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A Beast Touch the Mountain (2025)
A Beast Touch the Mountain (2025)
Overview
A Beast Touch the Mountain is a 2025 documentary directed by James Mottern that follows Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Virginia, as they resist the Mountain Valley Pipeline project threatening their land and water. Featuring activists Red Terry, Minor Terry, Emily Satterwhite, and Mary Beth Coffey, the film documents their grassroots efforts amid the region's natural beauty.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
A Beast Touch the Mountain is a 2025 documentary directed by James Mottern that follows Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Virginia, as they resist the Mountain Valley Pipeline project threatening their land and water. Featuring activists Red Terry, Minor Terry, Emily Satterwhite, and Mary Beth Coffey, the film documents their grassroots efforts amid the region's natural beauty.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The documentary examines the decade-long struggle of Appalachian women against a natural gas pipeline, portraying corporate exploitation and governmental favoritism toward powerful interests as profound threats to land and communities. This narrative of grassroots resistance against systemic inequities underscores progressive critiques of environmental and social injustices.
The documentary centers on white Appalachian women resisting a corporate pipeline project, portraying their activism as a stand against exploitative power structures. It subtly addresses equity through community empowerment but lacks explicit critiques of traditional racial or gender identities.
Secondary
The documentary portrays LGBTQ+ individuals incidentally as part of the broader coalition of activists opposing the Mountain Valley Pipeline, emphasizing their contributions to the environmental fight in a respectful but non-central manner.
The documentary highlights community solidarity and incidental family connections, like a mother-daughter activist pair, amid efforts to protect land and way of life, but does not centrally depict or evaluate family structures or norms. This peripheral treatment results in a neutral stance on family values.
The documentary invokes a passage from Hebrews to portray the Appalachian mountain as sacred territory akin to Mount Sinai, underscoring the activists' environmental resistance as an act of stewardship over God's creation.
The film contains no depiction of transgender characters or themes. It documents the fight by women in Bent Mountain, Virginia, against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, highlighting community activism and environmental justice.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This documentary features real-life Appalachian women activists portraying themselves in their fight against a gas pipeline, with no adaptations or recasting of established characters from prior sources, thus containing no gender swaps.
This documentary features real Appalachian women appearing as themselves in footage of their fight against a gas pipeline, with no fictional characters, adaptations, or actors portraying historical figures of differing races.
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