Title: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Content:  Best Video of the Year 2010, The American Library Association, Booklist Mountain Hero Award 2009, The Mountain Institute
Title: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Content:  Appalachia was selected as the "Top of the List 2010" by Booklist, and heralded by reviewer Candace Smith as a "sterling four-part series". She commented: "Beautifully shot and vast in scope, this stellar series combines science, history, and arts in a tribute to Appalachia that offers hope for the future." Diana Nelson Jones of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the series "engrossing and beautifully filmed and illustrated". Jones suggested that with enough viewers Appalachia "could be the beginning of a cure for society's malignant attitude about the region". Jeff Biggers of The Huffington Post stated "Appalachia takes viewers on a breakthrough journey through our nation's burning ground of discovery, colonization, industrial development, social revolutions, and cultural and artistic endeavors", lauding the 
Title: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Content:  as "a landmark event for television" that "transcends the usual media portraits of poverty, pity, depravity and the picturesque in America's most misunderstood and maligned region, and delivers a breathtaking view of Appalachia's extraordinary role in shaping our country." Steven Rosen of the Cincinnati CityBeat graded the series a C saying that it "takes way too long getting to the state of this region in the 20th and 21st centuries and then skims over critical material". "Instead, it allows a lot of romantic musings from several writers and scientists about the land". In a review in The Journal of Southern History, Mary Ella Engel praised Appalachia's "hypnotic storytelling", "sensory delight", and "smooth narration", dubbing it a "powerful and provocative 
Title: Appalachian studies
Content: Appalachia: A History. By John Alexander Williams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. ; Appalachia on Our Mind: the Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920. By Henry D. Shapiro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1978. ; Appalachia in the Making: the Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1995. ; Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present. Fifth Edition. Ed. by Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney. Kendall Hunt Publishers. 2007. ; Appalachians and Race: the Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation. Ed. by John C. Inscoe. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 
Title: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Content:  provides the perfect vehicle with which to express sorrow for the region's past and hope for Appalachia's future." Donald Edward Davis, Author of Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians referred to it as a "ground-breaking documentary", which "beautifully documents the environmental history of Appalachia, illustrating the many ways the mountain landscape has, for centuries, shaped the destinies of those who have called the region home." Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Ron Eller, commended filmmakers Jamie Ross and Ross Spears on "[producing] a new standard for documentary films about Appalachia and [providing] a new framework for understanding the mountains and our relationship to them", calling Appalachia "a truly powerful piece of work".
Title: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Content:  Most of the people featured in the series come from, or live in, the Appalachian region, including the narrator Sissy Spacek. Some of the other people featured include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, E. O. Wilson, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Coles, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Hudson, Denise Giardina, Mary Lee Settle, John Ehle, Sharyn McCrumb, and Gurney Norman.
Title: Appalachia
Content: Abramson, Rudy, and Haskell, Jean, editors (2006). Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee Press. ISBN: 1-57233-456-8 ; Becker, Jane S. Inventing Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930–1940 (1998). ; Davis, Donald Edward. Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians, 2000. ; Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment" Southern Spaces, July 16, 2008. ; Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia (2001) ; Eller, Ronald D. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 1982. ; Ford, Thomas R. ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. (1967), includes highly detailed statistics. ; 
Title: Appalachia
Content:  Andrew L., (ed.) (2010). Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ; Stewart, Bruce E. (ed.) (2012). Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ; Walls, David (1977). "On the Naming of Appalachia" An Appalachian Symposium. Edited by J. W. Williamson. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University Press. ; Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia: A History (2002) online edition ; Woodard, Colin American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) Woodard, Colin American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011)  
Title: Appalachia
Content:  Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880–1920 (1998) online edition ; Light, Melanie and Ken Light (2006). Coal Hollow. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0-520-24654-6 ; Noe, Kenneth W. and Shannon H. Wilson, Civil War in Appalachia (1997) ; Obermiller, Phillip J., Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker, editors (2000). Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN: 0-275-96851-0 ; Olson, Ted (1998). Blue Ridge Folklife. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN: 1-57806-023-0 ; Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds. Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. (1995). ; 
Title: Appalachian studies
Content:  F. Munn noted that “more nonsense has been written about the Southern Mountains than any comparable area in the United States.” He also observed that there was “distressingly little in the way of useful primary and secondary materials” available for historical research on Appalachia” (Munn 1966). Over the four decades since Munn’s comments, a wealth of excellent Appalachian scholarship has been published. Appalachian Studies is interdisciplinary, as befits the study of a complex and diverse region and people. Appalachian Studies includes such disciplines as history, literature, anthropology, music, religion, economics, education, environment, folklore and folk customs, labor issues, women's issues, ethnicity, health care, community organizing, economic development, coal mining, tourism, 

Question: What genre is Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People?
Answer: documentary film.
documentary movie.
doc.
film documentary.
motion picture documentary.
documentary.
factual film.