DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE GROUND

A stark testimony to the coal industry and its decline in West Virginia. For generations, the path of the region’s men was clear: they mined. Appalachia profited from coal mining, but as the frenzy died down and less and less coal was mined, things went downhill with disastrous effects: a crumbling economy, destruction of the environment, dramatic consequences to people’s health, no future prospects and the devastating opioid epidemic. A documentary about the limitless power of corporations.

DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE GROUND
Peter Hutchinson, Lucas Sabean
USA 2021, 82 min, OmdU
18.10.2022, 18:30