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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal

20241h 54m

In the late 1970s, families in Love Canal, a working-class neighbourhood of Niagara Falls, discovered that their homes and school had been built on a leaking chemical dump. This American Experience film follows how the residents organised once the cost to their health became impossible to ignore.

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