If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - Documentary Trailer - POV 2011 | PBS

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"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" - POV 2011
by Marshall Curry

"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" explores two of America's most pressing issues — environmentalism and terrorism — by lifting the veil on a radical environmental group the FBI calls America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." Daniel McGowan, a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, faces life in prison for two multimillion-dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. What turned this working-class kid from Queens into an eco-warrior? Marshall Curry (Oscar®-nominated "Street Fight," POV 2005) provides a nuanced and provocative account that is part coming-of-age story, part cautionary tale and part cops-and-robbers thriller. A co-production of ITVS. Winner of Best Documentary Editing Award, 2011 Sundance Film Festival. (90 minutes)

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The new season of PBS' award-winning documentary series POV (Point of View) kicks off on Tuesday June 21, 2011 at 10 p.m. (check local listings) with "Kings of Pastry," D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' behind-the-scenes account of France's greatest pastry competition, an epic, three-day test of passion, perseverance, artistry and nerves. In advance of the new season, on Tuesday, June 7, POV will present a special encore broadcast of the Oscar-nominated film "The Most Dangerous Man in America," in honor of the 40th anniversary of Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers, an event that changed the course of the Vietnam War and world history.

The 24th season of POV airs on PBS on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. from June 21-Sept. 27, 2011, and will continue with fall 2011 and winter/spring 2012 specials. POV is American television's longest-running independent documentary series. It is the winner of a Special Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking, an International Documentary Association Award for Best Continuing Series and NALIP's 2011 Award for Corporate Commitment to Diversity.

POV's new slate of documentaries tells of people as different as cowboys herding sheep into Montana's rugged mountains for the last time and aspiring teenage NASCAR drivers whirling around tracks at 70 miles per hour before they're old enough for driver's licenses. In addition, POV and the renowned oral-history project StoryCorps will team up for the second year to present everyday people's intimate conversations in five imaginative and whimsical animated shorts, on television and online.

Also included are soldiers at war and at home, in "Armadillo" and "Where Soldiers Come From;" political activists who cross the line into law-breaking and authorities who may be crossing their own lines to catch them, in "Better This World" and "If a Tree Falls;" Chinese workers caught in the largest human migration in history, in "Last Train Home;" a Colombian librarian whose books travel on hooves through inhospitable jungles, in "Biblioburro;" Finnish men unburdening themselves in a most surprising fashion, in "Steam of Life;" Russian classmates reflecting on their country's sweeping transformations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, in "My Perestroika;" and a cunning Cambodian journalist who elicits a startling admission about the 1970s "killing fiends" from the highest-ranking surviving Khmer Rouge leader, in "Enemies of the People."

Check out the 2011 season trailers at http://www.youtube.com/povdocs and http://www.pbs.org/pov

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• environment
• terrorism
• domestic terrorism documentary
• green
• trailer

[hollyspry]

If only all journalists reported so objectively. This film was so well done, I cannot say enough good things about it.

[firesong888]

I'm glad this movie was made. It brings to light the dangers of the copious usage of the term "terrorist" as a means to bundle acts against business as acts against the state. Whereas fifty years ago, these people would be tried as arsonists, and given a sentence or fine appropriate with the destruction of property, these days you can't see past the label the state (the fbi) has given them. With this state sanctioned label, it seems the power to discuss and reason out the crimes is mislaid.

[VoterMarch]

Screening in New York City and Q&A with Co-Director

Friday, February 17, 2011, @ 7:00 p.m.

Epifaneo.com Collective

56 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan 10013

(1 block below Canal St. between Broadway & Church Street)

A Q&A with co-director Sam Cullman will follow the screening. Cullman graduated from Brown University, and founded Yellow Cake Films in 2006. He is producer, director and cinematographer of a number of award winning documentaries and short films.

A donation of $5 is suggested.

[iMargie4Music]

I watched this video for the first time a while ago...it absolutely struck me. This video has made me a treehugger

[SuperAnimalDrummer]

awesome film

[ericzum]

This is an amazing film.

[netoec]

nothing good comes out of terrorism no matter the cause

[mxcote]

The FBI has an entire group dedicated to Eco-terrorism.