The purpose of this blog is to investigate movies (feature films, documentaries, cartoons, serials, and shorts) that are about chemists or that have storylines involving chemistry. These movies mediate the way the public understands chemists and chemistry. These movies also provide useful material for teaching about the relationship between chemistry and society. Some entries will reveal more about movie production aspects than chemical aspects whereas others will show how real chemistry found its way into particular movies. Some entries will describe research that is still in progress while the entry for A Modern Dr. Jekyll (1909) will reveal the answer to a long-standing mystery. Most of the entries were researched using the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds that Marjorie Mikasen and I received to write our book ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies (2009) New York: Oxford University Press. If you are interested, you can download a copy of the movies described in the book here.
