This documentary explores the connections between nuclear weapons production, nuclear power, and their human and environmental consequences. Through archival footage and interviews with residents living near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado—as well as survivors of atomic bombing and nuclear testing—Dark Circle traces the development of the atomic age and its lasting impact on communities exposed to radioactive contamination.
Direction
Raw 16mm footage that refuses to let you look away.
Editing
Juxtaposing government propaganda against dying ranchers.
Director
Judy Irving
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned from PBS for being 'too inflammatory,' it took 38 years to stream. The FBI literally raided Rocky Flats during filming.
Director Judy Irving went on to make The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill—same obsessive eye, wildly different subject.
US
