Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.
If you want popular media that focuses on industrial catastrophes/poisoning of communities in the US, you might enjoy the movie Erin Brockavich. It doesn't involve EPA or Department of Energy like that, but it's a true story of a lawyer successfully suing Pacific Gas and Electric corporation for poisoning Hinckley, CA through wastewater contamination.
ive seen it, it is a good flick. also, more recently Dark Waters (2019) with Mark "White Buffalo" Ruffalo is a strong pop media legal thriller about DuPont gang fucking West Virginia (and ultimately the planet) with PFOA for decades after their in-house researchers showed it was extremely fucked up. but hey... teflon!
i'm an ecology nerd so i live for this type of joints.
i'll give it a watch sometime