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2025

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie

The six-part series is a collaboration of over two dozen Vermont filmmakers, led by award-winning filmmaker Nora Jacobson. Filmmakers, politicians, scholars, artists and citizens probe under Vermont's bucolic surface to reveal stories of class, race, labor, education, culture, the environment, and much more, woven together in a lively tapestry of gorgeous images, voices and people.

1 Season · 6 Episodes

Latest episode

Part Six - People's Power

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie Episode 6 | 80m 8s | CC

Part Six tackles contemporary tensions over energy, independence, the environment and the state's future. Chronicling the struggle to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, it follows the battle over windmills in Lowell and the devastating impacts of Hurricane Irene reveal the power not only of nature, but of people and community.

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