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While recent headlines hastily declare the death of King Coal, a powerful new film documentary based on seven years of investigation poignantly captures the complexities and largely overlooked stories of the enduring trauma of the coal industry on miners, their families, affected neighbors and the ravaged communities and Appalachian mountains they call home.
As one of the most timely, poetic and informed film documentaries released this year, Overburden: Two Women and the Mountain Between Them, chronicles a quintessential American journey–amid the tragedy of lawlessness in the workplace and the environment–of two courageous women, formerly divided, who shed their fears and find common ground to begin the painful process of dealing with their grief, seeking terms of justice, and healing their damaged communities and mountains.
“We’ve all become family,” Betty, a once fervent pro-coal supporter tells Lorelei, a coal miner’s widow and vocal mountaintop removal mining organizer, in the film. “Don Blankenship has put us together,” she adds, referring to the notorious former Massey Energy CEO.