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A highly acclaimed one-hour independent documentary chronicling the historic 9-year fight to stop plans to build a huge jetport that threatened to destroy a rural area of New Jersey in the 1960s. Narrated by Blythe Danner.
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Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport (2017)
62 min
A new one-hour documentary about the events, people and politics behind the struggle to preserve a rural area of New Jersey between 1959 and 1968. Chronicles the 9-year fight to stop plans to build a huge jetport that threatened towns, wildlife and the aquifer for miles around.