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The sacrament

a true story of survival
1980

Radiant girl

2008
In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.

Gasland

2010
Filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of a large reservoir of natural gas and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction so he documented his journey to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracking is actually safe, and unearthed a shocking discovery in the process.

Operation Napoleon

2011
Kristin must solve the riddle of Operation Napoleon to discover why the U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of a World War II German bomber from an Icelandic glacier, and, in addition to solving Operation Napoleon, she must find where her brother Elias has gone.

Emergency at Three Mile Island

2007
Presents photographs and first-person accounts of the March 28, 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, and profiles some of those who helped to contain the meltdown.

Prescription for disaster

1987
The full story of why the space shuttle Challenger blew up.

Chernobyl

the end of the nuclear dream
1987
Explains why the Chernobyl explosion happened; and why there has been secrecy and misinformation about the true nature of nuclear reactors.

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