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Children of the Valley
On Friday October 21 1966, life changed forever in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan. A mountain of coal waste collapsed, burying a junior school in the valley below. 144 people died in the disaster. 116 of them were children. It was one of the world's first televised disasters – private grief was on public view. In New York, photojournalist Rapoport switched on his TV. Within days he was on his way to Aberfan to record what it was like to live in a town without children. But as Rapoport would discover, some children had survived. Now 40 years on, the surviving children are ready to tell their stories and Rapoport is returning to photograph them as they are today.
United Kingdom - 2006 - 48 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
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