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- A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
- John Sayles came to West Virginia to make his film MATEWAN, about the gun fight over labor in the coal fields. The film has had a lasting impact on locals regarding the subject and the filming's influence on people's lives.
- For a few months in the fall of 1993, Nickel Plate Road (NKP) 2-8-4 steam locomotive number 765 was cosmetically altered to appear as Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) locomotive number 2765, to pull several excursion trains on former C&O track. We see 2765 on a run from Cincinnati Union Terminal to Russell Kentucky, then ride in the cab on the way back. We also see footage in the New River Gorge region in West Virginia.
- Spectacular track-side footage of Nickel Plate Road (NKP) 2-8-4 steam locomotive number 765 as it pulls excursion trains in the fall of 1985 and 1986 in West Virginia and northern Kentucky.
- Singer John Denver wanted West Virginia's country roads to take him home. Viewers soar above those country roads to see the state's mountainous beauty, understand its Civil War history, and examine the controversy surrounding a type of mining in which entire mountaintops are removed.