Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine talk with Mike about Teenage Wasteland, their documentary premiering on Netflix September 4th. The film resurrects five hundred hours of decaying VHS tape shot between 1991 and 1997 by English teacher Fred Isseks and his Middletown, New York, students as they investigated a toxic dump — and stumbled into a conspiracy involving organized crime and cover-ups reaching the state government.Moss and McBaine, the Boys Sta…
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Thirty years after the filmed survey of his high school students, Professor Fred Isseks returns to the forefront with Teenage Wasteland on Netflix. Behind this success, a discreet life and an intact civic commitment are still intriguing.