Black lung is a debilitating, incurable, and often fatal lung disease caused by exposure to coal dust. Great Britain recognized it as an occupational disease by the turn of the 20th century, but the American medical community still denied any relationship between exposure to coal dust and disabling lung disease until the late 1960s, when a movement of Appalachian coal miners, their families, and a few maverick doctors and politicians forced the nation to confront the issue of occupational disease and disability.
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At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Vard...
In the 1980s and 1990s a wave of murders bloodied the idyllic coastline of Sydney’s eastern suburbs....
'Karama has no walls' is set amidst Yemen's 2011 uprising. The film illustrates the nature of the Ye...
If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with ...
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's w...
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media an...
Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki,...
Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.
A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Penetrating the oil industry's secretive world, The Great Invisible examines the Deepwater Horizon d...
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, p...
A former U.S. Navy Seal seeks life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness living life as a transgende...
Every January, the country's largest jigsaw puzzle contest is held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Choose yo...
Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for ident...
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...