Buffy Sainte-Mie narrates a radioactive reckoning that'll glow in your conscience long after.
Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a substantially increased risk of getting cancer. Most mining occurs on Indigenous People's land, violating their traditional economic and spiritual lives. Given our limited knowledge of the risks associated with uranium mining, why continue?
Direction
Isacsson builds dread through methodical, damning evidence.
Writing
Sainte-Marie's narration cuts like a blade through bureaucratic lies.
Director
Magnus Isacsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the final years of the Cold War, Uranium arrived when nuclear anxiety was shifting from weapons to waste—and Indigenous activists were increasingly centering environmental fights in sovereignty struggles.
Magnus Isacsson spent years embedded with mining communities; this was his breakthrough before becoming one of Canada's most committed social documentary voices.
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