PBS POV - The Fire Next Time (DivX)

Over a stormy two-year period, "The Fire Next Time" follows a deeply divided group of Flathead Valley, Montana citizens caught in a web of conflicts intensified by rapid growth and the power of talk radio. The people of the Flathead Valley in Montana were used to thinking they live in "the last best place in America." Kalispell, the county seat and valley's largest town, means "prairie above the lake." But as revealed by Patrice O'Neill's new film, "The Fire Next Time," the last best place may become the next worst flashpoint in the country's running battle between the forces of economic development, environmental activism, and anti-government extremism. Green swastikas were burned to protest environmental laws. A radio talk show host regularly called for the "eradication" of "green slime" while broadcasting the addresses of local environmental activists. Lug nuts were loosened on a car belonging to an anti-hate campaigner's daughter. While loggers and mill workers were facing lost jobs and rising living costs, right-wing extremists plied them with racist and anti-government rhetoric. Most ominously in news that flashed across the nation and even around the world a shadowy terror group called Project 7 was discovered with a cache of arms and a hit list of local government officials, police officers and their families... More info including the full program synopsis can be found at www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/thefirenexttime/ Video: 512 x 384, 29.97 fps, DivX 4 Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz) Includes bonus director interview.