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SHOT IN LOS ANGELES 6.21’ 7.21’

In Meltdown: Three Mile Island, Academy Award–nominated director Kief Davidson documents the near-catastrophe that took place in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979.

The limited series recreates what happened minute by minute at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant that day and in the aftermath. Had the meltdown not been averted, the residents of Middletown could have experienced the horrors seen at Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011.

Using archival footage and reenactments, Davidson peels back the layers of a compelling web that includes corrupt corporations, ill-prepared governments, a traumatized community who would take matters into their own hands and a whistleblower who risked everything.

“I believe the lessons of Meltdown resonate far beyond the events of 1979,” Davidson tells Tudum. “Even as we expose the complex web of corporate greed which nearly led to our radioactive ruin, we find the small acts of bravery that changed the course of history. We need to learn from the Three Mile Island disaster as we face the current climate and energy crisis.”