Current Events > 'Rat Film' documentary about Baltimore's rodent fight to air on PBS

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https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bs-fe-rat-film-20180226-story.html

Rat Film, a documentary that takes the decades-long fight waged against Baltimores rat population and uses it as a lens through which to look at how the city has addressed myriad social issues over the decades, airs tonight on PBS.

The hour-long documentary from Baltimore filmmaker Theo Anthony, a crowd favorite at last Mays 19th Maryland Film Festival, airs at 10 p.m. on Maryland Public Television as the latest episode of PBSs Independent Lens series. It repeats at 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

A longer version of Anthonys film played festival, as well as at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway in September. In chronicling Baltimores decades-long battle against its unwelcome rodent population, Anthony details some disturbing parallels with the ways city leaders have tried to deal with various urban situations.

For more about the film, read this Baltimore Sun article from September.
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