Atomic City
Director Micha Patault
Countries France
Duration 16 min
Synopsis
Atomic City is an interactive documentary which forms part of the collection of 24 webdocumentaries called Portraits of a New World, co-produced by narrative and FR Televisions. The documentary paints a portrait of Richland. A town of 45,000 inhabitants in the state of Washington, known as the place where the nuclear bomb which killed over 40,000 people in Nagasaki, JP (August 1945) was manufactured. ‘Atomic Bomb’ pulls back a curtain of secrecy on a town which has built its entire identity around the nuclear power, revealing a pride which stems from the belief that their bomb ended World War Two and bought peace. Controversially, even the local football team coins the bomb as its slogan to this very day. However, underlying this pride is the environmental and health issues which liken Richland to an American Chernobyl, causing some resident to question the town’s identity and the price they have paid to obtain it.
Atomic City is an interactive documentary which forms part of the collection of 24 webdocumentaries called Portraits of a New World, co-produced by narrative and FR Televisions. The documentary paints a portrait of Richland. A town of 45,000 inhabitants in the state of Washington, known as the place where the nuclear bomb which killed over 40,000 people in Nagasaki, JP (August 1945) was manufactured. ‘Atomic Bomb’ pulls back a curtain of secrecy on a town which has built its entire identity around the nuclear power, revealing a pride which stems from the belief that their bomb ended World War Two and bought peace. Controversially, even the local football team coins the bomb as its slogan to this very day. However, underlying this pride is the environmental and health issues which liken Richland to an American Chernobyl, causing some resident to question the town’s identity and the price they have paid to obtain it.