Bhopal - The Search for Justice
Numéro de catalogue: WPP002
Producteur: White Pine Pictures
Producteurs: Tracey, Linda Lee
Réalisateurs: Raymont, Peter
Agences de production: The National Film Board of Canada
Sujet: Documentaire, Droit criminel, Études de l'environnement, Études mondiales canadiennes, Histoire mondiale, Problèmes mondiaux, Santé et Médecine, Science, Sciences sociales
Langue: Anglais
Niveau scolaire: 9 - 12, Post-secondaire, Adulte
Pays d'origine: Canada
Année du droit d’auteur: 2005
Durée: 52:02
On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl isocyanate gas that killed fifteen thousand people. Hundreds of thousands more were permanently maimed. Bhopal remains the world’s worst chemical industry disaster.
Twenty years later, the survivors and their families were being re-victimized by the deliberate thwarting of scientific and medical studies concerning the disaster.
Beautiful Bhopal, once known as the “City of Mosques” is a sad, disgraceful testament to the absence of environmental and human justice. Exploring charges of corruption, Bhopal: The Search for Justice follows Raajkumar Keswani, the local journalist whose prediction of disaster proved prophetic. Set against a rich visual tapestry, Keswani travels through the Indian bastiis where the poorest victims live, and to the offices of frustrated doctors and scientists. Finally he makes his first trip to North America in search of answers.
“Certainly one of the most important documentaries of the TV season, Bhopal is also one of the scariest….It’s a haunting story, one that has yet to reach an ending.” - The Toronto Star
