The Last Mountain

Name: The Last Mountain
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 3, 2011
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 62

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Dada Films | Release Date: June 3, 2011 | PG

Summary: A passionate and personal tale that honors the extraordinary power of ordinary Americans who fight for what they believe in, The Last Mountain shines a light on America’s energy needs and how those needs are being supplied. It is a fight for our future that affects us all. (DADA Films)

Director: Bill Haney

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 95 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jun 2, 2011

If Mr. Haney sometimes struggles to find focus, he has no trouble locating heroes, including the doggedly energetic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a slew of stalwart locals and fearless outsiders. And the black heart of coal country - and, as the film shows, our national energy debate - has never seemed so in need of white knights. Read full review

James Greenberg

May 29, 2011

The Last Mountain makes a powerful case against the coal mining industry in West Virginia. Films like this are largely preaching to the choir -- opponents are unlikely to go near it. But its importance cannot be underestimated. Read full review

Jennie Punter

Jul 21, 2011

For the most part he (Haney) lets the people and images of Coal River Valley speak for themselves – and that's what gives The Last Mountain its eloquent power. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Jun 8, 2011

The movie's power is undercut by the overemphasized presence of celebrity traveling environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

May 30, 2011

Haney's movie is not great cinema, nor was meant to be, but as an introduction to one of the myriad dangers threatening our earth, it serves its cause well enough. And that, after all, is the whole point. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Jul 14, 2011

Provides lots of good information for newcomers to the cause. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jun 3, 2011

Appalachian mountains get blown up to extract coal in the documentary The Last Mountain, a film in which activists are at least as hot as the TNT. Read full review

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Jun 18, 2011

A vitally important (and, to my surprise, a reasonably well-done) movie. It's too bad that more people won't see it, and that the NY Times and LA Times sent their 3rd string critics in to review it. (The New York Post, of course, sent in their resident hit man, but ...[bleep]). Of course,A vitally important (and, to my surprise, a reasonably well-done) movie. It's too bad that more people won't see it, and that the NY Times and LA Times sent their 3rd string critics in to review it. (The New York Post, of course, sent in their resident hit man, but ...[bleep]). Of course, the movie is rather one-sided (how could it be otherwise? the opposing position is at least presented, albeit half-heartedly) and too much attention is given to Robert Kennedy, Jr. (though he IS an articulate, convincing spokesperson), but these are minor quibbles in a movie that shines such a compelling light on this generally overlooked and under-reported issue.… Expand

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Biff

Dec 14, 2011

If you're a progressive liberal, you'll love this movie. Corporate greed, evil republicans, global warming, "renewable energy", it's all there. This movie is more full of holes than a backstop at a shooting range. Near the beginning a resident blames upsteam coal mining operations whenIf you're a progressive liberal, you'll love this movie. Corporate greed, evil republicans, global warming, "renewable energy", it's all there. This movie is more full of holes than a backstop at a shooting range. Near the beginning a resident blames upsteam coal mining operations when her property was flooded and she even admitted that it rained 4 inches in 4 hours! In steep sided terrain like that, she is lucky she didn't drown, no matter what was happening upstream! Still, the culprit was the mountain top miners. A local complainer wipes a little coal dust off the side of a school building and complains that that is what the kids are breathing. Hasn't he ever heard of using air filters and a proper HVAC system? A woman reports that 6 residents who live side by side have either died or are living with brain tumors. Now that is scary, but why hasn't this report found a follow up with the CDC and made national attention? Bobby Kennedy Jr. touts "renewable energy" (wind turbines) whenever he can. He doesn't seem to understand that it is a heavily subsidized gift from Barack Obama that wouldn't survive on it's own profitability. I know that profitability is a bad word among liberals, but someone has to pay. And right now, coal is far and away the most economic source of energy. Nuclear is good, but doesn't find any support in the movie. Also, Bobby and his crew don't seem to have heard the news that the IPCC itself has exposed themselves as frauds through leaked emails. As the gatekeepers and prophets for the global warming crowd, they have given themselves away. I guess Bobby doesn't read the papers much. (or rather use the internet. Newspapers tend to keep news like that to themselves) The movie attempts to show that labor unions have been victimized by corporations. Seems to me to be the other way around. Labor unions (public employee unions in particular---read SEIU) rob the employees to pay the politicians who make the laws which keep them fat and happy. Ask Richard Trumka. Much of the film shows the ridiculous lengths activists will go to to delay the inevitable march of free market capitalism by a week or two. Hanging suspended in thin trees. I hope they had fun!

All in all, this film was a useful review of the progressive tactics which the left uses to try to manipulate people's emotions and then their vote. I suggest that everyone should see it with an open mind. I did.… Expand

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