In the late 1960s, a few free thinkers cobbled together donations, primarily from Hollywood, to buy 80 acres at the end of a dirt road in Siskiyou County, California: Big Bear Ranch, a commune with the motto “free land for free people.” Archival footage, photographs, documents and news articles, and interviews with people who lived or still live there tell the commune’s history: the cold first winter, women and men doing the same work, communal decision making, emerging environmental politics, free love and family formation, child rearing and memories of growing up there, a late 70’s crisis with a cult-like group that moved in, and assessment by those grown old of what Big Bear meant. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.6/10 | |
Released: | July 26, 2005 | |
Runtime: | 78 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Five Points Media | |
Cast: | Peter Coyote Mahaj Seeger Cedar Seeger | |
Crew: | Jonathan Berman | |
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