The Last Coal Miners (Injustice Documentary) | Real Stories
The Last Coal Miners (Injustice Documentary) | Real Stories
Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners is a feature documentary about the last twelve independent coal miners in the United States and reveals the crushing injustices they face as they desperately cling to a familiar way of life while fighting off threats from unfamiliar enemies. The film is personal, political, and powerful.
Directed by Marc Brodzik and Produced by Woodshop Films. US. 81 mins.
Filmed from 2004-2008, completed in 2009.
From Hard Coal- Last Of The Bootleg Miners
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Acouple of those MSHA inspectors need to disappear and watch things change!!
Daniel Kane is a complete FOOL,
NO 3 – 20 PERSON MINE IS GOING TO SHUT ANOTHER MINE DOWN..
its Called ""Making a Living", Daniel Kane u complete ignorant fool!!
so saad
INSTEAD OF THIS ""AMUSEMENT"" GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIB. & READ A BOOK !
Crooked government officials, crooked media, crooked big coal companies. These small guys don’t have a chance. Welcome to communist America…..
These men couldn’t be more correct about the corruption in our government and the motives for shutting them down. I’m not a miner, I don’t know any miners, and I don’t live anywhere in the region. But I see the same thing in the trucking industry. The big companies hire the lobbyists who pay the politicians to change the rules so they can take over the smaller companies.
Like too many other things it all comes down to greed/money.
Some hard working men here. Really hope they’re still digging.
Unfuckingbelievable! This is what happens when u vote blue! They’re all for sale! Accidents happen! Ppl get killed in war, who in the gubmnt stops war!?!?
* The Independent Miners;
Remember that the Lord loves a Hard-workin man! God, please Bless these families.
* The Filmmakers;
Very well done. Thank you for reminding people how to make an unbiased documentary
– Semper Fi
33 yrs underground in Aust. Coal mines. Pillar & stall, then long wall, 7,8 ft horizontal seams. Take my hat off to all the brothers that mined the hard stuff. Vertical thin veins. Hard graft
Correct me if I’m wrong isnt it politicians who are invested in there own larger coal investments choking the smaller buisness out?
My mom’s side is from Phillipi,WV and there’s nothing I love more than Appalachia. It hurt my soul watching this. One of the worst travesties the gov’t has ever caused to its own people.
It almost seems that if you were born and raised in the USA, the Government does not want you to succeed in anything that you can do on your own!!! It has been forgotten that this country is the greatest in the world because of the labor and ingenuity of hard working Americans.
Somethings missing… they are at least making 1200$ in PA. How are they living in plywood shacks?
Buddy said I don’t think that there’s anyone safer just because of the way we conduct things, his mouth said it but his eyes and body language said "but" he definitely thinks something is off
Them old time coal miners are tough ol boys!!! They are the heart of america
All they care about is the money… 0 Friendly to the environment… Any aducation?
I would love to work for a small miners apprentice
People, we have the second amendment for a reason, and this type of BS right here IS the reason. Why are we still allowing the government to control us like this and ruin people’s lives, and tear apart families? Meanwhile, as we sit around like good little sheep and just take it the government slowly whittles away that second amendment in the hopes that when we do wake up and decide to fight back we will have no way to fight back, and still we just continue to take it. It’s time for people to wake up, come together, and take our country back.
So many wrong things happening in the name of safety and progress. The mining is still necessary, just how to do it best is the question. Who gets to decide that? That is the biggest problem, who is the decider of it all? What is their motive in their decisions?
I ride coal region alot and have been in a few mines. I Love the history.
This people killing this country digging 🌎.
How does anyone come up with coal took 250 million years to develop? This world is only 6000 years old!
The Rockefeller’s did some awful things to the coal miners
we are rapidly on our way back to those gas prices. Thanks Sleepy Joe
Everything about how they treat these people is wrong but the power Is so in bed with big business you can’t see where one ends and the other begins. It’s the American way
We have limited amounts of oil and gas, hey I know let’s send billionaires into space like you or I go to the park that will be good for everyone.
I know nothing about this, but how could one help these guys?
2021, Where are they now?
Such an interesting story. Real life…real people. Clearly big company money squashing the little guy. So very sad.
Sorry, the environment comes first. Besides, deep down you know coal mining is bad for your health and you refused retraining.
The investation of rats in the world are in high positions. It’s ugly. It should be stopped. But I am afraid they this warrants stay and we normal people suffer.
Oh, did you all see the smirking, that Union Treasurer/Secretary was doing?! …Shutting down that dangerous TWO-person company, just TWO-weeks before Christmas! …Another typical Democrat victory. But what was that bitch’s name? It was something like… ~ Mr. Daniel "I’m-a-bottom-for-any-democrat" …right?
I work in a huge lime quarry and Msha is here now been here for a week they suck and are such dicks
What is the song at 1:12
im a mer- man dad a mer-maN !
I worked 49 ears under ground
To say that these small mines are adversely affecting the big mines in any significant way is the same as saying that mosquito bites are causing a person who has just cut off his arm to bleed to death. Who but a politician is so stupid as to believe this ?
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My papaw was a coal miner for peabody mines in Terre Haute, Indiana. He died of black lung in his 70’s.
My son was a coal miner he got killed in a car wreck 2 years ago coming home from work double shift at the coal mine he fell sleep he was 29 he worked in Grundy Virginia, Buchanan county. The coal mines got my grandpa and my daddy and my son I hate the coal mine.
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Let them dig coal if they want 💯👍🏴🇺🇸
When will people learn that big brother is NOT their friend? They are not, have not, and will not ever be our friends! They are rapists of the Earth who seek to steal, kill, and destroy all that is in their path to unbridled, unrestrained, totally refined GREED AND DESTRUCTION in the name of personal and corporate gain. Damn the Earth, damn their fellow man, and damned be everything in their path to gain. Wake up people because this is the religion and mantra of the elite (i.e. the 1% who plays on our dignities, morals, and values at the total expense of everything). These people answer only to the god of this world.
Who is Beth Cane who sings "won’t be long (and I’ll be hating you)" at the close of this film?
If they’ve been working since the age of 15, they should own the mine or be able to make an offer to buy. Sometimes the ego has to be put aside to get an education, better occupation to feed the family. It’s not the government not wanting to help. It’s about creating your own business so others don’t control how money you make, if you’ll put food on your table, if the family will go homeless etc. Own your own.
That lady in the red shirt hit it right on the nose its the big company’s paying these inspectors to shut them down with fines so they can swoop in and buy their land for pennys
Y’all rock! Indiana County here. Mary jane mine was the last mine a uncle of mine worked and retired from. Ill never forget my grandfathers coming home covered in coal dust. Cleaning dust off them as they were head’en out to the fields and taking care of their crops, farms. Hard to the core they were. Im one of the oldest grandkids and remember it well. God Bless Y’all
Love those old out of date myths claiming millions of years to produce coal…
I sit here watching this, wondering to myself, Wondering where are all these men today.