Bidder 70

A cautionary yet inspirational tale of civil disobedience, Bidder 70 offers a fascinating look at the clash between activism and modern politics by detailing the grueling legal struggle endured by Tim DeChristopher, who spent two years in prison for bidding $1.7 million for 22 acres of land in Utah at a controversial Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction, though he had no intentions of paying. A University of Utah economics student at the time, DeChristopher put his future on the line to block plans by gas-industry power players to drill on the land, signaling the beginning of a five-year legal battle that encouraged a national dialogue on the topic of environmental preservation., In this eye-opening documentary, college student and environmental activist Tim DeChristopher is sent to prison for disrupting a controversial federal action that was intended to give the energy and mining industries acres of land in Utah., College student and environmental activist Tim DeChristopher is sent to prison for disrupting a controversial federal action that was intended to give the energy and mining industries acres of land in Utah.