The Breaks of the Mountain, materials, c.1999
Sub-Series (ap.afc.07.24)
- Extent
- 1 Film containers
- 89 Video cassettes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VII. Appalshop Films 1991-1999 > The Breaks of the Mountain, materials, c.1999
- Scope and Contents
- Contains materials related to the color documentary The Breaks of the Mountain: Russell Fork Gorge, a 1999 release. The film examines a coalmining community on the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River in Kentucky. Through interviews and footage the community is documented seeking a route to sustainable development as it weighs the effects of ecotourism and extractive industries on the environment and the rare river gorge at Russell Fork. Subjects include environmental aspects of ecotourism and coal mining in Kentucky, and the Big Sandy River of Kentucky and West Virginia
- Related Work
- The Breaks of the Mountain: The Russell Fork Gorge
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