A grim documentary about West Virginia coal mining’s lasting effect on its citizens, “Blood on the Mountain” is either a fortuitous exploration of industrial wrath or a too-soon understanding spotlight on certain voters, depending on how you’re handling last week’s election results. Using interviews, archival clips, and a timeline of headlines and news footage, it tells a tale of violent capitalism on the one hand, as the history of unforgiving company towns and hard-fought unionizing gave way to an environmentally devastated land of terrible poverty and health issues. It’s also a story of sheer injustice on the other, with workers’ rights being stripped away over the years as billions in profits went elsewhere. The movie is practically a textbook about how ravenous corporations and feckless government can strip-mine the souls of workers, and replace them with a political narrative about their problems that keeps reality forever hidden behind a fine, dusty fog. -------------‘Blood on the Mountain’Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutesNot ratedPlaying: Laemmle Town Center 5See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour »

Source: Los Angeles Times November 17, 2016 18:00 UTC