Buffalo Creek revisited

Directed by: Mimi Pickering 1984 Running Time: 31:00 Color. Filmed ten years after the February 1972 failure of Buffalo Creek coal waste dam, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources. Through the statements of survivors, planners, politicians, psychologists, and community activists, the film explores the psychology of disaster, the importance of community, and the paradox of a poor people living in a rich land. [Appalshop abstract]