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- #KingCoalPBS | www.pbs.org/pov/kingcoal
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. The film reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and transcends time and place, untangling the pain from the beauty, and illuminating the innately human capacity for imagination and change.
King Coal will make its national broadcast premiere on the award-winning PBS television series POV on Monday, June 24, 2024, at 10pmET/9C (check local listings) on PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS App.
Bravo to the editor of this trailer
Seriously
Agreed
Truly artistic.
Grew up in Appalachia. The mountains were beautiful. Coal was the savior and the destroyer
I saw this at a film festival in Baltimore. It’s wonderful and so beautifully shot
This is the country where I grew up. My maternal grandfather entered the mines at 13. My paternal grandfather was the first person to teach mining at the Wyoming County, WV Vocational School. My hometown was the subject of a flash flood from a burst coal slurry dam that killed over 120 people. I was 15. I have seen what the mining industry did to the land and the people.
@@dbob3405 I remember that. 1970 or 1971? My grandfather had a mule team and wagon. He used to haul water to the mines in Pike KY back in the day. I am from Wyoming Co
@@suss6385 you probably know who Buck Harless was . Buck was born in Logan County where I grew up and later moved to Mingo County. He started out doing jobs around the mines, later going in on a saw mill. He built that into a billion dollar business that included international timber production, gun manufacturing, trailer manufacturing, auto parts and banking with businesses from South and Central America to South Korea. He was a true business genius. Just like fellow West Virginians Chuck Yeager in aeronautics or Charlie McCoy in music, if you read their respective stories in a fictional novel, you would throw it away as unbelievable. By the way, the capper to my maternal grandfather’s story, is he was resolutely loyal to the mines even when many knew that the owners were using these men as expendable parts. I guess he grew up so poor and had to work to survive at such a young age, he was happy for any employment and viewed it as key to his family’s survival. He was a scab when the union began its bloody road to organizing the mines. My grandfather said, “no man was going to tell him when he could work” and that attitude nearly cost him and his family their lives. Once he was actually pinned down with gunfire while trying to get to the mine. I suspect if he wasn’t liked before that time, he would be dead. How did the mining business repay that loyalty? When my Grandfather was in his 60’s, he failed the company’s physical and lost his job due to the toll coal dust had taken on his lungs. After terminating his employment due to lung damage, they next proceeded to fight his black lung claim. My grandparents were hard working honest and trusting people to the point of naivety. The railroad used imminent domain to take their farm plus two other houses they owned and an entire side of a mountain that was part of their farm. My grandmother took the railroad’s 1st offer despite it being patently a fraction of the value because she trusted them. Her half-brother was a famous trial lawyer from the Appalachia area of Virginia who drove the first Rolls Royce I ever saw. He studied for his law license while in a tuberculosis sanitarium when you could just sit for the bar without a college degree. He told my grandmother that the offer was ridiculous and he would be happy to represent her. Even that couldn’t make her realize that it was a ridiculous lowball offer and she took their money. I come from Scotch Irish stock and we were a people that in many respects wanted to be left alone-hence, ending up in those mountains. It also breeds a certain stoicism. Whatever the reason, for very smart people they, in my opinion, made a few very dubious decisions. Still, I am looking at them from the prism of my life which was very different to the life they led-I have enjoyed a very comfortable life that they fundamentally made possible because they made sure my mother went to college. Whatever their decisions, I am sure those decisions made sense to them at the time and money isn’t everything. Given their more than meager beginnings, they had incredibly rich lives. I have eaten in some of the most famous restaurants in the World and the best meals I have ever had were at my grandparent’s table. I have vivid memories of my grandmother killing a chicken for fried chicken accompanied by homemade cornbread with fresh butter and apple butter, greenbeans, sliced tomatoes, corn on the cob, cucumbers, onions and new potatoes in white chicken gravy all fresh from the garden. These meals are an integral part of my memory and their value to me is incalculable
@@dbob3405small world. I did know Buck. He was very supportive of the WVU school of mines and the petroleum engineering school. A very forward thinking person. If you have not read "Hillbilly Eulogy" u should.
Cheers
@@CraigerAce my grandparents didn’t have a lot of money but they lived as rich as life as imaginable from the food to living out in the country in a beautiful area. Sounds like your family had a similar experience. I still have incredible memories. We had to cross an old “swinging bridge” across the Guyandotte River to get to their farm. A “swinging bridge” is exactly what its name implies, a rickety wooden structure that tends to swing when you are crossing it. As a young kid it scared the crap out of me; if I crossed one now, I probably would be even more terrified. Back then it was just a fact of life.
Yes, the notorious swinging bridge. I understand exactly what you mean. Somewhere along the way between Ohio and North Carolina, where we sometimes went on vacation, in a tourist ‘trap,’ I walked across one. It wasn’t a happy experience and I never did so again. Funny, because I was a reckless child, so I’ve been told, but that one time did it for me.
