Stewart Udall,
Denis Hayes,
Stewart Brand,
Rusty Schweickart,
Hunter Lovins
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While the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 has been cited by many as the dawn of the environmental movement, the celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970 demonstrated to man... read more
DVD Release Date: April 20, 2010
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April 4, 2009Saw at the Wisconsin Film Festival. Fascinating history of the things that worked and what didn't in the environmental movement in the US. Wonderful to have the legends of the struggle talk about what they did and where they think they failed and what they are doing now.
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October 23, 2009
Tom Long, Detroit News
October 8, 2009
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Earth Days captures those years when through sheer relentlessness, activists broke through to the public and put the mounting disaster at its doorstep. Full Review
September 18, 2009
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
A surprisingly engaging ecodocumentary about the history of the American environmental movement from the Depression era up to the present. Full Review
August 21, 2009
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
These people, including Whole Earth catalog editor Stewart Brand and 87-year-old former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, are smart and interesting folks who are worth listening to. Full Review
August 14, 2009
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
A rich trove of news clips and interviews inform Robert Stone's fast-moving documentary about the movement to save the planet and the cultural forces that helped it along or held it back. Full Review
August 14, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Crusty eco-hippies spin random anecdotes about olden times in Earth Days, a turgid documentary on the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s. Full Review
August 14, 2009
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
At once regretful and optimistic, frustrated and proud. Mr. Stone has shown us the way; now all we need is the will. Full Review
August 12, 2009
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America. Full Review
August 11, 2009
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
There's great archival footage (those anti-pollution PSAs with Iron Eyes Cody from the '70s remain quite powerful). Full Review
August 4, 2009
Justin Chang, Variety
A quietly majestic survey of the hard-won successes and instructive failures of the American environmental movement. Full Review
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