The Biggest Little Farm

2018

Action / Documentary / Family

23
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 95% · 100 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 95% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 9733 9.7K

farm california social documentary farming sustainability nature documentary

Plot summary

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.

Director

John Chester Photo
John Chester

Top cast

Rosie Photo
Rosie as Self, livestock guardian dog
Joshua Nelson Photo
Joshua Nelson as Self
Emma Photo
Emma as Self, formerly known as Ugly Betty the Pig
Caya Photo
Caya as Self, livestock guardian dog
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
828 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 10
1.45 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 37

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thedarkhorizon 8 / 10

Most emotional and well crafted documentary I've seen in some months!

This is mastery. We feel joy and fear with the owners and get to experience what they experience. We see the blooming power of nature and threatening danger of nature. We feel with the animals and we see the wonders arise we needed to see... to understand again how important it is to preserve and cherish nature.For me, this is mastery of storytelling. This not a dictation of "you need to learn this" but an EXPERIENCE. The well crafted B roll inserts tell their own story, there are peaks and lows in the tension, a fast pace - like a motion picture with a script... because I think the editors had one before cutting these tons of material into this film. This is a well crafted story, well shot images and INTENSE content to be told. This is how I want to see ALL documentaries ever made look like... like the stories that most grab us, influence us, change us: with heros and villains and villains becoming even friends (like the "pest"s they encountered and could incorporate into their farm!). The sound design is a major part of this - and the animal sequences, cut together well crafted like Disney's "Beautiful desert" documentary, a milestone back then. This documentary changed a part of me - forever.
Reviewed by imseeg 9 / 10

Feel good and inspirational. Wonderful real life example of how to take care of the soil we all depend on...

This story is feel good and inspirational. It's an eyeopener to anyone who doubts that nature itself cant provide us with all it's richness by itself. IT CAN !This movie is such a wonderfully, pleasant way to watch a real life example of how an American couple (living in the city) managed to start and run a desolate, abondonded farm succesfully WITHOUT any use of pesticides. The many intelligent ways in which this couple treated their farm with care are simply to die for.Dog and animal lovers (in general) will surely LOVe this movie as well, because animals ( of every kind ) are such an important part of a thriving nature and watching those many animals help nature thrive is wonderful and often even quite miraculously witty.Such a terrific feel good film about all the wonders of "simply" farming the way nature has intended to... Recommended for all ages, family and friends!
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