Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Duration: 79 min
Release date: 2019-07-12
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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).

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