Career Highlights
- Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
- Acclaimed documentaries include Radio Bikini (1987), Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) and Oswald's Ghost (2007)
- Earth Days chronicles the birth and development of the modern day environmental movement
Career Overview
Robert Stone is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. His first film, Radio Bikini (1987) was nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Academy Award. His most recent films include Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) and Oswald's Ghost (2007).
Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-—from its post-war rumblings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film is an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements-—and missed opportunities-—of groundbreaking eco-activism. The 2-hour documentary premieres Monday, April 19, 2010 on PBS -- 40 years after the first Earth Day in 1970.
Our Interview
Robert Stone will join ThinkTalk Host Erika Thomas in early April to discuss his career, take questions from students and talk about the film Earth Days. Be sure to have your question in by Monday, April 5th.
