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FRONTLINE Special Report; Global Dumping Ground

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Series
FRONTLINE Special Report
Program
Global Dumping Ground
Program Number

900B

Series Description

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.

Program Description

This special report with Bill Moyers investigates America's shadowy new industry, the international export of toxic waste, revealing how shipping deadly wastes to third world countries has become an enormous business in the US. Report follows the trail of two brothers, Charles and Jack Colbert of Mount Vernon, NY, the most successful and notorious toxic waste exporters in the US. NOTE: Shared 900 program number with Arming Of Iraq.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Documentary
Citation
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