Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Plot Summary

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

7.5 /10

2019

US

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chicago, illinois

natural disaster

class discrimination

heatwave

racial discrimination

structural discrimination