Dark Circle
NEWS: CLASSIC FILM REVIVAL!
HD Re-Master Now Streaming on Apple TV and iTunes!
Distributed by NYC's First Run Features, the
newly restored version can also be streamed
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Dark Circle was released in 1982, but is still relevant:
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and
a national Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in News & Documentary, Dark Circle follows the trail of plutonium from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility in Colorado, to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Plutonium, the most toxic substance in the world, links these locations and the people whose lives are irrevocably changed by it. 83 minutes, 16mm color, first released: 1983; revised: 1991; re-mastered at Fotokem in HD in 2018 with assistance from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; now distributed by First Run Features. For a BluRay please email films@pelicanmedia.org.
Produced and Directed by Judy Irving, Christopher Beaver, and Ruth Landy
National Emmy Award; Shortlist, Academy Award; Grand Prize, Non-Fiction, Sundance Film Festival
"Four stars ...completely riveting." —Roger Ebert
"You owe it to yourself to see this chilling documentary. A much needed warning sign
on a very dangerous road. Rated: A." —People Magazine
"Recommended" —Science Books and Films
"This is a great film. I saw it years ago on television and was very moved by it. Years later, I saw
'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,' by the same director (Judy Irving). Another excellent film.
It's a classic. Informative yet emotionally wrenching." —From a five-star Amazon review