The American Experience 1993 - 56 minutes With Meryl Streep as the voice of Rachel Carson This is a film about Rachel Carson and the book that helped to begin the modern environmental movement and which has had a profound effect on the conservation of marine and aquatic life, as well as the quality of air, water and soil in all environments.
Peter Bratt/2007/56 min/Health & Environment
Her 1963 warnings about the effects of pesticides and herbicides - especially DDT - sparked a revolution in environmental policy and created a new ecological consciousness.