The New Alchemists(1974)

movie - first aired/released 1974-01-01 - audience 9.0

Directed by Dorothy Todd Hénaut

This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Well before sustainability was a mainstream concern, these prescient innovators attempted to create a vision of a greener, kinder world. "Think small," say the New Alchemists. "Look what thinking big has done."