Containment

What do we do with the hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge left over from the Cold War, in order to protect future generations from one of the deadliest, longest-lasting substances known to man? That's the question directors Peter Galison and Robb Moss set out to answer in this important documentary, with unsettling results. Containment examines how governments around the globe are attempting to imagine a future 10,000 years from now in an effort to store nuclear waste properly. As it turns out, not one has developed an effective solution to span millennia. In the midst of filming in and around waste sites in New Mexico and South Carolina, the Fukushima meltdown occurred, and the filmmakers got a close and personal look at how communities can be destroyed by radioactive waste. Their footage is augmented by graphic novel-style animated sequences that illustrate the potential danger for generations hence. (Denver International Film Festival)