Radium City
Radium City
8.8
Industrial tragedy in 1920s Ottawa exposes radium poisoning of female workers who licked paintbrushes. Interviews with survivors detail their medical ordeals and struggle for justice amid bureaucracy and uncertainty over the death toll.
Razorbitz reviewedFebruary 22, 2025
A daunting tale of horror from a not-so bygone time documenting one of the numerous follies early 1900s America inflicted upon the working class and how those responsible never suffered a lick of karma. Radium City does a great job capturing the eras and illustrating the many layers of injustice at the root of the tale, and the ecological nightmare that still lingers, yet a hundred years on and the lessons taught by these events still haven't been learned.
Brutally tragic but shouldn't be missed.