Most Popular Mimi Pickering Trailers
Total trailers found: 8
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the great coal strikes of the twenties and thirties.
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot Trailer (2012)
01 July 2012
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader.
Chemical Valley Trailer (1991)
04 November 1991
A West Virginia community is deeply divided over potentially life and death questions over a local chemical plant that fuels the area's fragile economy.
Buffalo Creek Revisited Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources.
Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song Trailer (2002)
21 March 2002
A biographical documentary about the life Hazel Dickens profiling a modern woman dealing with contemporary issues from a feminist perspective that is the product of her experiences being Appalachian, being displaced physically and culturally, being poor and working class, being a woman artist in a man’s world, and being a bearer of tradition.
Appalheads Trailer (2025)
19 February 2025
Decades after leaving Appalachia, a daughter returns to eastern Kentucky to excavate her father’s remarkable filmmaking legacy and examine the pull home still has on her.
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man Trailer (1975)
31 December 1975
In 1972 a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia.
The Struggle of Coon Branch Mountain Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
In their efforts to better their children’s education, the residents of this small West Virginia community found themselves face to face with an unfeeling, bureaucratic political structure.
