‘The Flood’ is a Forgotten Masterpiece of Environmental Devastation

We are at the mercy of nature. Given the advent of global climate change, it’s no surprise that this has become a prevalent theme in today’s cinema. The most interesting nonfiction films about humanity’s fight with the environment have been the most visceral, like Peter Mettler’s Petropolis and Jennifer Baichwal’s Watermark. In these, and their other fi…