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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.

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Part Three - Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie Episode 3 | 76m 0s | CC

In the mid-20th century, political pioneers Bill Meyer and Governor Phil Hoff rose to take the lead in state politics. Innovation was everywhere: in the work of Snowflake Bentley and Thaddeus Fairbanks, in the rise of IBM, and the creation of Interstate highways. Rare archival footage provides a look at the realities of communal life and the counter-culture who established roots in Vermont.

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