Public Trust (2020)
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
Director: David Byars
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Hal Herring as Self - Journalist |
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Terry Tempest Williams as Self - Author |
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Angelo Baca as Self - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker |
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Spencer Shaver as Self - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters |
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Marshall Helmberger as Self - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper |
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Levi Lexvold as Self - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters |
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Douglas Brinkley as Self - Professor of History at Rice University |
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Patrick Shea as Self - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management |
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Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage) |
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Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) |
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James G. Watt as Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage) |
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Charles Wohlforth as Self - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News |
| Directing | David Byars | Director |
| Production | Rose Marcario | Executive Producer |
| Production | Alex Lowther | Executive Producer |
| Production | Monika McClure | Executive Producer |
| Production | Josh Nielsen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jeremy Rubingh | Producer |
| Production | Robert Redford | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yvon Chouinard | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Lyman Smith | Editor |
| Camera | David Byars | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Drew Xanthopoulos | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Lyman Smith | Writer |
| Sound | Stephanie Nicora | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Bill Reynolds | Original Music Composer |