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Summary
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+29)
Critics 100Audiences 71GoodWatch 87
Tomatometer100%
IMDb7.1
Running time
1 h 19 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −17 min on the typical 96
typical 9679Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries, rent or buy in 40 more
Released
2019
July 12, 2019
7 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Judith Helfand Director
Writing · 1
- Eric Klinenberg Book
Production · 12
- Abigail Disney Executive Producer
- Geralyn White Dreyfous Executive Producer
- Gordon Quinn Executive Producer
- Julie Parker Benello Executive Producer
- Barbara Dobkin Executive Producer
- Sally Jo Fifer Executive Producer
Editing · 1
- David E. Simpson Editor
Sound · 1
- Daniel Nissenbaum Music
Other crew · 1
- Tod Lending Cinematography
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