Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster — Watchpile | Watchpile

Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

2007· 1h 28m

Documentary

Directed by Sarah Aspinall

Reviews

Overview

Film revealing how political ambition fuelled the Windscale fire of 1957 and then dictated that the heroes of Windscale be made the scapegoats.

Cast

Caroline Catz

Caroline Catz

Self - Narrator (voice)

Other films by Sarah Aspinall

The Coen Brothers Story

The Coen Brothers Story

2025

The Adventures of Anais Nin

The Adventures of Anais Nin

2015

Philip Roth Unleashed

Philip Roth Unleashed

2014

Dickens' Secret Lover

Dickens' Secret Lover

2008

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

Viewers Also Enjoyed

Test of a clean hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons

Test of a clean hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons

The Crowds of Chernobyl

The Crowds of Chernobyl

We Are the Guinea Pigs

We Are the Guinea Pigs

Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace

Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace

Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

Dounreay: The Atomic Dream

Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History

Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History

I'm So Sorry

I'm So Sorry

Ten Seconds that Shook the World

Ten Seconds that Shook the World

Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter

Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter

Iran, Israel and the Bomb

Iran, Israel and the Bomb

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents

In Time's Shadow

In Time's Shadow

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

2001

The Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers

2000

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

1999