Award-winning documentary filmmaker Carol Fleisher, right, works with Fort Lewis College students on Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies as they search for photos and documents related to Durango’s history with uranium processing. The students are in Assistant Professor Stacey Sotosky’s Digital Video Production class, and they are making a documentary about the history of uranium in Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Evan Wick, a Fort Lewis College student in Stacy Sotosky’s Digital Video Production class, listens on Thursday to Nik Kendziorski, archives manager at the Center of Southwest Studies, as he instructs them on how to search the center’s archives. The class is making a documentary about Durango’s history of uranium mining. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Nik Kendziorski, archives manager at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, instructs students on Thursday in Assistant Professor Stacy Sotosky’s Digital Video Production class on how to search the center’s archives as part of the research they are doing for a documentary about uranium mining around Durango. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Fort Lewis College students in Stacey Sotosky’s digital video class look for photos and documents related to Durango’s history of uranium on Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies. The class is working on a documentary of Durango’s history of uranium. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Fort Lewis College Assistant Professor Stacy Sotosky, top, helps students Davis Deussen, left, and Catie Welch, who are in her Digital Video Production class, go through archives looking for photos and documents at the Center of Southwest Studies. The class is making a documentary about Durango’s history of uranium mining. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Fort Lewis College students from left, Ashley Brankovic, Davis Deussen, Catie Welch and Brittney Dougi, go through Center of Southwest Studies archives for photos and documents related to Durango’s history of uranium as Assistant Professor Stacey Sotosky, right, and award-winning filmmaker Carol Fleisher, assist them. Sotosky’s Digital Video Class is making a documentary on Durango’s history of uranium that will be screened on Oct. 17. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Fort Lewis College Assistant Professor Stacy Sotosky helps students Davis Deussen, left, and Catie Welch, who are in her Digital Video Production class, go through archives in search of photos and documents at the Center of Southwest Studies. Sotosky’s class is making a documentary on Durango’s history of uranium that will be screened on Oct. 17. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Award-winning filmmaker Carol Fleisher, right, works with Fort Lewis College students in Assistant Professor Stacey Sotosky’s Digital Video Production class look for photos and documents about uranium. The class is working on a documentary about Durango’s history of uranium. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Fort Lewis College students in Stacey Sotosky’s Digital Video Production class look for photos and documents related to uranium mining at the Center of Southwest Studies. Sotosky’s class is making a documentary on Durango’s history of uranium that will be screened on Oct. 17. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald