King Coal review: Moving documentary shows bequest of a dying industry

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New Scientist Default Image — Gabrielle Wilson and Lanie Marsh in King Coal

Curren Sheldon

Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Requisite Media (US: Restricted launch, from 11 August; UK: Launch to be introduced)

What occurs when a neighborhood is sustained by a dirty industry? Elaine McMillion Sheldon, director of Heroin(e), the 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary concerning the US opioid epidemic, seems for solutions as she revisits the mining neighborhood she used to name dwelling in central Appalachia, and journeys to different fossil fuel-dependent cities in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Tennessee for her new factual movie King Coal …

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