Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where coal is king, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find themselves at the center of a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine.

ketlogoThe broadcast premiere of Deep Down was Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd, 10:00pm EST on KET.
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VIRTUAL MINE

See for yourself! Explore a virtual mountaintop removal coal mine and play a game in our 3D mine game in Second Life. Check out the Virtual Mine >

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DEEP DOWN is funded in part by the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Its public television station partner is Kentucky Educational Television. Our national outreach partner is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and our major regional partner is the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC).

 

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Deep Down participates in REEL Engagement Workshop

The Deep Down team were proud to be among a group of environmental filmmakers recently gathered in Bolinas and Berkley, California to collaborate on the powerful art of storytelling as a tool to create change at the grassroots and national levels for a clean energy future.

The five day retreat, “Reel Engagement for the Energy and Natural Resource Revolution”  was sponsored by the Fledgling FundChicken and Egg Pictures, and Working Films to bring together films from around that world that collectively tell the story of extractive industries, dirty fuels, and the catastrophic impacts of global climate change while offering narratives of hope for a people-powered clean energy revolution.

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