Protests to save Sheffield's healthy street trees turn into a nightmare, as a small group of brave suburbanites take on their council, the police and a multinational corporation.
The Felling is a David-and-Goliath story about how a small group of residents in one of Europe’s greenest cities battled to stop a powerful city council and a giant multinational corporation from chopping down thousands of healthy street trees as part of a massive £2.2 billion private contract to maintain the city's highways.
What started as a local protest soon attracted national and international support. As the stakes increased with threats of bankruptcy and imprisonment, ordinary citizens were forced to ask themselves the crucial question: how far am I prepared to go to save a tree?
This documentary is an extraordinary and shocking first-hand account of what happened on the tree-lined suburban streets of Sheffield. An epic tale of people power.
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