Rachel Carson
American Experience 2017⎪112 min
Few books in the history of American letters have been as controversial or as impactful as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Published in the midst of the so-called Chemical Age, Carson's groundbreaking bestseller took aim at the widespread use of synthetic pesticides and raised provocative questions about the hidden costs of human progress. In the event, the book and its author provoked a fierce national argument about the pros and cons of tampering with nature, and effectively launched the modern environmental movement.
Rachel Carson recounts the dramatic tale of Silent Spring and of the demure, intensely private writer whose challenge to the orthodoxies of her time forever reframed our relationship to the natural world.
2018 Writers Guild of America nominee
Written and Directed by
Michelle Ferrari
Produced by
Rafael de la Uz
Michelle Ferrari
Director of Photography
Rafael de la Uz
Edited by
Peter Livingston, Jr.
Narrated by
Oliver Platt
Original Score by
Nathan Halpern