En fortælling om to drenge. Den ene stor og dum, den anden lille og kvik. De lever hver for sig i hverdagens helvede. Men de smelter sammen og forvandler sig til en ridder, der modigt kæmper for retfærdighed og venskab.
Parkersburg ligger i et smukt bakket landskab i West Virginia ved siden af den store kemiske virksomhed, DuPont, der producerer teflon. Da en landmands køer blev syge og døde, blev DuPonts giftige teflonkemikalie, C8, opdaget. Kort efter fik en skolelærer brev om, at der var C8 i hans drikkevand, men at det ikke var farligt. Så rullede skandalen. Det viste sig, at DuPont, mod bedre vidende, i årevis havde pumpet det giftige kemikalie ud i luften og i drikkevandsboringer. Og ikke bare her, men over hele USA.
A shocking political expose, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government.
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's world.
Why is the price of a banana from Central America only a third of that of an apple from Michigan? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US, and uncovering the violence that has enabled the banana industry for more than a century.
Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.