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The Last Mountain

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Activists try to prevent Massey Energy from utilizing the environmentally hazardous method of mountaintop removal to extract coal from Coal River Mountain.
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Jennie Punter Globe and Mail 07/22/2011
3/4
[A] thoughtful and elegantly made documentary. Go to Full Review
Bruce DeMara Toronto Star 07/22/2011
3/4
The picture is as grim as the wasteland that remains after the "mountain top removal" process undertaken by coal companies to reveal the rich seams of coals that lie underneath. Go to Full Review
Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle 07/15/2011
2.5/5
Bite-size facts about mountaintop mining are splashed on the screen, but no substantiating sources are for the information are credited. Go to Full Review
Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 08/06/2019
3/4
It's a refreshing approach to documentary filmmaking whose even tempered presentation might actually create real change. Go to Full Review
Jay Antani Cinema Writer 01/27/2012
3.5/4
trenchant, impassioned Go to Full Review
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) 09/09/2011
3/4
You can't look at those manmade scars and not feel your blood boil, and that anger flows throughout Bill Haney's fiery documentary "The Last Mountain." Go to Full Review
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07/30/2012 Alarming and infuriating! A must see for anyone who uses electricity. This is the price of convenience. See more 04/04/2012 An extremely important film. Though slow at times, it offers many different opinions and a lot of striking imagery. See more 01/15/2012 Eye-opening documentary about the coal industry's practice of mountaintop removal that pollutes the environment and eliminates many jobs. This threatens the entire Appalachian Mountain range! The "clean" energy electric ads have a new meaning for me now. I am angry about how these large corporations can get away with ignoring environmental laws and have total disregard for innocent landowners who are impacted. See more 01/07/2012 It tears my heart to see the place where my ancestors thrived being destroyed. See more 01/02/2012 You can't help but feel you're witnessing an American tragedy. See more 12/02/2011 I really enjoyed this documentary. Its very thorough and presents a lot of different reasons why the mining makes no sense. Best of all it offers good alternatives at the end. If you had any doubt that the entire American political system is bought and sold this movie is good evidence of how corrupt and owned every politician is. Some day some student is going to be in history class and put up his or her hand and say 'wait a minute teacher... what do you mean they poisoned themselves, destroyed the planet, refused to try and develop better technologies, and allowed a handful of people to become billionaires in the process??? See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Activists try to prevent Massey Energy from utilizing the environmentally hazardous method of mountaintop removal to extract coal from Coal River Mountain.
Director
Bill Haney
Producer
Eric Grunebaum, Bill Haney, Clara Bingham
Screenwriter
Bill Haney, Peter Rhodes
Distributor
Dada Films
Rating
PG (Brief Language|Some Thematic Material)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 3, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 23, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$119.7K
Runtime
1h 35m
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