Box 14

Discusses the poverty and problems of Appalachia, explaining that the land is rich with coal, yet its residents are denied adequate food, housing, and medical care. Focuses upon eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. Uses interviews with a local family to show how a lack of education and working skills makes these residents prisoners of the land.

Shows poor land owners fighting to obtain a law controlling strip mining, a process which damaged their houses and farms, and desecrated the beauty of the mountains. Shows the struggle within themselves and the opposing forces.

Report on the religious fervor of a small Pentecostal congregation in WV whose fundamentalist philosophy encourages the biblical teaching of speaking in tongues and handling snakes.

Footage of Arthurdale, the first "resettlement community" under the New Deal.