A Place in the Land

{{short description|1998 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = A Place in the Land

| image = A Place in the Land poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Charles Guggenheim

| producer = {{unbulleted list|Judith Hallet (field producer)|Grace Guggenheim (executive producer)}}

| writer = Charles Guggenheim (concept)

| narrator = Peter Coyote

| music = Michael Bacon

| cinematography = Erich Roland

| editing = {{unbulleted list|Catherine Shields|Greg Henry}}

| production_companies = The Woodstock Foundation

| distributor = Billings Farm & Museum

| released = {{film date|1998}}

| runtime = 32 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

A Place in the Land is a 1998 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim with field director Judith Dwan Hallet. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300851/Place-in-the-Land/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016234405/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300851/Place-in-the-Land/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |title=NY Times: A Place in the Land |access-date=December 6, 2008}}

A Place in the Land considers the history of conservation stewardship in America as reflected in the property of Billings Farm, an operating dairy farm in Woodstock, Vermont first established in 1871, and the {{convert|555|acre|km2|adj=on}} Mount Tom, as well as through the work of George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and Laurance Rockefeller, who were successive residents of the estate. The documentary is shown daily at the visitor center for the Billings Farm & Museum and the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. The National Park Service and the American Memory project of the Library of Congress served as advisers to the Woodstock Foundation in the production of the film.