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Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
Burning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack.The film focuses on the impacts of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians, where mountain ridges are scraped away by heavy machinery to access coal seams below, a process that is cheaper and faster than traditional mining methods but is damaging to the environment.
The incidents involved coal miners and union organizers on one side and coal firms and law enforcement officials on the other. [1] The Harlan County coal miners campaigned and fought to organize their workplaces and better their wages and working conditions. It was a nearly decade-long conflict, lasting from 1931 to 1939.
The film highlights statistics on mining including the fact that five hundred of Appalachia’s mountains have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining while being rebuilt by land reclamation projects and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of streams that only have water in them during hard rains moved to the sides of the valley fills.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's annual coal report, there were an average 65,971 coal employees working at underground and surface mines in 2015 -- a 12 percent decrease ...
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has signed on to executive produce “Unearth,” a new documentary that will make its world premiere at DOC NYC on Nov. 16. Directed, produced and shot by ...
Pages in category "Documentary films about coal in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
King Coal is a 2023 documentary film about the culture around coal mining in Appalachia. [2] [3] References