Bradley book, Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America ... on acquisition rights for a Universal movie. The book documents the 1969 triple ...

But the stranglehold that “king coal” — a totemic name that Sheldon gives to coal mining as a business — has had over the region is only a few hundred years old. Sheldon has made a career ...

If “King Coal” neglects sharing brochure-ready details of what coal-mining does to the environment ... a relationship the movie understands is complicated, inherently beautiful and a touch ...

KING COAL is a hauntingly-beautiful ... But that economic benefit has come at a high cost in human life, from mine collapses to the black-lung, and in the destruction of the very mountain landscape ...