The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
1 audience votes
Key crew
- David ByarsDirector
- Lyman SmithWriter
- Stephanie NicoraOriginal Music Composer
- Bill ReynoldsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Hal HerringSelf - Journalist
- Terry Tempest WilliamsSelf - Author
- Angelo BacaSelf - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker
- Spencer ShaverSelf - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters
- Marshall HelmbergerSelf - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper
- Levi LexvoldSelf - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters
- Douglas BrinkleySelf - Professor of History at Rice University
- Patrick SheaSelf - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management
- Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
- Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
- James G. WattSelf - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)
- Charles WohlforthSelf - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News