If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

After the fiction comes the real stuff. This movie is about the elves out there, I mean, the E.L.F, and the shift of tactics from tree-sitting to going to burn down mills. As apologism of a terrorist organisation, it also contains a lot of reflexions and repentance, on specific actions that also had unwanted consequences or were misplanned, but in the end it is what it claims to be : a documentary on earth defenders, activism, around the pacific northwest and the eugene green anarchist scene in the 1990's. It then goes on to follow the case of Daniel McGowan, and his codefendent, whose actions were never linked to them until the police taskforce working on it found a weaker link to pressure to wear a wiretap and trick all of them into remembering vocally the past, so yeah, it's about the E.L.F and it's repression, making sure to include all possible viewpoints (the police who worked against them, the prosecutors from the legal system, the mills owners, other activists with different viewpoints, the snitch, etc.).