Earth Days (2009)

The new documentary by Robert Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) is a rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America. Stone talks to a number of the men and women who elevated the issue into a cause, taking us back to a time before the desire to conserve the planet's resources carried leftist associations. The film captures how the first disseminated photograph of Earth from outer space revolutionized our collective sense of how vulnerable the planet was. After the activist '70s came three decades of tree-hugger–versus–drill baby drill! debate. But Earth Days looks at truths that are no longer so inconvenient