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

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

A wooden barn sheltering a cow and agricultural equipment sits behind a wooden fence. On the hill...

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

A meeting following a film screening. Participants discuss employment standards in the coal indus...

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

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

A man talking about the coal industry.

A press conference about the UMWA, productivity and taxes, and the coal industry. 

Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism associated with the Appalachian Volun...

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

Women at Brookside, Harlan County, KY discussing life in the coal camps, bath houses, their famil...

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

Coal miner John Carter discussing coal camps, coal mining, and the changes in community and econo...

John Carter discussing life in the mountains before the coal mines and railroads, mountaineers, l...

Coal miner John Hinson discusses working in the mines, being a supervisor, tells stories about di...

Field audio tape of Hobart Grills and John Tiller discussing the different clashes between union ...

John Tiller discussing working in coal mines. A group of men discuss dangers of coal mining and h...

Lois Scott discusses union organizing and her personal family experiences with union-related viol...

A woman discussing union organizing, the changing power structures in the UMWA, Tony Boyle, and d...

Raw footage from the filming of Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986). Anne Lewis interviews Nomond...

A woman and her boy talking about trading, being raised in Evarts, life in the camps. A woman dis...

W.P. Tams, a former coal operator, discussing unions, John L. Lewis, the death of the coal camp, ...

Former coal operator W.P. Tams Jr. discussing the Virginian Railway, changes in the transportatio...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, folk tales, reviews, a calendar of evnets, and poem...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, photographs, reviews, poems and a calendar of event...

Contents include articles, oral histories, fictional stories, poetry, reviews and photography. Au...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, oral histories, plays, poems and reviews. Authors i...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, poems, reviews and artwork. Authors include Verna M...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, music reviews, poems, film reviews and photography....

Contents include articles, fictional stories, poems, reviews, and photographs. Authors include Ja...

Contents include articles, fictional stories, poems, prose and reviews. Authors include Patricia ...

New Woman Blues 
14 minutes.  Larry Crutcher, Jessica Field, Kenneth Hall, Tracy HolbrookAppalachian Media Institute collection

Headwaters, Appalshop, 04/01/91, "Roving Pickets", 28:20
Video of a 1991 release directed b...

A smokestack connected to a power plant is visible across a body of water. The pond is likely an ...