

Saturday, May 2, 2:00 p.m.
“Inherit the Wind”(1960)
Directed by Stanley Kramer (rated pg; 128 minutes). A science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution becomes the focus of a case argued by two famous lawyers. The film is based on actual events that took place in Tennessee in 1925.