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Earth Days

EMAILPRINTZeitgeist Films

Earth Days reviews
70
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Robert Stone

Directed by: Robert Stone

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 14, 2009

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Stewart Udall, Dennis Hayes, Stewart Brand, Rusty Schweickart, Hunter Lovins, Dennis Meadows, Stephanie Mills, and Pete McCloskey

A visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring look-back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. (Zeitgeist Films)

What The Critics Said

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100

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.

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83

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Devotees of the "Whole Earth Catalogue" may regard this film as a nostalgia trip, but it's much more comprehensive, more forward-looking than that.

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80

Variety Justin Chang

A moving, elegiac, deeply contemplative work that leaves the viewer not with a save-the-world checklist, but rather a spirit of hopeful reflection.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

An informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Nearly a quarter of the way through Earth Days, the movie seems on-track to being just another tongue-clucking “Isn’t it a pity” doc, painted in broad strokes.

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70

Village Voice Melissa Anderson

There's great archival footage.

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70

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Feels like a prolonged campfire conversation, filled with weathered, measured talk about holistic thinking and finding a new perspective.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

There is a sense of sadness around Earth Days, a sense that opportunities were not capitalized on, that not enough was done.

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63

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

There's little that's new in the retelling, except mellowed musings on Environmentalism 2.0.

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber

Documentaries are a hard sell these days, and despite the timely, pertinent subject, the film simply doesn't have enough entertainment value to draw an audience to the multiplex.

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60

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Even with all the inconvenient truths exposed, Stone's film is still, sadly, inescapably crucial.

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50

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

A sedate chronicle of the highs and lows of the environmental movement, Earth Days is less a rousing call to action than a bittersweet stroll down memory lane.

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What Our Users Said

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