4. A Fierce Green Fire
Site rank 11, IMDb rank 3; Overall Score =14
Directed by Mark Kitchell
A Fierce Green Fire documents the development of the environmentalist movement since its beginning in the 1960s, from the rise of Greenpeace to the current struggle for stopping and reversing global climate change. The title is taken from the Aldo Leopold’s book A Sand County Almanac, in which he describes the death of a wolf: “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.” The film, narrated by Robert Redford and Meryl Streep among others, is immense in scope. Kitchell himself described it as the greatest challenge of his career. The environmentalist movement is the largest in history and some would argue that it is the most important as well. The film does a good job in portraying its history.
