Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)

Mimi Pickering is a documentarian whose work covers social issues of Appalachia. This documentary investigates the 1972 coal waste dam disaster that flooded a surrounding southern West Virginia with water and sludge, killing 125 and leaving thousands homeless.

Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man was added to the National Film Registry in 2005.

 

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