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Databases: Films Database
Shipbreakers
- Topics: Environmental and occupational health; India
- Brief Summary: Profiles the ship dismantling industry in Alang, India, where one worker dies per day from toxins and injuries. Considers the global political-economy that results in toxic waste in the form of retired ships being shifted from the developed to the developing world.
- Date of Release: 2004
- Length: 73 min
- Where was it produced/filmed & in what language: Filmed in India; in English; some subtitled
- Where to get it: National Film Board of Canada (www.nfb.ca)
