"To Use a Mountain is easily one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. It is haunting, visually arresting, and deeply informative— offering a layered portrait of resistance in the face of environmental injustice... Feels more immediate and emotionally resonant than many traditional talking-heads documentaries."
— Ciara Gordon, Salt & Citrus Zine
During the Reagan administration, six communities across the Southern and Western United States were marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate — to be the final burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. While most were successful in blocking proposed waste storage projects relatively early on, those on Western Shoshone lands in Yucca Mountain, NV were forced into a decades-long conflict to halt the construction of a local waste storage facility.
To Use a Mountainvisits all six of the candidate towns, and speaks with those who live there in order to reveal the common conditions that made the government view them as ideal sites for generations of environmental contamination.
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