New documentary spotlights UK Right to Roam movement
- Text by Isaac Muk
- Photography by Our Land Documentary (courtesy of)
OUR LAND — Directed by Orban Wallace, it asks questions about the meaning of land ownership, environmental protection and access to nature.
A new documentary, OUR LAND, focuses the lens on a UK campaign to open up access to the nation’s countryside.
Directed by Orban Wallace, it spotlights activists including Nadia Sheikh of the Right to Roam Campaign, as well as authors Nick Hayes, who wrote bestseller The Book of Trespass, and Wainwright Prizewinning author Guy Shrubsole, who wrote Who Owns England? and The Lie of the Land.
As the film’s trailer notes, half of England’s land is owned by just 1% of the population. Private land ownership and trespass laws mean that 92% of land and 97% of England’s rivers are not legally accessible to the general public. Questions are raised throughout the documentary about what it means to own land and property, while also interrogating environmental concerns that are often raised as arguments in favour of keeping areas closed off.
On top of campaigners, it also features interviews with landowners from Cornwall to Scotland, while also exploring mass trespass campaign tactics and barriers that people from BPOC backgrounds in the UK face with accessing the countryside.
OUR LAND will be released in cinemas on May 8, 2026, with a series of preview screenings across the UK in March and April.
Watch the trailer below.
Isaac Muk is Huck’s digital editor. Follow him on Bluesky.
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