Commune

Commune is a feature documentary that explores an audacious premise -- that being together in the wilderness will help create revolutionary movement in the rest of society.

During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the country. They aimed to reshape the world with free love and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst local, often rural, residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naïve past, Commune discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch, in Siskiyou County, California.