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This EPIX documentary series explores the most provocative news headlines and cultural topics affecting our country. In this Season 2 episode, actor Nick Offerman travels to the coal country of eastern Kentucky to investigate the looming collapse of the coal industry and explore its legacy. While there he meets the rising voices calling for a different future.
This EPIX documentary series explores the most provocative news headlines and cultural topics affecting our country. In this Season 2 episode, actor Nick Offerman travels to the coal country of eastern Kentucky to investigate the looming collapse of the coal industry and explore its legacy. While there he meets the rising voices calling for a different future.
Nick Offerman in Coal Country
Nick visits the theater group Higher Ground, which uses local oral histories to tell the stories of Appalachia and its people. He is impressed and moved by the performers and even takes part in a scene himself.
directed by Lucian Reed