Dark Circle 40th Anniversary

A personal film about a political issue, Dark Circle follows the invisible trail of plutonium, profiling ordinary citizens affected by the nuclear industry and revealing the inextricable links between nuclear weapons and power. Shot at the Rocky Flats plutonium factory, infamous for contaminating the area near Denver Colorado, and at California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, built on active earthquake faults, the film also includes the first documentary portraits of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb survivors shot by Americans. These stories, notably absent from Oppenheimer, provide crucial information still so painful it is rarely faced. Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when the film was first released, Dark Circle raises issues that have become today’s front-page headlines.

 Academy shortlisted for Best Documentary and a National Emmy winner, Dark Circle is no less potent today than it was 40 years ago. Newly restored by the Academy Film Archive and Pelican Media, this presentation is the World Premiere of the Academy restored 2K version.