The People vs. Agent Orange

For Veterans: The Screening Room and The War Legacies Project would like to extend a $4 discount on the price of your ticket. To receive the discount code, email: shammond@warlegacies.org

(France, USA / 2020 / Directed by Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna)

The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, and playgrounds. It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers. After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end its use and hold its manufacturers accountable.

In France, Tran To Ngo is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides. As it follows their stories, the film captures a massive industrial cover-up. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs... A compelling and powerful piece of investigative reporting, The People vs. Agent Orange is “everything a great environmental documentary should be” (Eugene Environmental Film Festival).

Unrated / 1 hr 27 mins.