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Buffalo Creek: An Act of God/Buffalo Creek Revisited - S1 E5

Premiered On: 02/03/2011

On February 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. The disaster left 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizen's groups, and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood. Filmed ten years after the Flood, "Buffalo Creek Revisited" looks at the second disaster, in which the survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region's land and resources. A 2011 Production.

• Thursday July 9, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday July 9, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

Strangers and Kin - S1 E6

Premiered On: 02/10/2011

The film traces the evolution of the "hillbilly" image through Hollywood films, network news and entertainment shows, dramatic renderings of popular literature, and interviews with contemporary Appalachians to demonstrate how stereotypes are created, reinforced, and often used to rationalize exploitation. A 2011 Production.

• Thursday July 16, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday July 16, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

Long Journey Home - S1 E7

Premiered On: 02/17/2011

This documentary dispels this myth of a "pure Anglo-Saxon" Appalachia as it explores the ethnic diversity of the region, the economic forces causing people to migrate into and out of the area, and the personal choices individuals make to stay, to leave, and to come back. A 2011 Production.

• Thursday July 23, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday July 23, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category/Coal Miner: Frank Jackson/UMWA: A House Divided - S1 E8

Premiered On: 02/24/2011

Nimrod Workman was born in 1895 and spent his life raising a family of eleven by working in the West Virginia coal mines. The film is an extended visit at his home as he and his family prepare meals, build an addition to the house, dig for yellow root, swap jokes with the neighbors, and enjoy each other's company. Next, an early Appalshop film juxtaposes coal miner Frank Jackson's personal recollections of union organizing and mining work with scenes of him in and around the mines. Also, a film of a speech given by W.A. Boyle, president of UMWA, at a miners' rally in Big Stone Gap, Va., in the summer of 1970 with scenes at a mine and interviews with working and disabled miners. A 2011 Production.

• Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

Harriette Arnow/Ourselves and That Promise - S1 E9

Premiered On: 03/03/2011

In interviews filmed not long before her death, Harriette Simpson Arnow, author of the "The Dollmaker", describes the basic biographical details of her life and reveals the difficulties of being a writer, a wife, and a mother. And. three contemporary Kentuckians, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, and Billy Davis, discuss their work and its relationship to the environment in which they live. A 2011 Production.

• Thursday August 6, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday August 6, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

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• Thursday July 2, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday July 2, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

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• Thursday June 25, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday June 25, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY

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• Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
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• Thursday June 11, 2026 8:00 am ET on KETKY
• Thursday June 11, 2026 7:00 am CT on KETKY