Lac-Mégantic: This Is Not an Accident (2023)

Original title

Lac-Mégantic - Ceci n'est pas un accident

Directed by

Philippe Falardeau

Genre

documentary television program

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series looks at the 2013 Lac-Megantic train disaster in Quebec. It examines the failures by companies and regulators that led to the crash. Then it covers how little has been done since then to prevent a similar tragedy.

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What happens

Lac-Mégantic: This Is Not an Accident (French: Lac-Mégantic : ceci n’est pas un accident) is a Canadian documentary television series, directed by Philippe Falardeau and released in 2023. The series centres on the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013, profiling both the bureaucratic failures that allowed the disaster to happen and the regulatory inaction that has hampered efforts to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again. The series premiered at the 2023 Canneseries festival, and was screened at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, in advance of its television premiere on May 2, 2023, on Vidéotron's Vrai streaming platform for documentaries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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