Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
2007 FESTIVAL
58 min.
The first film series to chronicle the history of one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges and diverse peoples who have inhabited them. The mountains themselves are the central character. Sissy Spacek, E.O. Wilson and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and others narrate this story of how the mountains have shaped the people and how people have shaped the mountains – the dynamic interaction of natural and human history.
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