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Earth Days is a 2009 documentary film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States. It was directed by Robert Stone and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films while in theaters. Earth Days premiered on United States television April 19. 2010 at 9pm on PBS as part of the American Experience history series. Earth Days interweaves personal testimony and archival media. 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... MORE

Earth Days is a 2009 documentary film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States. It was directed by Robert Stone and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films while in theaters. Earth Days premiered on United States television April 19. 2010 at 9pm on PBS as part of the American Experience history series. Earth Days interweaves personal testimony and archival media. 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 successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. The stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/The Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart who mentions "the world we are in becomes the planet we are on" (per Earthrise); Dennis Meadows "The Forecaster" scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management; Pete McCloskey "The Politician" former Republican who co-authored the 1973 Endangered Species Act LESS