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Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
About the playlist
This playlist consists of the trailer and 6 clips from Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. The clips represent different aspects of David Suzuki's life – his Japanese-Canadian heritage, his work as a biologist and his life as an activist.
The film had its world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Cadillac People’s Choice Documentary Award.
About the film
In Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie the iconic scientist’s “last lecture” is intercut with emotional scenes that trace his life’s journey, from an internment camp in British Columbia and the swamps of small-town Ontario to a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima and the CBC studios, where for decades he has created his much-loved, award-winning TV show, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. The film encourages the examination of world events in relation to oneself and one another, as well as our interconnections with nature.
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie is directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and produced by Entertainment One in co-production with the National Film Board and in association with the CBC.
Education
About the Educator’s Guides
The purpose of these guides is to encourage teachers of grades 9–12 to incorporate the National Film Board documentary Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie into their lesson plan by identifying where and how the film can support current curriculum expectations. In addition to connecting film content with subject outcomes, the guide offers a number of suggestions and activities to help teachers extend the discussion of a variety of themes, organized under the following headings:
• Population, Consumption and Sustainable Development
• Internment, Hiroshima, Human Rights and the Next Generation
• Science and Technology in Society
These units can be explored selectively or collectively, depending on their relevance to the curriculum for which the teacher is responsible. An adaptation of this guide has also been developed in French to accompany the French version of the film. This guide can be downloaded here.
Selected films
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Trailer)
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At 73 years of age, David Suzuki, the iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, delivers what he describes as "a last lecture - a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die."
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie interweaves this lecture ... - by - ONFB ,
- 2010,
- 2 min 2 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 1)
- Internment - David visits an internment camp in the Slocan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, where, at 6 years old, he and his family were interned by the Canadian government.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 2 min 14 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 2)
- Swamp Life - As a member of the only coloured family in small town Ontario, teenaged David didn’t get a lot of dates with white girls. Instead he found another pastime which lead to a career in science.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 1 min 15 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 3)
- Maggots - Vintage footage of David in the 60s as a professor in the Genetics Department at UBC where his thinking influenced thousands of students, including a young Sturla Gunnarsson.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 1 min 46 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 4)
- We Are Air - David has spent a lifetime of thinking about how we are all connected. He articulates that concept in this short lesson.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 1 min 49 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 5)
- Flying into Haida Gwaii - In the early 1980s, David visited Haida Gwaii for the first time when Haida President Miles Richardson was leading a campaign to stop the logging of Windy Bay on South Moresby Island in British Columbia.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 1 min 40 s
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Clip 6)
- Bluefin Tuna Auction - Filmed at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan, David calls the liquidation of the coveted Bluefin Tuna an intergenerational crime.
- by Sturla Gunnarsson ,
- 2010,
- 1 min 32 s
