Summary
In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the motto "Free Land for Free People." This film tells the story of that intended utopia.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+26)
Critics 85Audiences 59GoodWatch 66
Tomatometer96%
Metascore74
IMDb6.6
Letterboxd · 210 ratings3.3/5
Audience score47%
Running time
1 h 18 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −18 min on the typical 96
typical 9678Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2005
April 7, 2005
21 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Jonathan Berman Director, Writer, Producer
Production · 2
- Christian Ettinger Co-Producer
- Brian Keith Tanz Co-Producer
Sound · 1
- Elliott Sharp Music
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