119 objects

A short story by Eli Gover about the destruction wrought in Appalachia by the coal economy. Featu...

This Armistice Day show includes several segments. "Wives and Widows" includes footage of veteran...

This video from 1993 features testimony and footage from union coal miners on strike at the Beth-...

Blood Stained Coal: The Scotia Mine Disaster 
2000 
12 minutes.  James Pigman, Jeremy...

A film about surface mine reclamation in Eastern Kentucky. Filmed and edited by Michael Matney & ...

A woman discussing issues around women working in the mines, pregnancy in the mines, women injure...

A  group of women discussing employment, coal companies, scheduling future meetings.

A woman talking about coal mining, her family's work in mines in Alabama and Tennessee, working i...

A woman discussing working in the mines, harassment and racism in the mines, injuries from workin...

A woman [Mavis Williams in Benham] discussing cleaning the belt line, belt line creaks in backgro...

Machines clanking, someone claps hands, woman talks about belt rubbing. A woman discusses working...

A woman talking about the physical demands of coal mining, the typical miner, a rock fall, stereo...

A woman talking about women coal miners, disadvantages for black miners and women miners.

Barbara Angles of Westernport, Maryland, interviewed on March 5, 1981. Angles discusses community...

An interview with a woman talking about coal mining, the advantages/disadvantages of mining, why ...

A group of women talking about working in the mines, sex discrimination in the mines, hiring prac...

Audio recording of Studs Terkel interviewing Denise Giardina about her new book "The Unqui...

Digging for a Living 
1997 
15 minutes.  Linda Burgen, Jeremy Bussey, Chastity Harris...

Portrait of a coal miner which includes footage in and around Laurel Branch Mine in Virginia.  Fr...

A man discussing coal mining regulations.

[Report II, Strip Mining]  Audio recording of Eugene F. Mooney (Secretary, Kentucky Dept. of Natu...

A man talking about the coal industry.

A man discussing regulations and compensation for coal miners, contracts and strikes, [Sam] Churc...

A press conference about new contract for mining company, address by Sam [Church?], UMWA agreemen...

Headwaters: 4/28/95, 26:10; Broadcast Master - 2 Ch. Mono; Appalshop documentary on Pneumoconiosi...

Appalshop documentary on Pneumoconiosis, commonly know as black lung.

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss why they decided to be miners, working in the m...

Miners working in an underground mine. A miner discusses fossils as an indication of "bad top."

Miners working underground, machines whirring in background, continuous miner. Man talks to produ...

Miners working inside a mine, production staff asks questions about roof bolts, mine safety, city...

Coal miners working underground, discuss jokes, working underground, animals in mines, dangers of...

Miners discussing coal mining culture, life as a coal miner, hazards of working underground, the ...

Miners shoveling coal off belt. Men set a crib to hold the top up.

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss working in the mines.

Miners working in an underground mine. 

Group of miners working in an underground mine, discussing what it's like to work in the mine