American Experience: Earth Days

Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, "Earth Days" looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement — from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller "Silent Spring," to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. "Earth Days'" secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. "Earth Days" is both a poetic meditation on man's relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements — and missed opportunities — of groundbreaking eco-activism.