Mari-Lynn C. Evans

Follows the 300 year history of the Appalachian people with interviews by scholars, musicians and writers.

Documentary focusing on the environmental and economic injustice and corporate control in West Virginia and its rippling effect on all American workers. This film tells the story of a hard-working people who have historically had limited choices and have never benefited fairly from the rich natural resources of their land. The failure to diversify the economy has insured control by outside, unrestricted corporations with the support of politicians kept in their positions by these very same companies.

COAL COUNTRY tells of the dramatic struggles around the use and acquisition of coal.