
Released
IMDb
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).
Keywords
chicago, illinois
natural disaster
class discrimination
heatwave
racial discrimination
structural discrimination
Casts
Michelle Landis Dauber
Herself
Judith Helfand
Herself
John W. Heltzel
Himself
Colleen Scott
Herself
Crews

Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producer
Barbara Dobkin
Executive Producer

Abigail Disney
Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer
Lois Vossen
Executive Producer

Julie Parker Benello
Executive Producer
Eric Klinenberg
Book
Judith Helfand
Director
Tod Lending
Cinematography
David E. Simpson
Editor
Daniel Nissenbaum
Music
Fenell Doremus
Producer
Sandra Itkoff
Executive Producer
Justine Nagan
Executive Producer
Gordon Quinn
Executive Producer