Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

0.0

2007

1h 28m

Documentary

Film revealing how political ambition fuelled the Windscale fire of 1957 and then dictated that the heroes of Windscale be made the scapegoats.

Key Crew

Director

Sarah Aspinall

Producers

Paul Dwyer

Cinematography

Tim Cragg

Cast (1)

Caroline Catz

Self - Narrator (voice)

Keywords

nuclear weaponsnuclear accident

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Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

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Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

Key Crew

Director

Producers

Cinematography

Cast (1)

Keywords

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