Updated version of the documentary film "Out of the Depths: The Miners' Story" (1984), which was broadcast on PBS in 1988 as part of the series "A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers." The film uses interviews with coal miners, their families, and historians to tell the story of life as a coal miner and in the coal camps in Colorado in the early 20th century. A significant portion of the film centers on the working conditions, unions, and strikes, culminating in the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.
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Updated version of the documentary film "Out of the Depths: The Miners' Story" (1984), which was broadcast on PBS in 1988 as part of the series "A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers." The film uses interviews with coal miners, their families, and historians to tell the story of life as a coal miner and in the coal camps in Colorado in the early 20th century. A significant portion of the film centers on the working conditions, unions, and strikes, culminating in the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.
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