Mine War on Blackberry Creek
MINE WAR ON BLACKBERRY CREEK 1986, 29:00 A report from the long and bitter United Mine Workers of America strike against the A.T. Massey Coal Company, a subsidiary of a multinational…
Peace Stories
PEACE STORIES 1985, 29:00 Experiences of three veterans from the south who decided that war is wrong -- William Farmer, a World War I veteran; Connie Bowling who worked on the…
I’m What This is All About
I'M WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT 1985, 29:00 with Mimi Pickering Parents in rural Lincoln County are shown fighting for equitable treatment of their children, for the preservation of community schools,…
Still from film by anne lewis: ARTUS MOSER of BUCKEYE COVE
Artus Moser of Buckeye Cove
ARTUS MOSER of BUCKEYE COVE 1985, 29:00 Artus Moser, "a Renaissance man of the mountains," was born in 1894, and grew up on the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, where…
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
MABEL PARKER HARDISON SMITH 1985, 28:30 African-American teacher in the coalfields for 35 years and gospel musician. "Smith articulately recollects the life of a black miner’s family while archival and personal…
Yellow Creek, KY
Still photo of documentary by Anne Lewis.
Yellow Creek, Kentucky
YELLOW CREEK, KENTUCKY 1984, 29:00 Documents the efforts of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens to stop a commercial tannery from dumping toxic wastes into the creek that flows through their…
Sarah Bailey
SARAH BAILEY 1984, 29:00 From Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky, a portrait of e of Appalachia's finest weavers and corn shuck artists. "From her corn shuck dolls and flowers to…