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  • Summary: 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. (Zeitgeisist Films) Expand
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  1. A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
  2. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    80
    A moving, elegiac, deeply contemplative work that leaves the viewer not with a save-the-world checklist, but rather a spirit of hopeful reflection.
  3. 78
    An informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players.
  4. Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    60
    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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