COMMUNE - DVD-DOCUMENTARY

Details

• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Mahaj Seeger, Peter Coyote, Cedar Seeger
• Director: Jonathan Berman
• Runtime: 78 min
• Media Format: movie