In a time when being "green" is fashionable they forget the efforts of thousands of people who have fought for generations to raise awareness in the abysmal apathy of conformism... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Earth Days is indicative of some of the most troubling aspects of any movement started and run by humans, namely hubris, ego, self-righteousness and bombast, etc. This is not to say you shouldn't go and see the film.

| Aug 22, 2017

History of the environmental movement told by its activists is small in scope, but contains fascinating morsels that sustain interest.

| Aug 15, 2011

dynamic kaleidoscope of those heady days when revolution was palpable, and individuals really believed to the core of their being that they could change the world

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 21, 2010

[A] bunch of planet-sized brains secure enough in their doomy conclusions to deliver essential information without being strident about it. If you're going to be talked at, this is the way to go.

| Dec 11, 2009

If you're feeling nostalgic for a time when the environmental movement was something everyone embraced, Robert Stone's Earth Days is bound to comfort -- and alarm.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2009

Considering the environmental glass houses we've constructed around us, one comes away from Earth Days wondering if it's not past time for some bricks to be slung, metaphorical or otherwise.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2009

...mostly a celebration of gray eminences who are very satisfied with themselves.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 30, 2009

Honoring the heroes of the environmental movement is clearly appropriate, but getting mired in nostalgia is a dirty shame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2009

Yes, the future still looks grim and whales are hunted here as they are in all such films, but Stone spends most of his time tracking something positive -- the birth of the environmental movement in the '60s and '70s.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2009

If the aim of Earth Days is to make viewers refall in love with the beauty of this tiny planet, then it succeeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2009

It's hard to watch this movie without feeling a little depressed and despondent about the future of mankind and its home.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2009

Earth Days captures those years when through sheer relentlessness, activists broke through to the public and put the mounting disaster at its doorstep.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2009

A surprise of Earth Days is seeing Richard Nixon signing progressive eco-legislation and starting the Environmental Protection Agency.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2009

A surprisingly calm documentary about the history of American ecological activism. But it's good calm, not dead calm.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2009

A surprisingly engaging ecodocumentary about the history of the American environmental movement from the Depression era up to the present.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2009

We may still have a long way to go but Earth Days applauds those who have helped bring us this far.

| Sep 11, 2009

These people, including Whole Earth catalog editor Stewart Brand and 87-year-old former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, are smart and interesting folks who are worth listening to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2009

A rich trove of news clips and interviews inform Robert Stone's fast-moving documentary about the movement to save the planet and the cultural forces that helped it along or held it back.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Crusty eco-hippies spin random anecdotes about olden times in Earth Days, a turgid documentary on the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2009