Coal Rush (2012)

Coal Rush is a documentary-film that takes place in West Virginia, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world heavily relying on fossil fuels that come with a hefty price for society. The film, bringing to light one of the worst yet least publicized US industrial contamination disasters, focuses on courageous Appalachians who fight to defend their human right to clean water - and persevere in their quest for truth and justice. Coal rush dramatizes the human and societal costs a country faces when it relies on cheap energy, and rings an alarm bell on the environmental hazards potentially affecting any of us - rural or urban.