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Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

Investigates toxic chemicals that have sparked an international health and environmental catastrophe, and examines a decades-long battle between some of the world's largest chemical companies and the contaminated communities fight...

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Katrina McGowan

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Ikandy Films,Screen Australia,Stan,Screen NSW,Shark Island Productions

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Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Trail Layer, Douglas and London

Self - Environmental Attorney, Taft Law Firm, Author, Exposure

Self - Actor & Environmental Activist

Self - Environmental Attorney, Levin Papantonio Rafferty

Self - Investigative Journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Senior Associate, Douglas and London

Self - Peggy's Uncle, Wreck Bay Community Elder

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Ashlee Williams

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Robert Williams

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Jean Carter McKenzie

Self - Former Community Doctor for Wreck Bay

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Michael Williams

Self - Senior Advisor, International Pollutants Elimination Network

Mariann Lloyd-Smith

Self - Class Action Lawyer, Shine Lawyers

Self - James' Mother, Wreck Bay Community Elder

Self - Barrister for Wreck Bay

William Edwards

Self - Wreck Bay Community Elder

Self - Judge, Federal Court of Australia

Self - Investigations Editor, Journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald

Self - Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald

Self - Joint Head of Class Actions, Shine Lawyers

Self - Attorney, Levin Papantonio Rafferty

Self - Former 3M Employee, Environmental Regulatory Affairs

Self - Former Toxicologist for 3M

Self

Self - 3M Corporate Toxicologist. Regulatory Services Department

Self - Toxicologist

Self - Former CEO of 3M

Self - Wreck Bay Community Member

Peggy Jean Carter McLeod

Self - Former Tartan High School Student

Self - Amara's Father

Michael Strande

Self - Litigant Against DuPont

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WOMAN: Do you solemnly swear the
testimony you're about to give - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

WOMAN: Do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about...

SONG: ♪ Man-made chemicals are - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

SONG: ♪ Man-made chemicals are

♪ Chemists move molecules around - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ Chemists move molecules around

♪ After we're dead and gone - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ After we're dead and gone

♪ We'll all be dead and gone - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ We'll all be dead and gone

♪ In the water... ♪ - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ In the water... ♪

MAN: If you wanted to
contaminate the planet, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MAN: If you wanted to contaminate the planet,

♪ Flowing deep in the water. ♪ - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ Flowing deep in the water. ♪

MAN: Our old people - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MAN: Our old people

And when we go to special places
like this, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And when we go to special places like this,

...to all this part here, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

...to all this part here,

It's all connected - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

It's all connected

(WAVES LAP) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And when you look across to the
distance, it's the mountains - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And when you look across to the distance, it's the moun...

It's actually a place
right on the ocean - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

It's actually a place right on the ocean

MATTHEW: Wreck Bay has always
been a fishing village - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MATTHEW: Wreck Bay has always been a fishing village

You know,
little ones that I'd get - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

You know, little ones that I'd get

So full of culture and heritage. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

So full of culture and heritage.

It was a child's playground in paradise - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

It was a child's playground in paradise

(UNEASY MUSIC BUILDS) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(UNEASY MUSIC BUILDS)

(HELICOPTER WHIRRS) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(HELICOPTER WHIRRS)

Into the right here,
we've got the training centre - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

Into the right here, we've got the training centre

But everything from there,
from their training centre, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

But everything from there, from their training centre,

...every time it rains,
everything runs down this hill - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

...every time it rains, everything runs down this hill

The two main, um, killers
in the community - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

The two main, um, killers in the community

I had a... um, cancerous cyst
in my pancreas. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I had a... um, cancerous cyst in my pancreas.

Pancreatic cancer is very brutal
and savage. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

Pancreatic cancer is very brutal and savage.

So a lot of alarm bells
was ringing. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

So a lot of alarm bells was ringing.

You know, it's a chemical
used for something... - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

You know, it's a chemical used for something...

And when you look at that, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And when you look at that,

If we can be taken
right back to those places - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

If we can be taken right back to those places

The whole process that
it's gone through to get here - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

The whole process that it's gone through to get here

MAN: I think once people
start to see this story, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MAN: I think once people start to see this story,

MAN 2: How do you,
in good conscience, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MAN 2: How do you, in good conscience,

And you let generation
after generation be exposed... - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And you let generation after generation be exposed...