Looking forward to watching this. It looks beautifully shot with compelling storytelling. Hurray for PBS!
Wow.. this looks haunting. And that singing, beautiful!
Blurring the lines between documentary and scripted film, looks awesome!
This looks absolutely gorgeous. I haven't seen anything like it in a while. Can't wait to see it!!
I worked on the Kanawha river for four years and this is real close to the heart GREAT JOB!
Absolutely loved King Coal. Great storytelling, cinematic, moving. Thank you so much!
Now this is a story that needs to be told!
2 of my uncles were killed in the coal mines in West Virginia. Another uncle was crippled for life in a cave in. It is a hard life, even for the strong.
Looking forward to this one.
Looks so good!
The trailer is so compelling that I have to see it.
01:00 Does anyone know this song? "I've seen a time of brotherhood..."
🙏Thanks!
It's an original ballad written specifically for this film, called "King Coal" as well. The writer of the song is Sam Lee.
@@jadefire2817 Thank you ever so much. 🤗 Got to explore Sam Lee's music now.
Would love to see this in theatres
Wow.
When and where can watch this!! Reminds me alot of my hometown in Sweden
should have Hazel Dickens on the soundtrack- "Blue Tattoo', 'Black Lung', 'Fire in the Hole'.
Hearing the stories, songs of abject misery, black lung, Hazel Dickins, it's a shared history, but it's over. Won't you sing one song for me.
My dad was a nuclear engineer, we should all just mine uranium.
My family is from the coal field ares of eastern Ky. Luckily my parents took us four kids and got the hell outta there. A dark shadowy world awaits you in the life of a coal mining family.
I always am intrigued by communities of coal miners. They dig coal while most of them are taught that God made the earth 7000 years ago. Weird. Unless coal ISNT old plants and animals, like the guy said, and God just made straight coal for some reason.
LAND BACK
Enough, enough, enough, some traditions, ways of life, industries need to fade away.... this is when more harm (that of environment destruction - air, water, land) and lives lost outweigh the benefit to the few.
They are not saying coal is great, they are just telling the story of a culture that was created around coal. It’s not the only aspect of appalachian culture, just one
Says you.
@@Danafondo you saying she's not 100 percent spot on, cletus? 'cause you'd be all wrong...
It’s a wretched culture that needs to fade out.
You only say that because this involves people you could care less about, or probably even despise. You have far more empathy towards trees and rocks than you do these people.
I simply don’t understand this blind loyalty that people have to coal. It’s a dying industry, it makes the miners and the people around the mines sick, and does irreparable damage to the environment. The only people who benefit are the rich coal mine owners like Joe Manchin. These people need to move on from this. I don’t see such blind allegiance to any other industry like coal.
I don’t agree with it either but you have to understand, many communities and families would not exist if it weren’t for coal. I’m not excusing anything that’s just the facts.
Unfortunately it’s also the cheapest form of energy production, it has provided vast amounts of employment and revenue for governments and there are hundreds of years of reserves easily accessible.
The political decision to turn away from coal has enabled China , India etc. to become super powers and at some point very soon will overtake the US economy, why only Western Democracies determined to destroy their economies in pursuit of the fallacy
of Net Zero ? I hope everyone who has supported the CO2 agendas lives long enough to realise just how gullible they have been!
I wonder if the documentary is going to even bother mentioning the reason for the decline of the coal industry. It's decline didn't have to happen, but Washington D.C. said to all of these people in Appalachia, "eh fuck 'em. We're going to Save the Planet!"
maybe it's not the best fuel source and doesn't warrant a national (or international) market. That's why communities need to stick together and use *all of your resources. There's not always going to be a market for things and it has nothing to do with where you live.
@@bellydansahhis point is that it wasn’t organic, the government interfered with no plan for these people. Learn to code, right? FJB
@@rationalfemale5717 welp, that goes directly to the 2010 Supreme Court decision handed down in the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission.....so It was an extremist political corporation's interests to legally influence elections. Leading to the election of lawmakers who think the Federal government shouldn't own (and PROTECT) public land; instead it should be privatized. So landowners can do what they like with it, regardless of the local constituents' input or wishes.
Learn your dates and history, right? FTR
@@bellydansah and that’s one of the reason I don’t vote republican for republicans sake. The Patriot Act was the other. I’ve voted for one republican in the last almost 20 years. I’ve voted for one democrat but on the whole I vote independent.
God Bless Fossil Fuels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! next time do a film on Cobalt mining.. green BS propaganda
wow, what a giant, asinine C...
I was born and raised in san,francisco c.a.,,,,but if i was born or just lived in a place like this place here in this video...i would get a job,two if possible, and just work,and work and save and save every penny even if it meant living poor for a few years....id save a few thousand ,,10,000$ or more,,,,,then id move out Of that town and never go back,,,,theres nothing there!!!-
There’s that great Democrat empathy. Terrible people the whole lot of you.
It’s long past time to retrain in clean energy, Ev servicing etc.