Coal, Earth, Home

Robert Harding Pittman
Germany/US/Spain, documentary, 2005
40 mins. (MiniDV)

The 750 year old village of Heversdorf, located on the edge of an open pit coal mine in Eastern Germany, is fighting for life. A multinational company demands the coal located underneath its homes to fuel its power plant. What is the value of home in the face of "progress"?