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Before the Mountain Was Moved is a 1970 American documentary film produced by Robert K. Sharpe.[1]

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  1. 27 relations: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Academy Awards, Acre, Act of God, Aerial seeding, AmeriCorps VISTA, Appalachian Volunteers, Charleston, West Virginia, Clear Fork, West Virginia, Crayfish, Deforestation, Documentary film, Landslide, License, Minnow, Mountaintop removal mining, Office of Economic Opportunity, Raleigh County, West Virginia, Robert K. Sharpe, Sergeant Major of the Army, Surface mining, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Surface mining reclamation in West Virginia, Testimony, The New York Times, West Virginia State Capitol, 42nd Academy Awards.

  2. 1970 documentary films
  3. Documentary films about West Virginia
  4. Documentary films about coal in the United States

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

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Act of God

In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident") is an event caused by no direct human action (e.g. severe or extreme weather and other natural disasters) for which individual persons are not responsible and cannot be held legally liable for loss of life, injury, or property damage.

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Aerial seeding

Aerial seeding is a technique of sowing seeds by spraying them through aerial mechanical means such as a drone, plane or helicopter.

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AmeriCorps VISTA

AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty.

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Appalachian Volunteers

Appalachian Volunteers (AV) was a non-profit organization engaged in community development projects in central Appalachia that evolved into a controversial community organizing network, with a reputation that went "from self-help to sedition" as its staff developed from "reformers to radicals," teaching things from Marx, Lenin and Mao, in the words of one historian, in the brief period between 1964 and 1970 during the War on Poverty.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the county seat of Kanawha County.

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Clear Fork, West Virginia

Clear Fork is an unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States, along the Clear Fork.

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Crayfish

Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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License

A license (US) or licence (Commonwealth) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).

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Minnow

Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the family Cyprinidae and in particular the subfamily Leuciscinae.

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Mountaintop removal mining

Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain.

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Office of Economic Opportunity

The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda.

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Raleigh County, West Virginia

Raleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Robert K. Sharpe

Robert K. Sharpe (19302016) was an American TV and film director, who produced the film Before the Mountain Was Moved, which was nominated for as Best Documentary Feature in the 1970 Academy Awards.

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Sergeant Major of the Army

The sergeant major of the Army (SMA) is a unique non-commissioned rank and position of office in the United States Army.

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Surface mining

Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral is removed through shafts or tunnels.

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Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.

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Surface mining reclamation in West Virginia

Surface Mining is done all over the United States and this causes growing concerns about the impact on the environment.

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Testimony

Testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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West Virginia State Capitol

The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia.

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42nd Academy Awards

The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

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See also

1970 documentary films

Documentary films about West Virginia

Documentary films about coal in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Mountain_Was_Moved