Company Town

Infuriating and, sadly, not at all surprising.
-- John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

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Company Town

Crossett, Arkansas is home to about 5,500 people, one Georgia-Pacific paper and chemical plant owned by billionaire brothers Charles Koch and David Koch, and a startling rate of cancer and illness. This groundbreaking investigative documentary follows local pastor David Bouie as he fights to save his community. It offers a rare look inside a small town ruled by a single company, where the government's environmental protections have been subverted and ignored, leaving its citizens to take on entrenched powers in a fight for justice.

Crossett is just one of hundreds of towns across America polluted by big business and failed by local, state and federal environmental protections. Company Town ultimately asks, what do you do when the company you work for and live next to is making you sick?
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary, Environment, Politics, Women and Film, Crime, Justice
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Natalie Kottke-Masocco, Erica Sardarian
FEATURED REVIEW
Louis Proyect, Counterpunch.org

'Company Town' made me so enraged at the Koch brothers that I went to the Lincoln Center website to track down the names of people on the board of directors to send a mass email denouncing them for taking money from the men who were responsible for a cancer epidemic in Crossett, Arkansas. After ...

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