Based in part on the book The Burning season by Andrew Revkin. Videocassette release of the 1994 television motion picture production. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Kamala Dawson, Luis Guzman, Nigel Havers, Tomas Milian, Esai Morales, Tony Plana, Marco Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos.
Summary:
Spurred to action after a key organizer of the rain forest's working poor is slain, Mendes stands firm against slash-and-burn deforestation. He becomes a nonviolent activist, union leader, political candidate and a recognized authority who helps alert the world to the plight of the Amazon.
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