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Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
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Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

2019-04-06 · 76 min · ★ 5.0

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As a centuries-old black community, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a plant's expansion refuses to give up.

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Alexander John Glustrom
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Fire River Films
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