| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Jane Alexander |
| Event |
Originally produced by Music Box Films in 1989. |
| Summary |
Offering rare archival footage and a deceptively upbeat atmosphere, this Oscar nominated film delves into the lives of a community gripped by the ultimate weapon of mass destruction - the hydrogen bomb. Pastoral Aiken, South Carolina is home to the Savannah River Plant, the epicenter of America's top-secret atomic bomb-making apparatus. Within this nuclear company town, directors Mark Mori and Susan Robinson blow open a cover-up of massive radioactive waste dumping carried out under the shroud of national security. Profiling a diverse cast of outspoken community members, from a physicist-turned-peace-activist, a politician who speechifies on the good jobs created by the plant, and a worker whose body courses with radioactive particles, BUILDING BOMBS artfully grapples with the profound realities of a world filled with nukes by listening closely to those who must live day-to-day in the shadow of the H-bomb. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Journalism.
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Health.
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Current events.
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Economic development.
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History, Modern.
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Computer science.
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Science.
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Environmental sciences.
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History.
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Americans.
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Physics.
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Ethnology.
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Sociology.
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Documentary films.
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Business.
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Foreign study.
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Digital communications.
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Social sciences.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Mori, Mark, film director.
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J. Robinson, Susan, film director.
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Alexander, Jane, actor.
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Music Box Films, distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
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| Music No. |
13416749 Kanopy |
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