In 2001, San Francisco filmmaker Mark Kitchell had just sold his Oscar-nominated 1990 documentary, "Berkeley in the Sixties," to television for the third or fourth time. With some cash on hand, he ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Documentaries focused on environmental issues are something of a staple ...

Ardently passionate and naturally provocative, this eco-chronicle has the informality of an Occupy encampment, the militancy of anti-whaler Paul Watson and a genuine sense of history. Ardently ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Mark Kitchell didn’t want to make your standard here’s-a-really-important-issue, ...

It wasn’t long after film director Mark Kitchell received an Academy Award nomination for his 1990 documentary “Berkeley in the Sixties” that he went searching for the subject of his next film.

Keeping dams out of the Grand Canyon, uncovering massive toxic dumping at Love Canal, fighting the devastation of Brazilian rain forests, stopping the slaughter of whales — “A Fierce Green Fire,’’ ...

Next Tuesday (April 22) is Earth Day, and if you happen to have an hour free at 8 p.m. I recommend, I guess, that you tune your TV to PBS for its premiere showing of “A Fierce Green Fire.” If that ...

Like Berkeley in the Sixties, my previous work which has become one of the defining films about the protest movements of the 1960s, A Fierce Green Fire started with the idea that a big-picture ...

Ardently passionate and naturally provocative, this eco-chronicle has the informality of an Occupy encampment, the militancy of anti-whaler Paul Watson and a genuine sense of history. Ardently ...