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- Dirt! The Movie tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility — from its miraculous beginning to its tragic degradation. This insightful and timely film tells the story of the glorious and unappreciated material beneath our feet.
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Dirt! The Movie is a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. It was inspired by the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan.
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The Movie introduces viewers to dirt’s fascinating history. Four billion years of evolution have created the dirt that recycles our water, gives us food, and provides us with shelter.
Mar 29, 2010 · The film, which is narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, tells the story of humans trying to re-connect to dirt and, as we’re taken from California vineyards to the plains of Kenya, it reveals how repairing our relationship with dirt can create possibilities for all life on earth.
Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researchers explore dirt's capacity to provide solutions to such devastating health crises as AIDS. Major religions are rediscovering the reverence for the natural world that unites them all.
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- Documentary
- Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow, Eleonore Dailly
- 2009
DIRT! The Movie–narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis–brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.
Apr 20, 2010 · Dirt! The Movie. Industrial farming, mining and urban development have endangered soil and resulted in cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. How can humans reconnect to dirt — the living skin of the Earth? Series. Independent Lens. Premiere Date. April 20, 2010. Length. 60 minutes. Award.
dirt! the movie. Synopsis. For most of the last 10 thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. But, over time, we lost that connection. We still depend on dirt, but now we abuse and ignore it.
