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Running for the Mountains

  • February 2024
  • 1hr

    18mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Julie Eisenberg,

    Babette Hogan,

    Walter J. Gottlieb,

    Starring

    Charlotte Pritt,

    RUNNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS digs into West Virginia's history of 'patriotic sacrifice,' unearthing veins of dark money and dirty politics. The film tracks grassroots candidates and ordinary citizens' attempts to save their land, water, homes, and communities - calling out the pro-extraction politicians enabling destruction, including Senator Joe Manchin and his likely replacement, coal baron Governor Jim Justice. Appalachia is the proverbial canary in a coal mine; pay attention or pay the price.