28:59Deadly Deception juxtaposes General Electric's rosy "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of its workers and neighbours whose lives have been devastated by the company's involvement in building nuclear bombs. It tells a powerful story of how activists can challenge corporations causing harm. Driven by personal testimony and painstaking research, the film exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. The tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organisation, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industry.
38:36On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, releasing 90 times the radioactivity of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sixteen years later, Chernobyl Heart travels to ground zero, following the devastating trail radiation leaves behind in hospitals, orphanages, mental asylums and evacuated villages. The film reveals those hardest hit by radiation, including thyroid cancer patients and children suffering from unfathomable congenital birth and heart defects, still decades later...
25:27Just along the fault lines of the Pacific Rim of Fire from Japan, lies Taiwan--another heavily industrialised, modern economy highly reliant on nuclear power. Ninety percent of the world's earthquakes occur along the Rim of Fire, so no wonder there are worries about a fourth nuclear plant being built there. The government of Taiwan is promising to hold a referendum on its future, but if the reactor doesn't go ahead the country's nuclear strategy is in question, along with the $9 billion already spent on the plant. And the state-owned power company, Taipower, would face bankruptcy, leaving no one to manage Taiwan's nuclear waste. The waste currently sits across the water on the tiny Orchid Island, quickly corroding and risking potential disaster for the native Tao inhabitants. As fears grow, can we learn from Fukushima before it's too late?
From the Cold War to COVID, While the Rest of Us Die is an exploration of the history of the United States government's doomsday plans, called the Continuity of Government (COG). The series explores various national security spending on hidden underground cities, a secret air force, and several layered structural plans to suspend various democratic systems in order to serve the interests of the elite class--all without the knowledge of the public. It's origins stretch back to the 1950s with the prospect of nuclear strikes during the Cold War, but have secretly and significantly expanded in the proceeding decades.