Devil's Dust (2012)

Genre

drama television series

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

M

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A two-part docu-drama recounting the story of Bernie Banton and the Australian workers who suffered from asbestos-related diseases. It shows how the company James Hardie continued using asbestos despite known health risks with weak government oversight.

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What happens

Devil's Dust is a two-part Australian television docu-drama mini-series on the ABC which first screened in 2012. Based on journalist Matt Peacock's 2009 book Killer Company, Devil's Dust was researched and developed by producer Stephen Corvini for over two years prior to the series' production. Through the factual case of Bernie Banton, it recounts the tragedy of many Australian workers and their families afflicted with asbestosis and mesothelioma in the twentieth-century asbestos mining and processing industries. Though the extreme health risks of exposure to asbestos dust had been documented for many years, manufacturer James Hardie persisted in large-scale use of the material, aided by inadequate regulation by state health agencies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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