Atomic Homefront

The documentary takes up the past of the city of St. Louis. Uranium was processed in that Missouri city. The work was done for the atomic bomb program. Radioactive waste was left behind. The waste was dumped illegally. The dumping grounds were neighbourhoods in the north of the county. The people living there did not know about it for years. Illnesses began to be talked about later. Mothers came together and started asking questions. The documentary follows these women. They want answers from public bodies. According to the film there was negligence by government and by companies. That charge is the film’s own. The account plays out in neighbourhood meetings. Dawn Chapman and Kay Drey appear in the one hundred minute documentary. It is an American production Rebecca Cammisa finished in 2017.