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Documentary on the earliest days of Greenpeace, detailing the group's evolution from loose collection of activists protesting a nuclear test...
Documentary on the earliest days of Greenpeace, detailing the group's evolution from loose collection of activists protesting a nuclear test to structured organisation taking on the whale hunting industry. How To Change The World delves into Greenpeace's massive archive of mint condition 16mm film and supplements this footage with contemporary interviews as key participants reminisce over the often-adversarial formation of the global movement.
"How To Change The World unfolds as a hippie heist movie-turned-high sea adventure but remains an intimate portrait of the group’s original members and of activism itself—idealism vs. pragmatism, principle vs. compromise. They agreed that a handful of people could change the world; they just couldn’t agree how to do it." (Sundance Film Festival)
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"Not content to simply recount the storied origins of Greenpeace, Jerry Rothwell’s How to Change the World also doubles as a pointed study of leadership, power and the splintering of solidarity in the quest for a revolution. The doco’s early passages certainly capture the reckless rush of the environmental movement’s roots: Rothwell’s staging evokes the heist-thriller mode of The Cove, following Canadian journalist Bob Hunter and his motley team of beardy “eco-freaks” as they attempt to stop a nuclear bomb test in Amchitka, Alaska in 1971."
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Flicks
Flicks"Focuses engagingly on the human dynamics, particularly the role of late leader Bob Hunter."
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Variety
Variety"A sleekly packaged documentary with a tendency to simplify history to heighten the drama."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"This spends more time on the tensions between the dominant trio than their landmark campaigning."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineHow to Change the World | Details
- Rating
- 15, strong language, images of bloody real animal slaughter
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- Canada, UK
