Public Trust
2020, English. Directed by David Byars.
The fight for America's public lands.
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
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- 1h 36m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- David ByarsDirector
- Hal HerringSelf - Journalist
- Terry Tempest WilliamsSelf - Author
- Angelo BacaSelf - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker
- Spencer ShaverSelf - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters
- Marshall HelmbergerSelf - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper
- Levi LexvoldSelf - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters
- Douglas BrinkleySelf - Professor of History at Rice University
- Patrick SheaSelf - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management
- Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
- Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
- James G. WattSelf - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)
- Charles WohlforthSelf - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News
Details
- Released
- 17 February 2020
- Written by
- Lyman Smith
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Public Trust runs 96 minutes (1h 36m).
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Public Trust isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free or rent it or buy it online. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like Public Trust?
If you liked Public Trust, try A Toxic Love Story, Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story, S4: The Bob Lazar Story.
Who directed Public Trust?
Public Trust (2020) was directed by David Byars and stars Hal Herring, Terry Tempest Williams, Angelo Baca.