I guess that's the goal
of our trial, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I guess that's the goal of our trial,

We're talking about
worldwide contamination - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

We're talking about worldwide contamination

(UNEASY MUSIC) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And, again,
it's just remarkable to me - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And, again, it's just remarkable to me

If you wanted to deliberately
contaminate the planet - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

If you wanted to deliberately contaminate the planet

(SINGS) ♪ Man-made chemicals are - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(SINGS) ♪ Man-made chemicals are

♪ Chemists move molecules around - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ Chemists move molecules around

The only difference is I have
a much more captive audience - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

The only difference is I have a much more captive audience

I started out
as a struggling musician - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I started out as a struggling musician

(SINGS) ♪ Rollin' down
ol' River Road... ♪ - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(SINGS) ♪ Rollin' down ol' River Road... ♪

We played some of the most
famous punk rock scenes - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

We played some of the most famous punk rock scenes

♪ Give me hope, give me strength - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ Give me hope, give me strength

♪ Holding on. ♪ - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

♪ Holding on. ♪

(SOBER PIANO MUSIC) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(SOBER PIANO MUSIC)

I think at that time it was
the third successful case - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I think at that time it was the third successful case

And then Rob Bilott,
um, reached out to me. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And then Rob Bilott, um, reached out to me.

His cases were gonna go to trial - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

His cases were gonna go to trial

I was working at a law firm - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I was working at a law firm

And I got a call in my office
one day - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And I got a call in my office one day

He was convinced - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

He was convinced

By the time he had
called me in 1998, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

By the time he had called me in 1998,

That call led to what became - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

That call led to what became

We tried three individual cases,
won them all - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

We tried three individual cases, won them all

ROB: It ended up
being on the cover - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

ROB: It ended up being on the cover

After that story came out, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

After that story came out,

REPORTER: 'Dark Waters' tells
the true story of Robert Bilott, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

REPORTER: 'Dark Waters' tells the true story of Ro...

The film, you know,
that we did together, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

The film, you know, that we did together,

I think it really showed people,
"Wait a minute, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

I think it really showed people, "Wait a minute,

This story... (SCOFFS) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

This story... (SCOFFS)

This was always the... thing - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

This was always the... thing

MAN: 3M were a large
multinational conglomerate - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

MAN: 3M were a large multinational conglomerate

And they're in
the business of selling - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And they're in the business of selling

It's a multibillion-dollar
company, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

It's a multibillion-dollar company,

ROB: PFAS is per- and
polyfluoroalkylated substances. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

ROB: PFAS is per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances.

It is a family of completely
man-made chemicals. - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

It is a family of completely man-made chemicals.

These are chemicals that
never existed on the planet - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

These are chemicals that never existed on the planet

The two chemicals that we... that
we've been talking about here - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

The two chemicals that we... that we've been talking ab...

That's PFOA - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

Both of these, really, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

Both of these, really,

PFOA was sold primarily
to DuPont - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

PFOA was sold primarily to DuPont

(OIL SIZZLES, CORN POPS) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(OIL SIZZLES, CORN POPS)

PFOS was very much
their secret sauce, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

PFOS was very much their secret sauce,

No-one outside of 3M - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

No-one outside of 3M

3M also started using PFOS, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

3M also started using PFOS,

...a type of firefighting foam - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

...a type of firefighting foam

This was created primarily
around the 1960s - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

This was created primarily around the 1960s

And over the last
several decades, - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And over the last several decades,

And this whole other story
started to become apparent - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And this whole other story started to become apparent

And are told,
"You spray it all out there," - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And are told, "You spray it all out there,"

(LIQUID BUBBLES) - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

(LIQUID BUBBLES)

And so the problem is
not only do these chemicals - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

And so the problem is not only do these chemicals

...they're incredibly toxic - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

...they're incredibly toxic

A lot of the information
that has come out over the years - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

A lot of the information that has come out over the years

There hasn't been as much
information available - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

There hasn't been as much information available

This is the company
that actually created these - Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

This is the company that actually created these

Revealed: How to Poison a Planet poster

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Investigates toxic chemicals that have sparked an international health and environmental catastrophe, and examines a decades-long battle between some of the world's largest chemical companies and the contaminated communities fight...

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Director: Katrina McGowan

Writer: N/A

Production: Ikandy Films,Screen Australia,Stan,Screen NSW,Shark Island Productions

Genre: documentary

Year: 2024

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Released: 28 Apr 2024

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