Amy Goodman
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Earth Day Special: "Fierce Green Fire" Documentary Explores Environmental Movement's Global Rise 1/2
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1:40Now PlayingIn an Earth Day special, we look at the history of the global environmental movement as told in the sweeping new documentary, "A Fierce Green FireThe Battle for a Living Planet." We air extended highlights from the film from New York housewives who take on a major chemical company that polluted their community of Love Canal, to Greenpeace's campaigns to save whales, to the fight by Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubber tappers to save the Amazon rainforest. We also speak to the film's Oscarnominated director, Mark Kitchell. "We were really looking to tell stories of the movement. We thought it would be a more engaging and impassioned approach to what are very difficult subjects. Usually environmental films, no matter how good they are, are an eco bummer," Kitchell says. "These people succeed against enormous odds. And that should give us some kind of hope." "A Fierce Green Fire" airs tonight on PBS American Masters.
See extended clips from the film and watch our full interview with director Mark Kitchell:
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