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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (670 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, leave India in 1963 attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London. It comes as a shock for both the Sharmas and the residents of a small Welsh coal-mining village when they are assigned there instead.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. Robert Kennedy Jr. joins the fight to preserve the mountain.
Publisher
Entertainment One Films
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A critically-acclaimed story of one woman's struggle to protect her family and friends from the ravages of the coal-mining industry in a 1940's Nova Scotia town of Scot-Irish immigrants. Touching and memorable.
Publisher
Appalshop
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the Pittston Coal Company, and the disaster which occurred in 1972 when a coal waste dam burst, leaving 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. The first part discusses the disaster through interviews with survivors, union leaders, citizens, and company officials. The second part, filmed ten years later, explores survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities and the difficulties they faced from the government and the Company.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the economic and social plight of West Virginia coal miners. Focuses on the environmental despoilation caused by mining that inhabitants of West Virginia's coal county are forced to endure.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
8) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Special features included.
Publisher
Appalshop
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings. A pioneering woman in bluegrass and hard-core country music, Hazel has influenced generations of songwriters and musicians. Interviews with Hazel and fellow musicians are interwoven with archival footage, concert performances, and 16 of her most powerful songs.
10) Sludge
Publisher
Appalshop
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. By morning, Wolf Creek was oozing with the black waste; on Coldwater Fork, a ten-foot wide stream became a 100-yard expanse of thick sludge. The spill polluted hundreds of miles of waterways, contaminated the water supply for over...
Series
Criterion collection volume 370--373
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 586 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Emperor Jones: Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean islans.
Paul Robeson, tribute to an artist: Traces Robeson's career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, "Ol' man river."
Body and soul: A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts...
Series
Studio classic volume 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of the trials and tribulations of a Welsh mining family. Spans 50 years, from the turn of the century fair-playing way of life and ends after unionization, strikes, deaths, and child abuse.
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