King Coal affectionately observes a community still loyal to a dying industrial monarch. JacobOller's review of the documentary:
A 1973 coal miners’ strike in southeast Kentucky only got its powerful energy company back to the bargaining table after its agents or sycophants had murdered multiple people. Barbara Kopple—immersed in the corrupt United Mine Workers of America election that would portend one of these killings—filmed it all, and made one of the best documentaries about mining, labor and America:. In the 50 years since the strike in Harlan County, coal’s national power has been on the decline.
It’s almost absurd how Sheldon presents this transformation from company town to coal-centric theme park. It’s almost too American how her mining communities have incorporated wacky coal propaganda into their daily lives. There are coal-shoveling competitions, fun runs where the rainbow powder tossed onto participants is replaced by coal dust. An image of a suffering miner is tattooed on another, dark black ink embedding in flesh like coal dust permanently entombed under a layer of skin.
As Sheldon goes deep into this culture, riding down into the mines and filming the families who live and die by them, we understand how hard it will be for anything to change. Her central girls have hopes and ambitions far beyond the mines, but they still feel the weight of their home’s anchor.
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