In Our Water (1982)

At this point I’ve seen a number of narrative films based on corporations contaminating water supplies that the details from this film are not all that surprising. A family in South Brunswick, New Jersey discovers that the water coming from their well, and that of their neighbors, has been contaminated by a local landfill. This documents the father becomes an activist and fights to get local, state, and federal governments to acknowledge the problem. It’s all very depressing as it’s a real life story that occurred before those other films and just establishes that these problems keep happening and environmental protections are so easy to reverse or ignore.

Oscar Nomination: Best Documentary, Features