WVFILM » Blog Archive » Matewan Before the Massacre - the ... came to West Virginia in 1983 to start making his long-planned film on “The Matewan Massacre.” The film that was finally finished and released in 1987 is probably the most important cultural event in the history of the state. ...
A Blog of One’s Own » “Matewan” and Reagan areed on 11 Nov 2008 06:14 pm. Again… really liked the movie and enjoyed the side movie debate. But I thought I would share this. Link. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story… It is about Reagan and the air-traffic controllers’ strike ...
» Matewan Eweaver’s UMW Blog Matewan is an interesting movie. From our study and discussion it is apparent that it is one of the most historically accurate of the films we have seen thus far. It does however revolve around two completely fictional characters, ...
Thoughts from Julie Bean » Matewan…yawn jboyl5av on Oct 29th 2008. For one of the first times this semester, I watched the film before the lecture on historical content. My impression? Matewan, as far as historical films go, was pretty acuarte to the events surrounding West ...
