Somba Ke: The Money Place

Documentary filmmakers Linda Henningson, Petr Cizek and David Henningson reveal the neglected story of the remote Canadian region that supplied the Manhattan Project with uranium for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs, and its dark and disturbing legacy. Today, as major powers search for energy alternatives and nuclear power wins new converts, the area south of the Arctic Circle -- known locally to the native peoples as Somba Ke, which translates as "the money place" -- has become the epicenter of the massive uranium exploration boom.