Independent Lens Season 21 Episode 9 - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Airdate: 2020-Feb-03

Episode summary:

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?

About Independent Lens series:

Independent Lens is an anthology of independent documentary films.