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Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming 144 lives, many of them children.
Direction
Restrained storytelling lets survivors' voices destroy you instead.
Production
Haunting archival footage that feels illegally intimate.
Director
Jonathan Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes