If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (documentary)

[bryanpaul]

If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front' explores two 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.
• Visit the If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front webpage
video---> http://video.pbs.org/video/2122024902#

 

[pigpen]

thanks for posting this, i'd been looking for an online version since it came out earlier this year.

if you like this, you may also like Bold Native. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPe-sAK2fS0&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL7E20AA9F29840201

they use some real footage from a l f raids, but the story itslef is dramaticized and is by no means a documentary. still entertaining though.

thanks again for the post, ima smoke some hash and watch this right now.

 

[bryanpaul]

i love how there's an ad for goldman sachs before the video starts

 

[godsahn]

I just got this off Netflix, I am pretty excited to watch it. I'll report back with my opinion when I'm done.

 

[Nelco]

I just got this off Netflix, I am pretty excited to watch it. I'll report back with my opinion when I'm done.

i'll do the same...thanks for sharing it

 

[godsahn]

on a somewhat related topic, here is a link to some pretty good free streaming movies along the same lines:
END: CIV
The Chicago Conspiracy
Breaking The Spell
pickAxe

http://crimethinc.com/movies/

 

[shiftingGEARS]

link---> http://www.fuckcopyright.blogspot.com/

 

[godsahn]

Having known a good deal about the ELF/Green Scare before watching this movie, I didn't find anything too groundbreaking in it. With that said, I thought they did a good job illustrating both sides of the coin. I would like to have seen them talk a bit more about certain issues/topics relating to the ELF movement and the broader picture of things. End:CIV talks about some of the broader aspects I thought that may have been brought up in this movie.

If you are readily aware of the ELF you may not find it to groundbreaking, but none-the-less it is a good documentary that establishes a dialogue that I think could be more prevalent in todays social commentary.

7/10

 

[bicycle]

write him!