This feature-length documentary chronicles how the global environment ended up in the place it is today through the eyes of 9 Americans whose work and actions launched the modern environmental movement. It examines the environmental and health consequences of America’s post-World War II economic growth and its quest to become a materially affluent society. The film uses personal narratives to show how people became awakened to the environmental crisis, examining both the root causes of humanity’s impact on the Earth’s ecosystem and our more recent efforts to confront them. The film offers credibility and objectivity through an interview structure that largely foregoes a predefined narrative while conveying the importance of environmental protection.

 When I set out to make Earth Days, it was a film that I knew would be very close to my heart, a story that not only told an important piece of history about a movement that changed the way we look at the world around us, but one that I had begun to tell in my first foray into film at age 12. It was a short 3 minute film about pollution in the small New Jersey town where I grew up. Since then I’ve had the urge to create something that speaks to the ideas behind what inspired me to make that first film.
 While there have been many films, especially recently, about the environment and about the effects of pollution on our earth, atmosphere and ecosystem, really taking a strong look at what started the environmental movement like Earth Days does, hadn’t yet been examined. It’s a film that looks to the past to see where we’re headed, to see how divisiveness can distract us and how these pioneers united the country at one moment in history to declare a truth for the good of humanity and for the good of the earth, as transitory as that truth may have been, it had lasting effects on our politics and culture.
(Robert Stone, Director, Producer, and Writer)

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