In the early 1970s actor Peter Coyote and a group of young artists and activists moved to a remote Californian wilderness to create a new world, armed only with the slogan "Free Land for Free People." Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought an abandoned goldmine for $22, 000 and named it Black Bear Ranch. Utopian communities have always been a part of the United States, but in the 60"s and 70"s their audacious goal was to reshape the world with free love and common property-- creating a revolutionary movement that would spread to the rest of society. But utopia is different for each person, and these experiments often brought strife, jealousy and sometimes even endangered lives. Featuring actor Peter Coyote, herbalist Michael Tierra ("The Way of Herbs"), and Chinese medicine pioneers Efrem Korngold and Harriet Beinfield ("Between Heaven & Earth"), this acclaimed documentary offers a candid look into the joys and difficulties of free love, nude farming, survival in the wilderness, multiple-parent childrearing and other fascinating aspects of communal living. With incredible archival footage from the early days to a recent look at the Commune"s offspring today, the new documentary COMMUNE is a fascinating look at how seemingly small personal choices can create shock waves felt around the world. COMMUNE has become a critical favorite, leading the pack on a slate of emerging counter culture/group living docs that question and revise our perception of 60"s and 70"s social movements.