The People vs. Agent Orange

The People vs. Agent Orange

We have the right to protect ourselves from being poisoned.

2020 · 86 min · ★ 8.8 · Documentary

Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination exposing a massive cover-up.

Directed by Alan Adelson

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