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title: "What to Watch: The Return of Navajo Boy"
slug: what-to-watch-the-return-of-navajo-boy
date: 2017-02-03
author: "Guest User"
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section: news-notes
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# What to Watch: The Return of Navajo Boy

Feb 3

Written By [Guest User](/news-notes?author=6839f4dcc52c4707a9ee7c66)

As part of Vision Maker Media's "40 years, 40 films, 40 weeks" program, one archived PBS film will be re-released each week.

Watch them while they are available!

This week's featured film is: [The Return of Navajo Boy](http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-5q4rj49c9n)

[![](images/97bfe311-image-asset.jpeg)](http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-5q4rj49c9n)

The Return of Navajo Boy, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies that are responsible for uranium contamination.

[what to watch](/news-notes/tag/what+to+watch)

[Guest User](/news-notes?author=6839f4dcc52c4707a9ee7c66)