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В роли: Self - Narrator (голос)

James Robert Green
В роли: Self - Professor of History

Doug Estepp
В роли: Self - Local Historian, West Virginia

Rosemary Feurer
В роли: Self - Associate Professor and Lead Historian for the Mother Jones Museum

Thomas G. Andrews
В роли: Self - Professor of History and Author of 'Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War'

Denise Giardina
В роли: Self - Novelist

Beverly Gage
В роли: Self - Professor of 20th-Century American History, Yale University

Joe William Trotter Jr.
В роли: Self - Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University

Rebecca J. Bailey
В роли: Self - Historian, Northern Kentucky University

C. Belmont Keeney
В роли: Self - Historian (как Chuck Keeney)

Ellis Ray Williams
В роли: Self - Former Coal Miner

Jean Battlo
В роли: Self - Local Historian, West Virginia

Carl Starr
В роли: Self - Former Coal Miner

Ronald L. Lewis
В роли: Self - Historian, Department of History, West Virginia University

John Alexander Williams
В роли: Self - Professor of History, Appalachian State University

David Alan Corbin
В роли: Self - Author of 'Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars'

John Hennen
В роли: Self - Professor, Morehead State University

Paul H. Rakes
В роли: Self - Professor, West Virginia University

William Sidney Hatfield
В роли: Self - Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia (хроника) (как Sid Hatfield)

Billy Mitchell
В роли: Self - Deputy Director of the US Air Service (хроника)

Harry Hill Bandholtz
В роли: Self - US Army General (хроника) (как General Bandholtz)