American Experience

The Mine Wars

Directed by Randall MacLowry
TV-PG
S28 • E2    Jan 25, 2016    55m
7.9
The story of small people going up against very big forces for a better nation. In the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization.

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Cast of The Mine Wars

  • Michael MurphySelf - Narrator
  • James Robert GreenSelf - Professor of History
  • Doug EsteppSelf - Local Historian, West Virginia
  • Rosemary FeurerSelf - Associate Professor and Lead Historian for the Mother Jones Museum
  • Thomas G. AndrewsSelf - Professor of History and Author of 'Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War'
  • Denise GiardinaSelf - Novelist
  • Beverly GageSelf - Professor of 20th-Century American History, Yale University
  • Joe William Trotter Jr.Self - Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Rebecca J. BaileySelf - Historian, Northern Kentucky University
  • C. Belmont KeeneySelf - Historian
  • Ellis Ray WilliamsSelf - Former Coal Miner
  • Jean BattloSelf - Local Historian, West Virginia
  • Carl StarrSelf - Former Coal Miner
  • Ronald L. LewisSelf - Historian, Department of History, West Virginia University
  • John Alexander WilliamsSelf - Professor of History, Appalachian State University
  • David Alan CorbinSelf - Author of 'Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars'
  • John HennenSelf - Professor, Morehead State University
  • Paul H. RakesSelf - Professor, West Virginia University
  • William Sidney HatfieldSelf - Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia
  • Billy MitchellSelf - Deputy Director of the US Air Service
  • Harry Hill BandholtzSelf - US Army General
  • Randall MacLowryDirector / Producer
  • Mark ZwonitzerWriter
  • Molly JacobsProducer

 

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