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Oct 9, 2017 · Left: "Matewan" film still from 1987; Right: A 2017 image of Thurmond, West Virginia, where the film was shot. Thirty years ago the premiere of a small-budget, independent film had an out-sized effect on how many people in Appalachian coal country thought about their region and their past.
Oct 6, 2017 · Sayles chose to shoot the film in a tiny West Virginia town, nearly a ghost town, called Thurmond, where train tracks line the only street deep in the gorge carved by the mighty New River. “Just...
Oct 29, 2019 · Used to working on low-budget, independent films, Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi eventually raised nearly $4 million to make Matewan. They filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia, over a seven-week period in autumn 1986. Sayles’s early movies look prescient two decades into the twenty-first century.
Dec 13, 2023 · The John Sayles-directed film is set in 1920s Mingo County and dramatizes the Matewan Massacre, a bloody battle between coal miners and Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency men. The history of West Virginia anthem ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’.
Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920.
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Jul 14, 2023 · The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum opened in Matewan opened in 2015. (Ohoto by JJN Multimedia) Lou Martin, Shaun Slifer and Lorraine Starsky all laud “Matewan,” a 1987 John Sayles film that depicted the brutal fight to form a union in that southern West Virginia coal mining town.
Dec 13, 2023 · Matewan. In 1983 novelist, screen writer, and independent film director John Sayles and his producer, Maggie Renzie, came to West Virginia to produce a film about the Matewan Massacre. The massacre was a real event that took place in 1920 in Matewan, on the Tug Fork in Mingo County, during the West Virginia Mine Wars.
