Category Archives: Full Length Films

Poison in the Rockies (1990)

Poison in the Rockies details how thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado contaminate drinking water by leaching heavy metals into rivers and streams, a problem compounded by acid rain and snow. Broadcast four times on NOVA.

Downwind/Downstream (1987)

Downwind/Downstream documents serious threats to water quality, subalpine ecosystems and public health in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains due to mining, acid rain and urbanization. We updated this film for PBS’s NOVA and it became Poison in the Rockies.