Film

Down By The Riverside

Name: Down By The Riverside
Genre: Indie
Released: 2007

20231 hr 25 min

Directed by Dan Messina

With Pete Seeger, Toshi Seeger, Jimmy Collier, Gordon Bok, Allan Aunapu

Documentary

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In the 1960s, the American folk singer Pete Seeger devised an extraordinary plan: he built a 106-foot sailboat to save the polluted Hudson River. Down by the Riverside follows the unlikely story of the Clearwater, a boat that launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his wife Toshi, and the grassroots community they anchored for over 40 years, the film takes the audience on a musical and nautical odyssey, showing how an unconventional campaign to save a beloved American waterway prompted a green revolution. The tale of the Clearwater is a parable for our time, offering hope for a fractured nation and revealing how participatory imagination can solve environmental problems and transform how we relate not only to the earth but also to one another.