Appalshop Channel

Buffalo Creek Revisited – Sample

Filmed 10 years after the deadly flood in 1972, the film looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region's land and resources.

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Up the Ridge Trailer

Up the Ridge offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts and explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict.

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Stranger With A Camera/intro

The death of a Canadian filmmaker, shot and killed by a local resident in Appalachia at the height of America’s War on Poverty, serves as a departure point for documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Barret to explore issues of media representation and to reflect on the complex intersection of communities, culture, and cameras. (60 min., copyright 2000, Appalshop, Inc.)

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Stranger With A Camera/Ann O'Connor

"We could never bring our Dad back."

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