Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Name: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-07-12
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Michelle Landis Dauber, Judith Helfand, John W. Heltzel, Colleen Scott

7.5/ 10 · 0K votes

2019-07-12

1h 19m

Released

Documentary

Storyline

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).

Director

Judith Helfand

Book

Eric Klinenberg

Keywords

chicago, illinois natural disaster class discrimination heatwave racial discrimination structural discrimination

Production