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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 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...

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...

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

January 15, 1987 - Miners entering and working in an underground mine, filmed by Anne Lewis and A...

Bulldozers and machinery working outside a mine. Miners discuss working in the mines, eat their l...

Nimrod Workman talks about working in the coal mines and sings Coal Black Mining Blues and Going ...

Nimrod Workman talks about property relations between coal companies and locals; Nimrod sings I H...

Bessie Cornet describing the conditions at Brookside in the beginnings of the strike, discusses t...

11/16/76, Viper, Kentucky. Bill Hayes (former Inspector for Dept. of Reclamation) discusses surfa...

August 19, 1978. William Hayes (working for the US Dept. of the Interior) discusses mining and mo...

A man discussing his career as coal miner, harassment and safety in mines, his observations the d...

Farmer Asher talking about coal mining, changes in the industry, miners' responsibility for accid...