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Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
(1988)

Summary of the movie
This movie was based on the true life of Diane Fossey. It begins when Diane wants to take the job for researching the gorillas. Diane gets the job and has to pick a guide, she also finds out that her American friend doesn't stay with her. Diane and her group look for weeks the find the gorillas and once she finds them an African Army takes her away. Diane goes back and people think that she is a witch. There are many poachers that are killing off the gorillas in Diane's group for their hands and heads. Diane gets angry and does all that she can including burring houses to get her point across. She also has a little romance with a camera man that comes to take pictures of the gorillas. Many months pass and there has been no poaching of her gorillas. One day when she has some visitors to watch the gorillas also some poachers kill off many gorillas and take a baby gorilla away. Diane pretty much goes crazy and she gets murdered by someone that is still unknown today and since her death she has made it so that the gorillas would be from then on protected.

Silkwood
(1983)

Summary of Movie
The movie Silkwood is about one woman trying to close down the radiation center that she works at. Karen lives with her boyfriend and friend. While at work Karen gets radiation on her three times. She gets contaminated. Karen gets moved to X-Rays and finds out they color in the mistakes. She tried to find evidence of this for a man in Washington DC. Most people turned against Karen. At the end the people have to strip her house and take everything out of it because it was contaminated by radiation. On her way home from a meeting with the people who want to shut down the plant, Karen gets into a car accident and dies. No one knows why. Then plant finally shut down a couple of years later.

Bitter Harvest
(1981)

Summary of Movie
This movie was about a dairy farmer who bought some new feed to increase the production of milk from the cows. Cows were getting sick and producing less milk. This mysterious disease started to effect the humans. The farmer got extremely worried because these cows were his life, so he did all he could to save them. At first no one would help him, but then he came upon a Doctor who agreed to help. Numerous tests were run and at first they thought it was "malnutrition." Later it ended up being the chemical PBB. This was causing the cows to have bald-spots of cows, pink-eye, defects in birth, and eventually death. Humans had some of the same symptoms including a rash. This disease was spreading everywhere. The only way in order to get rid of the chemical, all the infected cows had to be terminated.

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