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Model	Item Name	Price
AF6087	Breaks of the Mountain Directed by: Tom Hansell 1999 Running Time: 28:00 Color Across America, communities are struggling with questions of development. From the urban sprawl of the Northeast, to the suburbs taking over...	$25.00
AF6020	Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man Directed by: Mimi Pickering 1975 Running Time: 40:00 B/W On February 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. A...	$25.00
AF6096	Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man & Buffalo Creek Revisited In December of 2005, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced his annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry, including the 1975 Appalshop film The...	$30.00
AF6036	Buffalo Creek Revisited Directed by: Mimi Pickering 1984 Running Time: 31:00 Color Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to...	$25.00
AF6065	Chemical Valley Directed by: Mimi Pickering and Anne Lewis 1991 Running Time: 58:00 Color On Dec. 3, 1984, the worst industrial accident in history occurred when a toxic gas known as MIC leaked from a Union Carbide...	$25.00
AF6092	Coal Bucket Outlaw Directed by: Tom Hansell 2002 Running Time: 26:40 Color The U.S. Department of Energy reports that coal produces over half of our nation’s electricity. Coal Bucket Outlaw is a digital documentary...	$25.00
AF6059	On Our Own Land Directed by: Anne Lewis 1988 Running Time: 29:00 Color In the Appalachian coalfields, broadform deeds were used, beginning around 1900, to sever the ownership of mineral rights from the ownership of...	$25.00
AF6076	Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME Directed by: Anne Lewis 1994 Running Time: 28:00 Color Beginning in the late 1800's, and continuing into the early decades of the 20th century, forests in the...	$25.00
AF6097	Sludge Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge pond in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug...	$25.00
AF6014	Strip Mining in Appalachia NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME Directed by: Gene DuBey 1973 Running Time: 25:00 B/W Strip Mining In Appalachia is an early Appalshop examination of the desecration of land and communities...	$25.00
AF6028	Strip Mining: Energy, Environment, and Economics Directed by: Frances Morton and Gene DuBey 1979 Running Time: 50:00 Color Strip mining accounts for over half of the coal produced in Appalachia as well as the region’s most conspicuous...	$25.00
AF6103	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...	$25.00
AF6088	To Save the Land and People Directed by: Anne Lewis 1999 Running Time: 58:40 Color Strip or “surface” mining – where coal is blasted and scraped from the mountain surface – increased dramatically in the Appalachian region in...	$25.00
AF6042	Yellow Creek, Kentucky Directed by: Anne Lewis 1984 Running Time: 29:00 Color Yellow Creek, Kentucky documents the efforts of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens to stop a commercial tannery from dumping toxic wastes into...