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Pages in category "Documentary films about Appalachia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Documentary films about Appalachia (13 P) H. Films about hillbillies (20 P) W. Films set in West Virginia (2 C, 42 P) ... Cold Mountain (film) D. Deliverance; The ...
Most of the people featured in the series come from, or live in, the Appalachian region, including the narrator Sissy Spacek.Some of the other people featured include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, E. O. Wilson, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Coles, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Hudson, Denise Giardina, Mary Lee Settle, John Ehle, Sharyn McCrumb, and Gurney Norman.
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The film is told from the point of view of environmental litigator and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and several activists including Maria Gunnoe (Goldman Prize winner), Bo Webb (Purpose Prize winner), Ed Wiley and West Virginia based environmental attorney Joe Lovett of the Appalachian Mountain Advocates (formerly the Appalachian Center for ...
The results of Campbell and Sharp's respective work were ultimately made publicly available in a groundbreaking 1917 publication "English Folk Songs from Southern Appalachia" [12] which exposed for the first time the persistence of such folk songs, of Scotch-Irish origin, in the repertoires of the residents of the remote Appalachian mountains ...
The film uses a semi-documentary style of presentation that was popular at the time. It was based on an original story by Irwin Gielgud commissioned by producer Jerry Bresler. [5] Director Joseph M. Newman and Bresler had previously worked together in the shorts department at MGM. [6] Ann Blyth was originally announced for the female lead. [7]
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