Coalmining History & Culture



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AF6031 Clinchco: Story of a Mining Town

Clinchco: Story of a Mining Town

Directed by: Susie Baker 1982 Running Time: 30:00 B/W This series of interviews and photographs (many from family albums), chronicles the boom and bust of a bi-racial coal camp in the hills of...
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AF6002 Coal Miner: Frank Jackson

Coal Miner: Frank Jackson

Directed by: Ben Zickafoose 1971 Running Time: 12:00 B/W Frank Jackson went into the coal mines of southwestern Virginia when he was 15 years old. This early Appalshop film juxtaposes Jackson’s...
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AF6032 Coalmining Women

Coalmining Women

Directed by: Elizabeth Barret 1982 Running Time: 40:00 Color Interviewed at home and on the job, women coal miners tell of the conditions that led them to seek employment in this traditionally...
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AF6081 Fightin' for a Breath

Fightin' for a Breath

Directed by: Stephanie Wagner Whetstone 1995 Running Time: 27:40 Color Pneumoconiosis, commonly know as black lung, is a debilitating, incurable, and often fatal lung disease caused by excessive...
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AF6082 Justice in the Coalfields

Justice in the Coalfields

Directed by: Anne Lewis 1995 Running Time: 57:00 Color Justice in the Coalfields demonstrates how current labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of...
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AF6051 Long Journey Home

Long Journey Home

Directed by: Elizabeth Barret 1987 Running Time: 58:00 Color Long Journey Home explores the ethnic diversity of the Appalachian region, the economic forces causing people to migrate into and out of...
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AF6048 Mine War on Blackberry Creek

Mine War on Blackberry Creek

In promotion of the DVD reissue of Mine War on Blackberry Creek, Appalshop is offering a web stream of the complete film. Mine War on Blackberry Creek is now available on DVD. Directed by: Anne Lewis...
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AF6071 Roving Pickets

Roving Pickets

Directed by: Anne Lewis 1991 Running Time: 28:00 Color The decade of the 1950s was a period of massive change in the coal industry. Small coal operators were unable to keep up with the mechanization...
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AF6103 The Electricity Fairy

The Electricity Fairy

“The fight over the power plant in Wise County represents a larger struggle to define progress and development in American society as a whole.”-Dr. Ron Eller Coal produces half of America’s...
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AF6005 UMWA 1970: A House Divided

UMWA 1970: A House Divided

Directed by: Ben Zickafoose and Dan Mohn 1971 Running Time: 14:00 B/W In 1970, W.A. (Tony) Boyle was president of the United Mine Workers of America, under indictment for misuse of union funds, and...
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