If a Tree Falls (DVD)

This is the remarkable story of the ELF’s early rise and fall, as told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF. Using never-before-seen archival footage and intimate interviews with cell members and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them this film asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.