Devil Put the Coal in the Ground

Uniquely structured upon the personal storytelling of native West Virginians Devil Put The Coal In The Ground is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and its decline From the realities of a crumbling economy to the ravages of the opioid epidemic to the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health the film is a cautionary tale of unfettered corporate power and an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia