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- WESTVIRGINIAVILLE: How did you come to journalism and what was your interest in crafting a documentary such as “Moundsville”? JOHN W. MILLER: I grew up in Belgium, where my parents from Maryland dropped an anchor after backpacking through Europe in the summer of 1976.
- WV: What was the original impetus behind wishing to do a documentary on a small town in West Virginia? What were some of the compelling reasons why you wished to study the story—the history, the current state of the town and beyond—of Moundsville?
- WV: What did you learn about the town—and maybe about small-town life and the realities of life in a sometimes struggling town—that you did not know before your deep dive into the place?
- WV: There is a long-running discourse on the future of West Virginia and life in more rural places—out-migration. Young people leaving. An economy dependent on the fading industry of coal-mining and the only transitional industry of fracking.
Directed by David Bernabo and John W. Miller (2018). This is the 2020 edit for PBS."An Appalachian Saga That Is Different From Most You’ve Already Heard…. Th...
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This 2011 summer blockbuster starring Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler filmed scenes at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport and in the Northern Panhandle towns of Weirton, New Cumberland, New Manchester and Follansbee. Most of the filming sites are open to the public, including DeStefano’s Spaghetti House & Restaurant and the Marland Heights Deli, which...
Based on the novel “Rocket Boys” by West Virginia native Homer Hickam, 1999’s “October Sky” recounts Homer’s teenage years in a coal mining community in the early 1960s. The first Sputnik launch inspires Homer, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, and his friends to take up rocketry. The movie was filmed out of state, but you can visit Coalwood, where the bo...
This 2003 romantic comedy starring Josh Duhamel and Kate Bosworth filmed in Fayetteville, Grandviewand at the London Locks on the Kanawha River. The movie is about a small-town girl who wins a date with a celebrity, which leads to a love triangle between the 2 of them and the girl’s best friend. The town in the movie, Fraziers Bottom, was inspired ...
Filmed in Moundsville, Sistersville and New Martinsville, this 1955 film noir boasts yet another West Virginia connection: the story, drawn from a novel written by Moundsville native Davis Grubb, revolves around Harry Powell, a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who sets out to rob a widow of $10,000 that her executed husband hid away. Robert Mi...
This 1978 Academy Award-winning film starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep was filmed partly in the Northern Panhandle cities of Weirton and Follansbee. It’s about a group of men who work in a steel mill. They hang out at the local bar and spend their weekends hunting deer— until the Vietnam War changes them forever.
In this 2001 movie, Russell Crowe plays Bluefield native John Nash Jr., the brilliant mathematician who struggled with mental illness but went on to win the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory.
This 1998 Robin Williams movie tells the real-life story of Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, a physician, comedian and social activist who founded the Gesundheit! Institute‚ a holistic health care facility, in Pocahontas Countyin 1971. Dr. Adams organizes a group of volunteers who travel the world dressed as clowns to bring humor to orphans, patients and ...
May 29, 2018 · Moundsville, directed by David Bernabo and John W. Miller -- screened on PBS 2020-2023 and now available for free on YouTube -- is the biography of a classic American town, Moundsville, WV (pop. 4,500), on the Ohio River, where Appalachia hits the Midwest. Told through the voices of residents, the film diverts from the well-trod
Apr 6, 2022 · The film doesn’t rely on live action, archive footage, or process footage, although we occasionally hear one of the directors ask a follow-up question. The strength of the documentary lies in the interviews, filmed on location and featuring real Moundsville residents, many of whom are middle-aged and older long-term residents.
May 28, 2020 · The movie touches on some wider societal trends that are clearly not good that Moundsville is not responsible for, which I think have colored the film in a negative light for some people: 1. Industrial decline: The closing of factories, as companies fell apart for all kinds of reasons, or moved elsewhere in America, and to Asia and Mexico to make goods more cheaply for companies like WalMart.
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Mar 10, 2019 · The movie is called Moundsville, ... The film is a little over an hour long, and it builds slowly from its economic-shock premise to an ending that is surprising on many levels. (The end involves ...
