In 1971, a group of friends sail a boat into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. How To Change the World is a hippie heist movie, the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement, using rare archival footage that brings their extraordinary world to life.
»There are lots of reasons to explore this story now. I think we’re in a phase which is perhaps a bit like the end of the sixties – the death throes of one kind of social organization and the emergence of something different – or at least the need for it. I was also interested in how older people thought about their radical past. I thought maybe we could make a film in which the lessons of that period became visible to a younger generation.« (Jerry Rothwell)
Jerry Rothwell (filmography)
Deep Water (2006)
Heavy Load (2008)
Donor Unknown (2010)
Town of Runners (2012)