Commune(2005)

Name: Commune
Director: Jonathan Berman
Genre: Documentary
Released: Jul 11, 2025
Cast: Mahaj Seeger, Peter Coyote, Cedar Seeger

First Run Features

1h 18m
- Documentary

Release Date: Jul 11, 2025

A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.

Release Details

2025 Re-release | Jul 11, 2025 | Limited

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Director & Top Cast

Jonathan Berman
Director

Mahaj Seeger
Self - Black Bear Resident

Peter Coyote
Self - Black Bear Resident

Cedar Seeger
Self - Black Bear Resident

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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

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Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

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In the late 1960s, a few free thinkers cobbled together donations, primarily from Hollywood, to buy 80 acres at the end of a dirt road in Siskiyou County, California: Big Bear Ranch, a commune with the motto "free land for free people." Archival footage, photographs, documents and news articles, and interviews with people who lived or still live there tell the commune's history: the cold first winter, women and men doing the same work, communal decision making, emerging environmental politics, free love and family formation, child rearing and memories of growing up there, a late 70's crisis with a cult-like group that moved in, and assessment by those grown old of what Big Bear meant. —

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Commune(2005)

Current Showtimes

Director & Top Cast

Jonathan Berman

Mahaj Seeger

Peter Coyote

Cedar Seeger

Technical Specifications

Other Details

Summaries

Storyline

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