In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The lives of half a million people soon hung in the balance, as human error and mechanical failure combined to create the worst nuclear accident in American history.

• DirectorMargaret Drain
• Release22 February 1999
• GenreDocumentary
• Duration1h
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  PBS American Experience, Steward/Gazit Productions