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Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of it's heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. RICHLAND offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking it's identity and future on it's nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. - Moving between archival past and observational present, and across encounters with nuclear workers, community members, archeologists, local tribes, and a Japanese granddaughter of atomic bomb survivors, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time. - RICHALND is presented with it's original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 with English Dolby Digital 5.1 on DVD. An original Trailer is also included on the disc. Total Run Time: 93 minutes Rating: NR Screen Format: Widescreen 1.85:1