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

Documentary that goes inside the Earth Liberation Front, a radical group of greenies described by the FBI as America's "number one domestic terrorism threat".

"Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the case of Daniel McGowan, an apparently mild-mannered New Yorker arrested in 2005 for his participation in the radical Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Activists watched native forests toppled and, disillusioned by the violent suppression of public protest, targeted property (never endangering human life); the Forestry Service and mill owners watched fortunes torched by the increasingly random ELF; FBI officers were galled to the point of obsession by the tactical brilliance of ‘the nation’s number one domestic terrorism threat’. Every one of them has much to learn from listening to the others – and several of them have subsequently admitted it." (Source: New Zealand International Film Festival 2011)

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