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From Screen to Community: The Henry David Thoreau Discussion & Engagement Guide

The Walden Woods Project assisted in the creation of WETA’s Henry David Thoreau Discussion & Engagement Guide. The goal of the guide is to … Read more

Bring Thoreau Home: Official “Henry David Thoreau” Documentary Film Poster Now Available

Celebrate the enduring legacy of one of America’s most influential thinkers with the official Henry David Thoreau documentary film poster. Created to commemorate the … Read more

Original Music from “Henry David Thoreau” Now Available to Stream

The soundtrack for Henry David Thoreau is now available to stream! The music for the film was composed by David Cieri, who also composed music … Read more

Interview with The Walden Woods Project Founder/Chairman of the Board Don Henley featured in Boston.com

We hope you enjoy this wonderful piece from Boston.com, written by Lauren Daley, featuring an interview with The Walden Woods Project Founder/Chairman of the … Read more

The Walden Woods Project Hosts Prescreening Event for “Henry David Thoreau” in Concord, MA

The Walden Woods Project had the pleasure of celebrating the new documentary “Henry David Thoreau” with a prescreening event on Monday night (3/23)  in … Read more

First Look at “HENRY DAVID THOREAU” Film

We are excited to share a first look at “HENRY DAVID THOREAU”, a three-hour, three-part documentary, which will premiere on PBS and affiliate stations … Read more

“HENRY DAVID THOREAU”, a three-hour documentary, will premiere on PBS and affiliate stations on March 30, 2026 (episodes 1 and 2), and March 31, 2026 (episode 3). Directed by Chris and Erik Ewers of Ewers Brothers Productions, and executive produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley, the film features narration by George Clooney, and the voices of Jeff Goldblum as Thoreau, Ted Danson as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Meryl Streep as several contemporaries of Thoreau, and Tate Donovan as Ellery Channing.

The Walden Woods Project is honored to have assisted in the development of this film, through the pivotal role of executive production by our Founder and Chairman of the Board, Don Henley. We are anticipating a strong and favorable public reaction to this inspirational documentary that reveals to a national audience, for the first time, the complex and enduring legacy of Thoreau that made him such an influential figure in American history.

Henry David Thoreau is often called the patron saint of the environmental movement, the father of nonviolent resistance, and the archetype for living a meaningful life. Long reduced to myth as a solitary hermit, Thoreau is reexamined in this new documentary as a complex, social, and searching thinker–one wrestling with many of the same questions we face today.

In this first nationally broadcast biography on Thoreau’s life and legacy, we walk beside Henry as he offers his thinking on timeless challenges. You are encouraged to watch the film from two perspectives: First, to answer the question, “Who was Henry David Thoreau?” Which of his themes evoke the deepest connection to you? Then, to answer a second question, “Who am I?” What does Thoreau have to say to me about my greatest life issues?

Thoreau’s masterpieces, Walden and Civil Disobedience, have inspired generations–from Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, jr. to Rachel Carson and Greta Thunberg–all of whom saw in his words a call to conscience, courage, and action. This film explores his enduring ideas about how to live a life of meaning and fulfillment, how to resist injustice, and how our obligations to ourselves and to one another are inseparable from our responsibilities to the natural world–what Thoreau called “wildness.”

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