The Big Chill • 2020 • episode "S1E2" Blue Sky Metropolis

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Explores how the Cold War and Pentagon dollars fund the explosive growth of modern Los Angeles, creating the gargantuan "military-industrial-complex".

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Blue Sky Metropolis • 2020 • 4 episodes •

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