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Burning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack. The film focuses on the impacts of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians, where mountain ridges are scraped away by heavy machinery to access coal seams below, a process that is cheaper and faster than traditional mining methods but is ...
- David Novack
- Alexis Zoullas, David Novack
- Raz Mesinai
- David Novack, Richard Hankin
The film profiles the courageous West Virginians who challenged the powerful coal industry, and launched a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life. Host a Screening | Buy the DVD | About the Film
Apr 22, 2008 · Burning the Future: Coal in America: Directed by David Novack. With Maria Gunnoe, Bill Raney, Rocky Hackworth, Chrystal Gunnoe. Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia.
- (63)
- Documentary
- David Novack
- 2008-04-22
Aug 25, 2009 · In BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia.
- (14)
- English
- Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- 2 hours
In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging "clean coal" energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction.
- HDCam and D-Cinema
- 56 minutes
- 89 minutes
- 2008 & 2012
In BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, ordinary ...
Feb 28, 2008 · Impassioned docu "Burning the Future: Coal in America" reps a strong indictment of mountaintop removal mining and its disastrous effects on the environment -- a case made all the more convincing ...